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Insult to Injury : Rethinking our Responses to Intimate Abuse /

Locking up men who beat their partners sounds like a tremendous improvement over the days when men could hit women with impunity and women fearing for their lives could expect no help from authorities. But does our system of requiring the arrest, prosecution, and incarceration of abusers lessen dome...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mills, Linda G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Giving Thanks
  • Prologue
  • PART I: Rethinking Our Responses to Intimate Abuse
  • One: The Ground Zero of Intimate Abuse
  • Two: Mandatory Policies as Crime Reduction Strategies: Do They Work?
  • Three: Power over Women in Abusive Relationships
  • Four: Are Women as Aggressive as Men?
  • PART II: Fixing the Failures
  • Five: The Dynamic of Intimate Abuse
  • Six: Changing the System
  • Seven: Learning to Listen to Narratives of Intimate Abuse
  • Eight: A Better Way.