Legal Interventions in Family Violence: Research Findings and Policy Implications

Legal Interventions in Family Violence: Research Findings and Policy Implications contains "bottom line" information from articles written by researchers about their own work or in several instances about other researchers' work on subjects of immediate concern to practitioners: collaborative efforts between police and protection agencies, arrest policies, protection orders, battered women defense strategies, sentencing, batterer treatment, child sexual abuse, and children's testimony. The studies summarized in this publication represent only those that relate specifically to how the criminal justice system addresses family violence. Other aspects of family violence, such as those associated with custody and divorce proceedings are not included.