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Author Garcia, Venessa.

Title Gendered justice : intimate partner violence and the criminal justice system / Venessa Garcia and Patrick McManimon.

Imprint Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  364.15553 G165g 2011    ---  Available
Description vi, 236 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Issues in crime & justice
Issues in crime & justice (Lanham, Md.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Gendered justice: the social construction of womanhood and intimate partner violence -- Understanding the scope of intimate partner violence -- Deconstructing cultural images and myths of intimate partner violence: overcoming the presence of the past -- Legal jurisprudence and the history of intimate partner violence -- Policing intimate partner violence -- Intimate partner violence in the courts -- Correcting intimate partner violence -- Escaping intimate partner violence: the shelter movement -- Reality reconsidered: female intimate partner violence victim images in society.
Subject Intimate partner violence.
Women -- Violence against.
Women -- Crimes against.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects.
Added Author McManimon, Patrick M.
ISBN 9780742566446 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0742566447 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780742566439 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742566439 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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