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Author Websdale, Neil.

Title Rural woman battering and the justice system : an ethnography / Neil Websdale.

Imprint Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1998.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  364.15553 W39r    ---  Available
Description xxxii, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Sage series on violence against women ; v. 6
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-250) and index.
Contents For batter or for worse -- Rural patriarchy, crime, and criminal justice -- Woman battering and criminal justice -- Policing rural woman battering -- Courting revictimization -- Regulating rural women -- Rural battering and social policies.
Subject Abused women -- Kentucky.
Rural women -- Kentucky -- Social conditions.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Kentucky.
ISBN 076190851X (hardcover : acid-free paper)
0761908528 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

 
    
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