Responding to Domestic Violence: The Integration of Criminal Justice and Human Services / Edition 4

Responding to Domestic Violence: The Integration of Criminal Justice and Human Services / Edition 4

ISBN-10:
1412956390
ISBN-13:
9781412956390
Pub. Date:
01/28/2011
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
ISBN-10:
1412956390
ISBN-13:
9781412956390
Pub. Date:
01/28/2011
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Responding to Domestic Violence: The Integration of Criminal Justice and Human Services / Edition 4

Responding to Domestic Violence: The Integration of Criminal Justice and Human Services / Edition 4

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Overview

This new edition of the authors' best-selling text explores the response to domestic violence today, not only by the criminal justice system, but also by social service and health care agencies. After providing a brief theoretical overview of the causes of domestic violence and its prevalence in our society and its causes, the authors cover such key topics as barriers to intervention, variations in arrest practices, the role of state and federal legislation, and case prosecution. Focusing on both victims and offenders, the book includes unique chapters on models for judicial intervention, domestic violence and health, and children and domestic violence.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781412956390
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 01/28/2011
Edition description: Fourth Edition
Pages: 496
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Eve Buzawa, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita in the School of Criminology & Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She served as Chair of the School from 1995 – 2013, and Director of the School from September, 2013-June, 2016 when she retired. Dr. Buzawa received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Rochester and her Master's and Doctoral degrees from the School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University. Dr. Buzawa has authored and edited numerous books, journal articles, and monographs in the field of domestic violence. She has also served as a Principal Investigator on several federally funded research projects as well as directing numerous state funded research and training projects.

Dr. Buzawa’s expertise encompasses the issue of domestic violence in the United States and globally. She has served as a consultant, trainer, and speaker to numerous agencies and organizations throughout the world and was the recipient of a Fulbright Award in 2016. Dr. Buzawa is Past President of the Society of Police and Criminal Psychology, Past President of the Northeast Association of Criminal Justice Sciences, and past Board Member for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Carl G. Buzawa is an attorney in private practice. Currently, he is Senior Vice President—Contracts, Legal, and Compliance at Textron Systems. He received his BA from the University of Rochester, his MA from the University of Michigan, and his JD from Harvard Law School. With Eve S. Buzawa, he is the coauthor of numerous books and articles on the topic of domestic violence.

Evan Stark is a sociologist, forensic social worker and award-winning researcher with an international reputation for his innovative work on the legal, policy and health dimensions of interpersonal violence, including its effects on children. Dr. Stark’s award-winning book, Coercive Control: The Entrapment of Women in Personal Life (Oxford, 2007), was named the outstanding social science book published in 2007 by the Association of American Publishers and influenced the United Kingdom and other countries in Europe to expand their definitions of domestic violence to include coercive control. With a Ph.D......University, he is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University where he held appointments in Public Affairs, Public Health and Women and Gender Studies. Dr. Stark has held visiting appointments and Fellowships at the University of Essex, the University of Bristol, the Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios (ESEN) in El Salvador and, most recently, as the. Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Since his retirement, Dr. Stark has done extensive work on imporiving the response to abuse women in Turkey, as part of the State Department's "U.S. Speaker and Specialist Program" as well as in Serbia, Taiwan and throughout the United Kingdom.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Role and Context of Agency Responses to Domestic Violence
2. Scope of the Problem: Defining and Measuring Domestic Violence
3. Matters of History, Faith and Society
4. Theoretical Explanations for Domestic Violence
5. Selective Screening: Barriers to Intervention
6. The Impetus for Change
7. The Evolution of Arrest Preferences: Criminalizing the Social Response
8. Variations in Arrest Practices
9. The Role of State and Federal Legislation
10. Case Prosecution: The Journey from Road Block to Change Agents
11. Civil Courts and the Role of Restraining Orders
12. Models for Judicial Intervention
13. Community Based and Court Sponsored Diversion
14. Domestic Violence and Health
15. Children and Domestic Violence
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