Gendered justice : intimate partner violence and the criminal justice system / Venessa Garcia and Patrick McManimon.
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
©2011.
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| Series: | Issues in crime & justice (Lanham, Md.)
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Table of 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.