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

This new edition of the bestselling Responding to Domestic Violence explores the response to domestic violence today, not only by the criminal justice system, but also by public and non-profit social service and health care agencies. After providing a brief theoretical overview of the causes of domestic violence and its prevalence in our society, 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. In addition, this edition provides an in-depth discussion of the concept of coercive control in domestic violence and its importance in understanding victim needs. Finally, this volume includes international perspectives in order to broaden the reader′s understanding of alternative responses to the problem of domestic violence.

• Why Battered Women Stay: It Could Happen to Anyone
• Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings on Race, Class, Gender, and Culture
• The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America
• Violence: The Enduring Problem
• Unsafe in the Ivory Tower: The Sexual Victimization of College Women
• Sexual Offenses and Offenders: Theory, Practice, and Policy
• Juvenile Delinquency: Theory, Practice, and Law
• Criminal Procedure for the Criminal Justice Professional
• Criminal Procedure: Law and Practice
• Criminological Theory: Past to Present: Essential Readings