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Family Violence and Police Response: Learning From Research, Policy and Practice in European Countries
Police response to incidents of intimate partner violence can be critical. This volume investigates the elements in the institutional, legal and organizational context that are relevant for police response to incidents in the realm of the private sphere and whether there exists a relation with the reporting of such incidents by victims.
| Author(s) | Edited by Marijke Malsch, Wilma Smeenk. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 276 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 28 Jun 2005 |
| Availability | POD |
Police response to incidents of intimate partner violence can be critical. This volume investigates the elements in the institutional, legal and organizational context that are relevant for police response to incidents in the realm of the private sphere and whether there exists a relation with the reporting of such incidents by victims.
Contents: Foreword, Betsy Stanko; Introduction, Wilma Smeenk and Marijke Malsch; Challenges of surveying violence against women: development of research methods, Natalia Ollus and Sami Nevala; Critical issues related to the measurement of intimate partner
Wilma Smeenk is Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), The Netherlands. She studied sociology at the University of Nijmegen and received her doctor's degree with a dissertation about family format
