Probation Attitudes to Battered Women: Apathy, Error and Avoidance?

In: Probation journal: the journal of community and criminal justice, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 132-134

Abstract

A survey of probation officers' work with marital violence suggests insufficient attention, sexist assumptions and inappropriate action prevail. The author considers alternative ways of confronting male aggression being developed in the United States.