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While there is an evident trend towards increasing legal responses to wife assault in North America, any change that has occurred has met with controversy, and the challenge remains to improve the circumstances of battered women.
This book offers in-depth coverage of four major themes that address this issue: the historical framework of legal responses to wife assault; police attitudes and action; prosecution, mediation and treatment within the court system; and victims as defendants and participants in the legal system. Each chapter examines past and present policies of a specific branch of the legal system, and discusses their merits and demerits.
List of contents
PART ONE: OVERVIEW
Introduction - N Zoe Hilton
Husbands Who Assault - Daniel G Saunders
Multiple Profiles Requiring Multiple Responses
PART TWO: POLICE
Police Intervention and Public Opinion - N Zoe Hilton
The Impact of Police Laying Charges - Peter G Jaffe et al
Irreconcilable Differences - Kathleen J Ferraro and Lucille Pope
Battered Women, Police, and the Law
PART THREE: COURTS
The Criminal Prosecution of Wife Assaulters - David A Ford and Mary Jean Regoli
Process, Problems, and Effects
Family Courts, Marital Conflict Mediation, and Wife Assault - Desmond Ellis
Court-Mandated Treatment of Men Who Assault Their Partner - L Kevin Hamberger and James E Hastings
Issues, Controversies, and Outcomes
PART FOUR: VICTIMS
Battered Women as Defendants - Lenore E A Walker
Self-Defense Jury Instructions in Trials of Battered Women Who Kill Their Partner - Alan J Tomkins et al
PART FIVE: SUMMARY
Legal Responses to Wife Assault - Ronald Roesch, Stephen D Hart and Laurene J Wilson
Future Prospects for Intervention and Evaluation
Summary
While there is an evident trend towards increasing legal responses to wife assault in North America, any change that has occurred has met with controversy, and the challenge remains to improve the circumstances of battered women. This book offers in-depth coverage of four major themes that address this issue: the historical framework of legal responses to wife assault; police attitudes and action; prosecution, mediation and treatment within the court system; and victims as defendants and participants in the legal system. Each chapter examines past and present policies of a specific branch of the legal system, and discusses their merits and demerits.
