Policing Domestic Abuse: Risk, Policy, and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780367684150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 248 str.

Ruth Weir

Opis

This book explores the policing of domestic abuse, looking at the history, law, social responses and problems relating to the crime and the challenges faced by the police and other criminal justice agencies in victim identification, understanding risk and ensuring protection from harm.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. What is domestic abuse?; 3. Measuring the extent of domestic abuse; 4. Assessing risk; 5. The law, policing policy, and the courts; 6. Victims; 7 Perpetrators; 8.Coordinated solutions to domestic abuse; 9. Policing domestic abuse within the organisation, 10. Policing domestic abuse – reflections and new directions.