The federal response to domestic violence : a report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

The federal response to domestic violence : a report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

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Imprint:Washington, D.C. : United States Commission on Civil Rights, [1982]
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 173 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Abused women -- Services for -- United States.
Social work with women -- United States.
Social Work.
Spouse Abuse -- prevention & control.
Women.
Abused wives -- Services for.
Social work with women.
Wife abuse -- Prevention.
United States.
United States.
Format: E-Resource U.S. Federal Government Document Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11058479
Related Items:Print version: Federal response to domestic violence.
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Other authors / contributors:United States Commission on Civil Rights, issuing body.
Mott-McDonald Associates, performing organization.
Notes:"January 1982."
"Prepared under contract to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights by Mott-McDonald Associates, Inc."--Acknowledgments, page vii.
Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource viewed June 7, 2017.
Summary:"This report, as well as prior Commission reports, focuses on female victims for several reasons. The incidence of abuse of women by men is much greater than the abuse of men by women. Women are, as a group, more likely to be economically dependent upon their spouses and therefore unable to escape an abusive relationship without protection from the legal system and support from various service organizations. Finally, the common law legacy of women as objects of property and as incompetents unable to conduct their own legal affairs continues to color the attitudes of police officers, prosecutors, judges, and providers of social services needed by battered women"--Footnote 2, Preface, page iv.
Other form:Print version: Federal response to domestic violence. Washington, D.C. : The Commission, 1982
GPO item no.:288-A
Govt.docs classification:CR 1.2:D 71

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