NCJ Number
94637
Journal
Police Studies Volume: 7 Issue: 2 Dated: (Summer 1984) Pages: 84-93
Date Published
1984
Length
10 pages
Annotation
A questionnaire sent to a national sample of 1,000 battered wives indicates that violent families with which the police became involved were more likely than the other families in the study to have one or both spouses in lower class occupations, to be seriously violent, to have husbands who drink heavily and who may be part of a masculine subculture of violence, and to be lower in stability and wife's satisfaction.
Abstract
The author points out that the effectiveness of the police, as compared with other formal help-sources serving battered wives is limited by the nature of the service offered, the point at which the intervention occurs, the goals of the service organization, and the characteristics of the families with which the police become involved. (Publisher abstract)