Domestic Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Protection, Prevention and Intervention

This book presents a variety of socio—legal perspectives on issues of domestic violence and abuse. Focussing on contemporary research and practice developments in policing, law, statutory and voluntary sectors, the contributors to this volume cover a vast spectrum of initiatives and professional expertise concerned variably with protection, prevention and intervention priorities.

The challenges of “joined up” thinking across these perspectives are apparent as the varied definitions, under...