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Violent partners
a breakthrough plan for ending the cycle of abuse
By Mills, Linda G.
- ISBN
- 978-0-46504-577-8
- Publisher
- New York : Basic Books, c2008.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2008
From the establishment of the first shelter (1974) to the passage of the Violence Against Women Act (1994), domestic violence has become a more visible social problem. Mills, a lawyer and social worker who founded the Center on Violence and Recovery at New York University, raises the question of whether the resulting criminalization of domestic violence has actually made America safer. She concludes that it has not and marshals an impressive array of ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
