BATTERED WIVES AND THE POLICE: A NATIONAL STUDY OF USAGE AND
01 January 1991
BATTERED WIVES AND THE POLICE: A NATIONAL STUDY OF USAGE AND
EFFECTIVENESS
refdoc July=1991
JOURNAL ARTICLE , User Ref = 005349
L H Bowker, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Police Stud, Summer 1984 7(2) pp84-93
A questionnaire survey of a sample of 1,000 American
battered wives shows that families with which the police
became involved were more likely than those which did not
to have one or both spouses in lower class occupations, to
be seriously violent, to have husbands who drink heavily,
and to be generally less stable. Concludes that effectiveness
of the police compared with other sources of help is limited
by the nature of the service offered, the point of
intervention and other factors. 28 references
United States, crime
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