
@article{ref1,
title="Police responses to wife beating: Neglect of a crime of violence",
journal="Journal of criminal justice",
year="1984",
author="Brown, Stephen E.",
volume="12",
number="3",
pages="277-288",
abstract="Data were collected from women seeking admission to a spouse abuse shelter in a small southern city. The questionnaire which they completed requested demographics and a wide variety of attitudinal data. The paper reports an analysis of the women's perceptions of police responses to their victimization, their feelings towards self, and their willingness to pursue mobilization of the law in their own behalf. It was reported that the police rarely made referrals to helping agencies and that the most common police action was to<p />",
language="",
issn="0047-2352",
doi="10.1016/0047-2352(84)90074-6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0047-2352(84)90074-6"
}