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BATTERED WOMEN, THE POLICE AND THE CRIMINAL LAW:

01 January 1991

BATTERED WOMEN, THE POLICE AND THE CRIMINAL LAW:
PAPER PRESENTED TO THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
CONFERENCE IN 1979 refdoc August=1991

BOOKS/PAMPHLETS , User Ref = P60542 , Acc Date = 01-Nov-86
L Jeffery , J Pahl
BSA, 1979 31pp RP60542A

Analyses the response of the police to incidents of domestic
violence, looking at the problem of battered women and the
functions of the police and the criminal law. Investigates the
use of discretion by public officials and the different roles
open to the police. Comments that, in recent years, awareness of
the traditional disinclination of the police to become involved
in incidents of marital violence has been parallelled by an
inability to determine how the civil and criminal law might
contribute to a solution of the problems facing battered women.
Looks at a survey, carried out at a Women's Aid refuge, of women
who had two children and had stayed at the refuge for at least
four days. The interviews included questions on whether they had
been physically attacked or abused and the help that the police
gave them. Provides some findings of a police records study which
was carried out in one constabulary in the east of England.

United Kingdom, crime, marriage, privacy, law enforcement,
marital violence, assault, domestic dispute, husband, offence,
Offences Against the Persons Act 1861, reconciliation
marital status

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