Download or read book Legal Interventions in Family Violence written by Jeremy Travis and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains bottom lineÓ information on family violence from articles written by researchers about their own work or other researchers' work on subjects of immediate concern to practitioners: collaborative efforts between police & protection agencies, arrest policies, protection orders, battered women defense strategies, sentencing, batterer treatment, child sexual abuse, & children's testimony. Represents only those that relate specifically to how the criminal justice system addresses family violence. Includes sections on legal interventions in child maltreatment cases, elder abuse cases, & domestic violence cases.