Legal System, Criminal Justice System Responses to Intimate Partner Violence

The criminalization of intimate partner violence reflects both society's intolerance for domestic violence and a belief that holding batterers legally accountable will protect women from physical abuse. As early as 1641, the Massachusetts Bay Colony legislated against wife-beating in ...

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