TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chalk, Rosemary
AU  - King,Patricia A.
TI  - Violence in families: assessing prevention and treatment programmes
SN  - 0309054966
U1  - 362.8292 VIO 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - National Academy Press
KW  - FVC
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - EVALUATION
KW  - FAMILY SERVICES
KW  - INTERVENTION
KW  - PROGRAMMES
KW  - SOCIAL SERVICES
KW  - PREVENTION
KW  - CHILD ABUSE
N2  - This American book examines the successes and failures of family violence interventions. It offers recommendations to guide services, programmes, policy, and research on victim support and assistance, treatments and penalties for offenders, and law enforcement. Includes an analysis of more than 70 evaluation studies on the outcomes of different kinds of programmes and services. Explores the scope and complexity of family violence, including identification of the multiple types of victims and offenders, who require different approaches to intervention. Outlines new strategies that offer promising approaches for social services providers and researchers and for improving the evaluation of prevention and treatment services. Discusses issues that underlie all types of family violence
ER  -