TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ptacek, James
TI  - Battered women in the courtroom: the power of judicial responses
SN  - 1-55553-390-6
U1  - 345.73 PTA 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Boston, MA : 
PB  - Northeastern University Press, 
KW  - ABUSED WOMEN
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - JUSTICE
KW  - PROTECTION ORDERS
KW  - UNITED STATES
N2  - This book explores the ways in which judges (in the US) respond to women who are seeking legal redress. This investigation of women, violence and the courts centres on encounters between women and judges in restraining order hearings in Massachusetts, one of the first states in the US to offer new civil and criminal options to victims of abusive behaviour. (From the back cover). Record #5026
ER  -