Protecting victims of intimate partner violence: Swedish prosecutors’ experiences of decision-making regarding restraining orders
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[Psychopathological characteristics of female victims of intimate partner violence].
Psychopathological characteristics of female victims of intimate partner violence. Intimate partner violence has caused much social alarm. Knowing the characteristics and problems of the female victims of this type of violence is necessary to be able to provide adequate psychological attention. This is the purpose of the present study. We studied a sample of 212 women who had been exposed to a ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1404-3858,1651-2340
DOI: 10.1080/14043858.2018.1450547