"It was do or die" : how a woman's experience of domestic abuse can influence her involvement in crime : a qualitative investigation of the experiences of community-based female offenders

Female offenders are far more likely to have experienced domestic abuse than the general female population. Yet despite wide acknowledgement of a relationship between domestic abuse and female offending there is a lack of research seeking to explore how this relationship operates. Therefore the cent...

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Main Author: Roberts, Joanna Marie
Other Authors: Hodgkinson, Sarah ; Barnes, Rebecca
Published: University of Leicester 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.677435