Guest Column: Developing a coordinated community response to domestic violence
Amaia Iratzoqui
Amaia Iratzoqui, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Research Director of the Public Safety Institute at the University of Memphis
It can take a victim of domestic violence seven or eight times to even report victimization. Yet law enforcement will see the same suspects or victims multiple times over the span of months or years, either within the same relationship or in new relationships.
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