Citation

Mcmahon M, Pence E. Violence Against Women 2003; 9(1): 47-74.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801202238430

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The arrest of large numbers of women under laws originally designed to protect them from male violence tells us very little about women’s use of violence against their intimate partners. However, it does tell us about the difficulties of organizing to protect women from violence and about some of the unanticipated challenges of engaging the legal and criminal justice systems as ways of protecting women from violence. The authors offer strategies that activists can use to advocate for women who have been victims of domestic violence and who have been arrested for using domestic violence.