Citation

Ellis D. J. Fam. Violence 1987; 2(4): 319-333.

Affiliation

Department of Sociology and LaMarsh Research Programme on Violence, York University, North York, Ontario, Canada

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF00993298

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study examines the claim that domestic disturbances account for a disproportionate number of deaths and injury to police officers. The uses to which this claim was put and the shift to arresting wife abusers during the 1980s are described. The crises of hegemony faced by the state during the 1960s is used to explain the widespread implementation of a family crisis intervention program that did nothing to reduce deaths and injuries to police officers or family members. The emergence of the women''s movement helps explain the state''s shift in emphasis from crisis intervention to arresting wife abusers.