Andrew Stelman, Assistant Chief Probation Officer with Merseyside Probation Service, reviews recent belated attention to abusive adult relationships and the practice and prosecution implications if women are to be properly protected and empowered. Intervention will fail unless programmes for victim survivors and perpetrators run in tandem, together with a firm resolve to prosecute rather than divert.
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Land Commission Paper 113 Domestic Violence and Occupation of the Family Home, 1989.
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Land Commission Paper 207 Family Law, Domestic Violence and Occupation of the Family Home, 1992, summarised by Hayes and Williams, Family Law, November 1992.
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O'Hara ' Domestic Violence and Child Abuse' Childright July 1992.
