Policing marital violence in Singapore

Policing marital violence in Singapore / by Narayanan Ganapathy.

""Why have years of police reform in Singapore not produced significant changes in improving the policing of marital violence" is the fundamental question raised by this volume. Carefully exploring the police response to marital violence in Singapore, while paying due attention to the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Narayanan, Ganapathy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Series:Social sciences in Asia ; v. 22.
Subjects:
Marital violence > Singapore > History.
Marital violence > Singapore > Prevention.
Law enforcement > Singapore.
Police regulations > Singapore.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Law Enforcement.
Law enforcement
Marital violence
Marital violence > Prevention
Police regulations
Singapore
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The problem of policing marital violence
  • Policing marital violence : an historical and analytical review
  • Reconceptualising the problem of policing marital violence : police culture revisited
  • Biography and method
  • Reforming the policing of marital violence : missing the mark?
  • The operational policing of marital violence : a view from the street
  • Between the devil and the deep-blue sea : victims' experiences of policing in marital violence
  • Conclusion: Rethinking the problem of policing marital violence.

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