Conceptualising violence in close relationships: discrepancies between police conceptions and the letter of the law in Finland

The focus in this Finland-based study is on violence in close relationships—a term that partly overlaps with the more commonly used ‘domestic violence’, ‘family violence’ and ‘intimate partner violence’. We demonstrate how police officers’ conceptualisations of such violence differ from how it is de...

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Main Author: Fagerlund, Monica (Author)
Contributors: Houtsonen, Jarmo ; Husso, Marita
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: European journal on criminal policy and research
Year: 2022, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-56
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