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Domestic Violence Experiment in King's County (Brooklyn), New York, 1995-1997

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Principal Investigator(s): Davis, Robert C.; Taylor, Bruce G.; Maxwell, Christopher D.

Summary: The researchers sought to add to the incipient literature on randomized studies of batterer treatment, by conducting an experimental study that compared batterers assigned to treatment to batterers assigned to a community service program irrelevant to the problem of violence. The study was conducted using a true experimental design and consisted of 376 spousal assault cases drawn from the Kings County (New York) Criminal Court which were adjudicated between February 19, 1995, and March 1,... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04307.v1

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