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Prevention and Early Intervention with Violence and Abuse in Families

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Intervening After Violence

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This chapter is about the prevention of intimate partner violence and child abuse that take place inside the home. It starts by providing a theoretical framework for understanding the processes at play when there is abuse in the family. The current legal frameworks that are in place and the strategic policies, including examples of good practice and evidence-based policies aimed to prevent violence and abuse between family members, are then reviewed.

The original version of this chapter was revised: See the “Chapter Note” section at the end of this chapter for details. The erratum to this chapter is available at 10.1007/978-3-319-57789-0_10

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    Clarissa Sammut Scerri & Angela Abela

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  3. Reading Safer Families, Reading, Berkshire, UK

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Sammut Scerri, C., Vetere, A., Abela, A., Cooper, J. (2017). Prevention and Early Intervention with Violence and Abuse in Families. In: Intervening After Violence. Focused Issues in Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57789-0_9

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