History of Family Violence & CJS

History of the Criminal Justice Response to Domestic Violence

I. Conditions That Impede Criminalization of Family Violence
II. Early History

III. Puritan Era (1640-1680)

IV.    Criminal Justice Era
        A.    1830-1874
        B.    1875-1890

V. Progressive Era (1900-1920)

VI. Modern Criminal Justice Era (1960s-beyond)

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