NCJ Number
114276
Date Published
1986
Length
22 pages
Annotation
This report describes the initiatives taken by the government of British Columbia, Canada in response to nine of the recommendations made in 1984 by Canadian ministers at all levels of government and focusing on ways of addressing the problem of wife beating.
Abstract
The recommendations focused on preparing an inventory of courses and workshops pertaining to family violence offered by public and private institutions, negotiating with hospital authorities regarding a reporting system for wife assault, continuing to develop a better police reporting system, providing helping professionals with better training on intervention strategies. Other recommendations included developing a medical protocol for identifying and treating wife assault, initiating a public awareness campaign, and encouraging the formation of self-help groups for perpetrators or victims of wife assault. For descriptions of actions taken at the Federal level and in other provinces, see NCJ 114275 and NCJ 114277-85.