Six chapters discuss general matters that relate to inter-agency work. One of these chapters describes the British national research study of multi-agency responses to domestic violence, highlighting key features of multi-agency forums and key issues for the development of inter-agency work. Another chapter examines the role of British Women's Aid in the development of multi-agency responses to domestic violence, followed by a chapter that discusses the links between domestic violence against women and children and child protection work; it identifies some policy implications for the development of new multi-agency responses. A chapter discusses the development of multi-agency community policing, its connections to the development of multi-agency responses to domestic violence, and the implications for social justice and equality. Other chapters in the first section take a critical look at the concepts of "inter-agency work" and "partnership" from a feminist perspective and describe the importance of and the difficulties involved in developing "equalities work" (focusing on minority victim groups) as an integral part of the multi-agency response. The second section of the book consists of five chapters that describe a variety of approaches to multi-agency domestic violence work, with attention to model programs and how to reach joint agreements on policy in multi-agency work. The four chapters of the third section of the book discuss multi-agency work in various service sectors, e.g., the police, housing, and social services. Chapter references, 210 collected references, and a subject index