Shelters for battered women can be divided into four categories: feminist, social service, custodial, and family welfare. Each has a distinctive ideology, social organization, rationale, and procedures. This organizational study involved interviews and participant observation of eleven shelters in two cities.
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Nanette J. Davis (1988) studied this question.
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