Posted at the National Academy Press Website, this book examines "the successes and failures of family violence interventions. It offers recommendations to guide services, programs, policy, and research on victim support and assistance, treatments and penalties for offenders, and law enforcement." The text includes an analysis of more than 100 studies evaluating the effectiveness of different programs designed to address family violence. Violence in Families was produced by the Committee on the Assessment of Family Violence Interventions, a nineteen-member body comprised of sociologists, doctors, social workers, and professionals in the criminal justice system, under the auspices of the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. This e-text edition offers a hypertext table of contents and a search function.