TY - JOUR AB - Effective professional approaches to the issue of domestic violence are in danger of being undermined by a lack of clarity in definition. This article argues that the gender neutral specification of domestic violence, the breadth of circumstances that comprise it and the encouragement of local variations allow a shift of focus away from the real problem of violence by males upon females and coherent crime reduction strategies. VL - 2 IS - 1 SN - 1757-8043 DO - 10.1108/17578043200300006 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/17578043200300006 AU - Radford Jill PY - 2003 Y1 - 2003/01/01 TI - Professionalising responses to domestic violence in the UK: definitional difficulties T2 - Safer Communities PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 32 EP - 39 Y2 - 2024/04/24 ER -