| Summary: | "The magnitude of violence against women and children is alarming, and awareness of the problem is the first step toward prevention. People cannot stop something they cannot see or name. Once named, violence against women and children, in its various forms, is no longer socially and culturally invisible. Furthermore, identification of key modifiable risk and protective factors builds the foundation of scientifically sound primary prevention. Simultaneously, description and quantification of psychological, health, behavioral, and economic consequences contribute to design and implementation of best practices in secondary and tertiary prevention. Therefore, Violence Against Women and Children, Volume 2: Navigating Solutions focuses on direct services to victims and offenders, justice system responses, and prevention. Eminent scholars representing several disciplines summarize what is currently known about child abuse, sexual violence, and domestic violence, broadly conceptualized. They identify consensus in findings, and, where it does not exist, they delineate competing positions. They also address the importance of understanding methods used in research, gaps in knowledge, and the priorities that emerge from their analyses. The identification of current methods and their strengths and weaknesses provides insight into how to improve definitions, assessment methods, theoretical models, and research methods. The chapters are selective, not comprehensive, reviews. Furthermore, certain forms of violence against women and children, such as teen dating violence and elder abuse, are only touched on in the context of broader analyses"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
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