Abused and battered : social and legal responses to family violence /

Abused and battered : social and legal responses to family violence /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Hawthorne, N.Y. : A. de Gruyter, c1991.
Description:xvi, 232 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Social institutions and social change
Subject:
Family violence -- United States
Child abuse.
Family violence.
Wife abuse.
United States.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1168403
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Other authors / contributors:Knudsen, Dean D., 1932-
Miller, JoAnn L., 1949-
ISBN:0202304132 (cloth)
0202304140 (paperbound)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Contributors
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Some Fundamental Issues
  • Part I. Conceptualization and Empirical Study
  • 1. Family Violence Research: Some Basic and Applied Questions
  • 2. Physical Violence in American Families: Incidence Rates, Causes, and Trends
  • 3. Public-Health Conceptions of Family Abuse
  • 4. Variations in Defining Family Mistreatment: A Community Survey
  • 5. Criminal-Justice Processing of Violent and Nonviolent Offenders: The Effects of Familial Relationship to the Victim
  • Part II. Effects of Victimization
  • 6. An Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse and Consequent Victimization: Some Implications of Telephone Surveys
  • 7. The Mixed Roles of Social Support and Social Obstruction in Recovery from Child Abuse
  • 8. The Admissibility of Expert Testimony on the Battered-Woman Syndrome
  • Part III. Social Responses to Family Violence: Batterers and Their Victims
  • 9. The Outcome of Participation in a Shelter-Sponsored Program for Men Who Batter
  • 10. Removal of the Perpetrator versus Removal of the Victim in Cases of Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse
  • 11. Perceptions of Verbal Aggression in Interspousal Violence
  • Part IV. Legal Responses to Family Violence
  • 12. Police Classification of Domestic-Violence Calls: An Assessment of Program Impact
  • 13. Legal Responses of Prosecutors to Child Sexual Abuse: A Case Comparison of Two Countries
  • 14. Family Violence and the Courts: Implementing a Comprehensive New Law
  • 15. Improving the Investigation and Prosecution of Child Sexual-Abuse Cases: Research Findings, Questions, and Implications for Public Policy
  • 16. Preventing and Provoking Wife Battery through Criminal Sanctions: A Look at the Risks
  • References
  • Index

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