Woman abuse : facts replacing myths /
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| Author / Creator: | Okun, Lewis, 1954- |
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, 1986. |
| Description: | xxi, 298 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/702714 |
Table of Contents:
- List Of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Purpose of the Present Work
- Author's Interest and Experience
- Values Assumptions
- Terminology
- Outline of the Book
- I. Review And Critique Of The Literature On Battering
- 1. History
- Woman Abuse in Historical Perspective
- 2. The Empirical Literature
- History
- Problems with the Literature
- Overall Trends
- The Empirical Literature - Methods and Designs
- Critique of the Empirical Literature
- 3. Results Of Empirical Works
- Incidence and Prevalence
- Relative Incidence of Battered Wives and Battered Husbands
- Age
- Marital Status
- Race
- Religion
- Socioeconomic Variables
- Patterns in Woman Abuse
- Sexual Issues in Woman Abuse
- Not Separating, Separating, and Returning
- Seeking Intervention
- Assailants' Criminal Records
- Military Service
- Alcohol and Conjugal Violence
- Child Abuse and Conjugal Abuse
- Family Histories of Violence
- Miscellaneous Quantitative Findings
- Clinical Descriptions
- 4. Theoretical Literature
- Psychoanalytic Approaches
- Learning Theory
- Coercive Control Theory
- Sociological Theories
- Feminist Theories
- Empirical and Theoretical Literature Compared
- Universal Problems of the Theoretical Literature
- Family Violence vs. Woman Abuse
- The Intergenerational Transmission Hypothesis
- 5. Coercive Control And Woman Abuse
- Thought Reform and Woman Abuse
- Coercive Control and Pimping
- When Is a Family Not a Family?
- II. The Current Study
- 6. Method
- Setting
- Method
- Limitations of the Present Study
- Advantages of the Study
- Hypotheses to Be Tested
- Characteristics of the Shelter Sample
- Characteristics of the Counseling Sample
- 7. Comparisons Of The Samples To The General Population
- Age Charateristics
- Racial Characteristics
- Number of Children
- Premarital Pregnancy Rates
- Employment Rates
- Welfare Recipient Status
- Marital Status
- Childhood Exposure to Conjugally Violent Parents
- Childhood Subjection to Child Abuse
- Educational Level of Assailant Partners
- Alcohol Abuse among Batterers
- Military Experience among Batterers
- 8. Concordance Between Victims' And Assailants' Reports
- 9. Factors Relating To The Termination Or Resumption Of Cohabitation Between The Battered Woman And Batterer
- Whether Partner Sought Batterers' Counseling
- Age
- Race
- Number of Children and Age of Children
- Economic Factors
- Psychoactive Medications and Previous Counseling
- Marital Status
- Length of Relationship
- Time Elapsed Since the Initial Conjugal Assault
- Number of Previous Separations
- Other Factors Regarding Previous Separations
- Magnitude of Abuse: Number, Frequency, and Severity of Conjugal Assaults
- Physical Retaliation in Self-defense by the Women
- Conjugal Abuse of Shelter Residents' Mothers
- Child Abuse Sustained by Shelter Residents
- Concomitant Child Abuse by the Batterer
- Distance Traveled by Battered Women to Shelter
- Assailant's Level of Education
- Assailant's Alcohol Abuse
- Batterers' Criminal Record of Violent Offenses
- 10. ADDITIONAL RESULTS
- Factors Relating to the Level of Violence
- Predictors of Batterers' Counseling Outcomes
- 11. Summary And Discussion Of Results
- Discussion
- Indications for Future Research
- Appendix A. Table Of Variables Collected From The Shelter Sample
- Appendix B. The Shelter Intake Form
- Appendix C. Table Of Variables Collected From The Batterers' Counseling Sample
- Appendix D. The Batterers' Counseling Intake Form
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index