Coping with family violence : research and policy perspectives /
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| Imprint: | Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1988. |
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| Description: | 323 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/957444 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Personal Responses To Violence: The Search For Meaning
- Applying the Label of Physical Abuse
- The Effects of Personal Experiences with Couple Violence
- On Calling it 'Battering' and Allocating Blame
- How Battered Women and Abusive Men Account for Domestic Violence
- Excuses, Justifications or Explanations?
- Part 2. Taking Action: Decisions to Deal With Violence
- The Effect of Methodology on Subjective Estimates of the Differential Effectiveness of Personal Strategies and Help-Sources Used by Battered Women
- The Decision to Leave an Abusive Relationship
- Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Issues
- Termination or Resumption of Cohabitation in Women Battering Relationships
- A Statistical Study
- Part 3. Seeking Help: The Use of Shelters and Programs For Men Who Batter
- The Use and Psychosocial Impact of a Battered Women's Shelter
- How Some Men Stop Their Abuse
- An Exploratory Program Evaluation
- Issues in Conducting Treatment Research with Men Who Batter
- Part 4. The Response of the Criminal Justice System
- An Empirical Analysis of Police Responses to Incidents of Wife Battery
- Explaining Variations in Police Response to Domestic Violence
- Case Study in Detroit and New England
- Victims Who Know Their Assailants
- Their Satisfaction with the Criminal Court's Response
- Coordinated Police, Judicial and Social Service Response to Woman Battering
- A Multiple-Baseline Evaluation Across Three Communities
- Part 5. The Response of Medical and Mental Health Services
- Child Abuse Incidence and Reporting by Hospitals
- Significance of Severity, Class and Race
- Part 6. The Response of Protective Services
- Foster Care for Child Maltreatment
- Impact on Delinquent Behavior
- Factors Influencing the Response of Child Protective Service Workers to Reports of Abuse and Neglect
- Intervention, Outcome, and Elder Abuse
- Child Maltreatment Evaluation Efforts
- What Have We Learned?
- Methodological Considerations in Treatment Outcome Research in Child Maltreatment
- Part 7. Preventing Violence and Abuse
- Research on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children
- Child Homicide in the United States
- The Road to Prevention