Abused and battered : social and legal responses to family violence / Dean D. Knudsen and JoAnn L. Miller (editors).
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
A. de Gruyter,
[1991]
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| Series: | Social institutions and social change.
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Table of Contents:
- Family violence research : some basic and applied questions / JoAnn L. Miller
- Physical violence in American families : incidence rates, causes, and trends / Murray A. Straus
- Public-health conceptions of family abuse / Jacquelyn C. Campbell
- Variations in defining family mistreatment : a community survey / Stephen W. Webster
- Criminal-justice processing of violent and nonviolent offenders : the effects of familial relationship to the victim / Sharon D. Herzberger and Noreen L. Channels
- An investigation of child sexual abuse and consequent victimization : some implications of telephone surveys / John E. Murphy
- The mixed roles of social support and social obstruction in recovery from child abuse / Diana Gurley
- The admissibility of expert testimony on the battered-woman syndrome / Debra F. Kromshy and Brian L. Cutler
- The outcome of participation in a shelter-sponsored program for men who batter / Richard M. Tolman and Gauri Bhosley
- Removal of the perpetrator versus removal of the victim in cases of intrafamilial child sexual abuse / Patricia Ryan, Bruce L. Warren, and Peggy Weincek
- Perceptions of verbal aggression in interspousal violence / Teresa Chandler Sabourin
- Police classification of domestic-violence calls : an assessment of program impact / Richard K. Caputo
- Legal responses of prosecutors to child sexual abuse : a case comparison of two countries / Bruce K. Mac Murray
- Family violence and the courts : implementing a comprehensive new law / Eleanor Lyon and Patricia Goth Mace
- Improving the investigation and prosecution of child sexual-abuse cases : research findings, questions, and implications for public policy / Debra Whitcomb
- Preventing and provoking wife battery through criminal sanctions : a look at the risks / David A. Ford.