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Title Abused and battered : social and legal responses to family violence / Dean D. Knudsen and JoAnn L. Miller (editors)
Published New York : A. de Gruyter, [1991]
©1991

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Description xvi, 232 pages ; 24 cm
Series Social institutions and social change
Social institutions and social change.
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. Kromsky 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
Summary That family violence injures and kills its victims both physically and psychologically was established over two decades ago by early researchers in this field. This book heralds the second generation of domestic abuse research: it examines the implications of the legal and social responses to both victims and offenders by systematically addressing the intended and unintended consequences of programs and procedures designed to ameliorate the effects of spousal and child abuse
Analysis Child abuse United States
Family violence United States
Wife abuse United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-230) and index
Subject Child abuse -- United States.
Family violence -- United States.
Wife abuse -- United States.
Child Abuse.
Family.
Spouse Abuse.
Violence.
Author Knudsen, Dean D., 1932-
Miller, JoAnn L., 1949-2014.
LC no. 90022716
ISBN 0202304132
0202304140