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1 online resource (214 pages) |
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Social Institutions and Social Change |
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Social institutions and social change.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright page; 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 |
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6. An Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse and Consequent Victimization: Some Implications of Telephone Surveys7. 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 |
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PART IV. LEGAL RESPONSES TO FAMILY VIOLENCE12. 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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Print version record |
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Wife abuse -- United States
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Child abuse -- United States
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Family violence -- United States
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Child abuse
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Family violence
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Wife abuse
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Knudsen, Dean
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| ISBN |
9781351534185 |
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1351534181 |
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