| Description |
323 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Part One: Personal Responses To Violence: The Search For Meaning -- Applying the Label of Physical Abuse - Sharon Herzberger and Howard Tennen -- The Effects of Personal Experiences with Couple Violence - Andrea J Sedlak -- On Calling it ̀Battering' and Allocating Blame -- How Battered Women and Abusive Men Account for Domestic Violence - Michele Bograd -- Excuses, Justifications or Explanations? -- Part Two: 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 - Lee H Bowker -- The Decision to Leave an Abusive Relationship - Michael J Strube -- Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Issues -- Termination or Resumption of Cohabitation in Women Battering Relationships - Lewis Okun -- A Statistical Study -- Part Three: Seeking Help: The Use Of Shelters And Programs For Men Who Batter -- The Use and Psychosocial Impact of a Battered Women's Shelter - Andrea J Sedlak -- How Some Men Stop Their Abuse - Edward W Gondolf -- An Exploratory Program Evaluation -- Issues in Conducting Treatment Research with Men Who Batter - Daniel G Saunders -- Part Four: The Response Of The Criminal Justice System -- An Empirical Analysis of Police Responses to Incidents of Wife Battery - Richard Berk, Sarah Fenstermaker and Phillis J Newton -- Explaining Variations in Police Response to Domestic Violence - Eve Buzawa -- Case Study in Detroit and New England -- Victims Who Know Their Assailants - Barbara E Smith -- Their Satisfaction with the Criminal Court's Response -- Coordinated Police, Judicial and Social Service Response to Woman Battering - Denise J Gamache, Jeffrey L Edleson and Michael D Schock -- A Multiple-Baseline Evaluation Across Three Communities -- Part Five: The Response Of Medical And Mental Health Services -- Child Abuse Incidence and Reporting by Hospitals - Robert L Hampton and Eli H Newberger -- Significance of Severity, Class and Race -- Part Six: The Response Of Protective Services -- Foster Care for Child Maltreatment - Desmond K Runyan and Carolyn L Gould -- Impact on Delinquent Behavior -- Factors Influencing the Response of Child Protective Service Workers to Reports of Abuse and Neglect - Susan J Wells -- Intervention, Outcome, and Elder Abuse - Rosalie S Wolf and Karl A Pillemer -- Child Maltreatment Evaluation Efforts - Deborah Daro and Ann H Cohn -- What Have We Learned? -- Methodological Considerations in Treatment Outcome Research in Child Maltreatment - Sandra T Azar -- Part Seven: Preventing Violence And Abuse -- Research on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children - Jon R Conte -- Child Homicide in the United States - Katherine K Christoffel -- The Road to Prevention |
| Analysis |
United States Families Violence |
| Notes |
Based on papers presented at the Second National Conference for Family Violence Researchers held at the University of New Hampshire |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Family violence -- Government policy -- United States.
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Family violence -- United States.
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Child Abuse, Sexual.
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Child Abuse.
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Family.
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Spouse Abuse.
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Violence.
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Family -- psychology.
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Public Policy.
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Violence.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Author |
Hotaling, Gerald T.
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University of New Hampshire.
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National Conference for Family Violence Researchers (2nd : University of New Hampshire)
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| LC no. |
88001874 |
| ISBN |
0803927223 |
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0803927231 (paperback) |
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