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Title The Dark side of families : current family violence research / edited by David Finkelhor ... [and others]
Published Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, [1983]
©1983

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Description 384 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series National Conference for Family Violence Researchers, Durham, NH, 1981
National Conference for Family Violence Researchers ; Durham, NH, 1981
Contents Preface -- Section I. Introduction. 1. Common features of family abuse / David Finkelhor -- Section II. Violence against wives. 2. The battered woman syndrome study / Lenore E. Walker -- 3. Violent men or violent husbands? Background factors and situational correlates / Jeffrey A. Fagan, Douglas K. Stewart, and Karen V. Hansen -- 4. Science and violence against wives / Laurie Wardell, Dair L. Gillespie, and Ann Leffler -- Section III. Physical and sexual abuse of children. 5. Doing what comes naturally? An evolutionary perspective on child abuse / Robert L. Burgess and James Garbarino -- 6. Exploring intrafamilial child sexual abuse : a systems approach / Kathleen J. Tierney and David L. Corwin -- Section IV. 7. Rape in marriage : a sociological view / David Finkelhor and Kersti Yllo -- 8. Battered wives' reactions to marital rape / Nancy M. Shields and Christine R. Hanneke -- Section V. Toward a theory of intrafamily violence. 9. An exchange/social control theory / Richard J. Gelles -- 10. The goals of aggression / Leonard Berkowitz -- 11. Social psychological determinants / Richard J. Sebastian --
Section VI. An appraisal of current issues. When is the use of physical force "violent?" 12. Mutual combat and other family violence myths / Richard A. Berk, Sarah Fenstermaker Berk, Bonileen R. Loseke, and David Rauma -- 13. Ordinary violence, child abuse, and wife-beating : what do they have in common? / Murray A. Straus -- 14. A hit is a hit is a hit ... or is it? Approval and tolerance of the use of physical force by spouses / Cathy Stein Greenblat -- Do we need new methods for studying wife abuse? 15. The context-specific approach / Russell P. Dobash and R. Emerson Dobash -- 16. Using a feminist approach in quantitative research : a case study / Kersti Yllo -- Women and child abuse : is it an issue we avoid? 17. A feminist analysis of child abuse and neglect / Carolyn Kott Washburne -- 18. Maternal and paternal abuse of children : theoretical and research perspectives / Judith Martin -- The intergenerational transmission of violence. 19. Perspectives on the intergenerational transmission of abuse / Ellen C. Herrenkohl, Roy C. Herrenkohl, and Lori J. Toedter -- 20. Social cognition and transmission of abuse / Sharon D. Herzberger -- What factors shape professional and social responses? 21. Social knowledge, social policy, and the abuse of women : the case against patriarchal benevolence / Evan Stark and Anne Flitcraft -- 22. Theories, professional knowledge, and diagnosis of child abuse / Richard O'Toole, Patrick Turbett, and Claire Nalepka -- 23. Feminist, political, and economic determinants of wife abuse services / Debra S. Kalmuss and Murray A. Straus -- About the editors and authors
Summary This series of articles portrays the state of the art on family violence and abuse research, crystallizes the key interdisciplinary issues confronting family violence and abuse researchers, and suggests a research agenda for the coming years. Although the chapters cover a broad spectrum of issues and controversies in the areas of wife abuse, child abuse, the sexual abuse of children, and marital rape, a number of common themes and issues emerge. First, many chapters share the perspective that violence and abuse emerge from the nature of social arrangements. Second, even though many different forms of family violence and abuse are discussed, several chapters explore their commonalities and important etiological differences. A number of articles examine the common effects of victimization across various forms of family violence and abuse. A third common theme of the papers is an expansion of research efforts to groups other than victims of family violence and abuse, as there are chapters that examine the individual and social characteristics of male perpetrators of both wife abuse and child abuse as well as chapters that focus on the attitudes and behaviors of professional groups concerned with the treatment of victims of family violence and abuse. The volume shows great methodological diversity and attention to theoretical detail; the research presented reveals the possibility of a more comprehensive social science approach to the study of family violence and abuse. In work related to theory building, one chapter explains a number of findings in the child abuse and neglect literature using propositions derived from evolutionary biology; another paper distills propositions from several theoretical traditions. In conjunction with these efforts, several chapters report research designed to test competing propositions. Chapter references and research data are provided
Analysis Child abuse - United States
Child sexual abuse - United States
Family Violence - United States
Rape in Marriage
United States Families Violence
Wife Abuse - United States
Notes Based on papers presented at the National Conference for Family Violence Researchers, Durham, N.H., 1981
Bibliography Includes bibliographies
Notes Also issued online
Based on papers presented at the National Conference for Family Violence Researchers, Durham, N.H., 1981
Issuing Body Based on papers presented at the National Conference for Family Violence Researchers, Durham, N.H., 1981
Subject Child abuse -- United States -- Congresses.
Child abuse -- United States.
Child sexual abuse -- United States.
Child sexual abuse -- United States -- Congresses.
Family violence -- United States -- Congresses.
Family violence -- United States.
Rape in marriage -- United States -- Congresses.
Rape in marriage -- United States.
Wife abuse -- United States -- Congresses.
Wife abuse -- United States.
Child Abuse.
Family.
Spouse Abuse.
Violence.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Finkelhor, David.
National Conference for Family Violence Researchers (1st : 1981 : Durham, N.H.)
LC no. 82021496
ISBN 0803919344
0803919352