In: Social Institutions and Social Change
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 -- 6. An Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse and Consequent Victimization: Some Implications of Telephone Surveys -- 7. 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 -- PART IV. LEGAL RESPONSES TO FAMILY VIOLENCE -- 12. 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
In: Social institutions and social change
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