Partner Violence

A Comprehensive Review of 20 Years of Research
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-7619-1318-4
Verlag: Corwin

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Since 1974 the abundance of articles and books published on family violence has heightened the awareness of the scope and significance of this problem. Now, a comprehensive interdisciplinary review of this literature synthesizes the past 20 years of accumulated research on partner violence. Summarizing the major findings of vast research on family violence, this book delineates the strengths and limitations of that research and makes practical recommendations for future research and current practice. Issues of prevention, intervention, treatment, and empirically based recommendations for response to partner violence are included. Skillfully edited by Jana L. Jasinski and Linda M. Williams, Partner Violence includes seven chapters written by notable scholars in the family violence field: David Finkelhor, Sherry Hamby, Glenda Kaufman Kantor, Patricia Mahoney, Jean Giles-Sims, Murray A. Straus, Carolyn West, and Janis Wolak. Easily accessible, Partner Violence makes an excellent text choice for family violence courses. This extensive volume covers critical aspects, including chapters on the following topics:

- Marital rape

- The effects of partner violence on children

- Partner violence among same sex couples

- Partner violence in ethnic minority couples

This up-to-date text provides a resource that is essential for students, researchers and practitioners in all fields concerned with family violence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jasinski, Jana L.

Williams, Linda

Williams, Linda M.

Finkelhor, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Kindesmissbrauch, Sexueller Missbrauch, Häusliche Gewalt
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Murray A Straus
Partner Violence - Jana L Jasinski and Linda M Williams et al
A Comprehensive Review of 20 Years of Research
Characterizing and Assessing Risk in Violent Partner Relationships - Glenda Kaufman Kantor and Jana L Jasinski
Social and Psychological Consequences of Partner Violence - Jean Giles-Sims
Effects of Partner Violence on Children - Janis Wolak and David Finkelhor
Sexual Assault in Marriage - Patricia Mahoney and Linda M Williams
Prevalence, Consequences and Treatment of Wife Rape
Leaving a Second Closet - Carolyn M West
Outing Partner Violence in Same-Sex Couples
Lifting the `Political Gag Order' - Carolyn M West
Breaking the Silence around Partner Violence in Ethnic Minority Families
Prevention and Intervention of Partner Violence - Sherry L Hamby

Über Autor(innen)

Williams, Linda M.
Linda M. Williams received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979, where she studied at the Center for Research in Criminology and Criminal Law. Dr Williams was appointed in 2005 as Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of Massachusetts Lowell. She was Director of Research at the Stone Center, Wellesley Centers for Women from 1996-2005 and has directed longitudinal research on sexual exploitation of children and youth, the consequences of child abuse, violence against women, family violence, sex offenders and violence prevention for 33 years.

Professor Williams is author of 4 books and numerous scholarly publications on family violence including Partner Violence (1998), Trauma and Memory (1998), Nursery Crimes: Sexual Abuse in Day Care (1988), and The Aftermath of Rape (1979). She served on the National Research Councils’ Panel on Violence Against Women and as co-director of the National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center. Dr. Williams has been principal investigator on 13 U.S. federally funded research projects. Current research includes research on child abuse recidivism, human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children. She is principal investigator of a study of prostituted teens and at risk runaways funded by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Dr Williams is currently co-editing a special issue of the journal Child Maltreatment on “Child maltreatment and adolescent violence: Understanding complex connections.”