Intimate partner violence : societal, medical, legal, and individual responses / Sana Loue.
"It is clear that physical abuse is an integral component of some intimate relationships. This book addresses not the violence but our responses or lack of responses to that violation of personal integrity and the accompanying trauma. How partner violence is responded to, individually and colle...
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New York :
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
[2001]
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| Series: | Issues in women's health (Kluwer Academic Publishers).
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Table of Contents:
- Definition and epidemiology of intimate partner violence
- Theories of causation
- How women and men define experiences of violence and its causes
- Violence as deviance? The societal response
- Responses of the helping professions
- Legal response
- Responses of the batterer
- Responses of the battered
- Children exposed to partner violence : their responses
- Looking towards the future : research, prevention, and the provision of services
- Conclusion.