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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Violence against women in families and relationships. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger/ABC-CLIO, c2009 (OCoLC)690075633 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Evan Stark; Eva Schlesinger Buzawa |
| ISBN: | 9780275998462 0275998460 9780275998486 0275998487 9780275998509 0275998509 9780275998523 0275998525 9780275998547 0275998541 9780275998479 0275998479 |
| OCLC Number: | 309836050 |
| Description: | 4 v. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | v. 1. VICTIMIZATION AND THE COMMUNITY RESPONSE: The story of the shelter, "Women's advocates" / Sharon Rice Vaughan -- The evolution of the shelter movement / Deborah DeBare -- Changing from victim to survivor / Hilary Abrahams -- Evaluating community-based services / Cris M. Sullivan and Tameka L. Gillum -- Intimate partner violence and economic disadvantage / Claire M. Renzetti -- The trapping effects of poverty and violence / Jody Raphael -- Domestic violence and the postindustrial household / Deborah M. Weissman -- Understanding violence in lesbian relationships / Janice Ristock -- Domestic violence and the African American community / Katherine E. Morrison -- The health system response to domestic violence / Emma Williamson -- A betrayal trauma perspective on domestic violence / Melissa Platt, Jocelyn Barton, and Jennifer J. Freyd -- v. 2. THE FAMILY CONTEXT: Domestic violence and children's well-being / Judy L. Postmus -- The "Transmission" of intimate partner violence across generations / Alison C. Cares -- Securing safety for abused women and children in the family courts / Hilary Saunders -- Batterers and the lives of their children / David Mandel -- The battered mothers' dilemma / Evan Stark -- The contradictory legal worlds faced by domestic violence victims / Marianne Hester -- The misuse of parental alienation syndrome in custody suits / Joan S. Meier -- An introduction to the fathers' rights movement / Joan Dawson -- Divorce in the context of coercive control / Cynthia Wilcox Lischick -- v. 3. CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND THE LAW: The real crime of domestic violence / Deborah Tuerkheimer -- Battered women who fight back against their abusers / Leigh Goodmark -- Women's use of violence with male intimate partners / Suzanne C. Swan, Jennifer E. Caldwell, Tami P. Sullivan, and David L. Snow -- Evolution of the police response to domestic violence / Eve S. Buzawa and David Hirschel -- The prosecution of domestic violence across time / Christopher D. Maxwell, Amanda L. Robinson, and Andrew R. Klein -- Offenders and the criminal justice system / Andrew Klein -- Abusers' narratives following arrest and prosecution for domestic violence / Keith Guzik -- Program for men who batter / Daniel G. Saunders -- Batterer programs and beyond / Michael Rempel -- Why sex and gender matter in domestic violence research and advocacy / Molly Dragiewicz -- v. 4. THE MEDIA AND CULTURAL ATTITUDES: Public and personal stories of wife abuse / Donileen R. Loseke -- Film, violence, and gender / Karen Boyle -- Media frames of intimate partner homicide / Lori A. Post, Patricia K. Smith, and Emily M. Meyer -- Domestic violence in American magazines / Kathryn Phillips Thill and Karen E. Dill -- Domestic violence and victim empowerment folklore in popular culture / Nancy Berns --Violent video games, rape myth acceptance, and negative attitudes toward women / Karen E. Dill -- Gangsta rap and violence against women / Edward G. Armstrong -- Troubling violence through performance / Elaine J. Lawless -- Reshaping attitudes toward violence against women -- Michael Flood, Bob Pease, Natalie Taylor, and Kim Webster. |
| Series Title: | Praeger perspectives. |
| Other Titles: | Victimization and the community response v.1. Family context v.2. Criminal justice and the law v.3. Media and cultural attitudes v.4. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Evan Stark and Eve S. Buzawa. |
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