Drawing on his ethnographic research in rural areas of Kentucky, the author of this book presents a thorough look at the experiences of battered women in rural communities. Neil Websdale demonstrates how rural patriarchy and an insidious `ol' boy's network' of law enforcement and local politics sustains, reproduces and transforms the subordinate, ......
Same-Sex Domestic Violence focuses on topics of practical concern in a neglected area of partner abuse. Contributors to this volume are prominent professionals and activists in the field.'
Evaluating Services for Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault provides an easily accessible overview of the process and problems in the evaluation of programs serving abused women. The authors cover general issues in evaluation as well as the process of collaborating with both funding agencies and community-based agencies. They place ......
In this provocative contribution to the debate on which interventions are most effective in reducing domestic violence, a wide range of research methods and analyses are presented and a number of issues raised. These include: whether the criminal justice response to domestic violence is inadequate; whether there is a conflict of interest between society and the victim of violence; and whether alternative means should be used to deter chronic batterers who are undeterred by the criminal justice response.
Going beyond the traditional psychological and sociological approaches, this ground-breaking volume presents a new theoretical framework for understanding and resolving abusive family interactions: it takes a communication perspective to examine the interactional processes at the core of domestic abuse, aggression and violence. Covering spouse, child, elderly parent and courtship abuse, the contributors explore both commonalities and differences in emotional, psychological, verbal and sexual abuse. They illustrate how these different types of abuse stem from problematic communication patterns integral to the power imbalance inherent in abusive relationships. The contributors also suggest ways of modifying these patterns.
Praise for First Edition: `This is an important book' - Young Minds Newsletter `This book is a valuable and timely summary of current research into violence within the family. Most of the chapters are up to date, and there is surprisingly little overlap between them. It has been well edited, being readable and of uniform style.... the... ......
This collection is a study of family violence, based on papers from the 4th International Family Violence Research Conference. The contributors call for a collaborative approach to the study of family violence and examine theory, methodology, assessment, interventions and ethical concerns related to both child and wife abuse. The issues that ......
This work challenges one of Western culture's most deeply-help assumptions: that violence against women is different from violence against men. It argues that this type of violence is rarely the result of sexism or hatred against women and that sexism may actually inhibit violence against women.
In this provocative volume international exp erts discuss the progress already made in tackling the world wide problem of violence against women, and set out a stateg ic vision of the future in different societies in terms of g lobal organisation. '
