Abused and Battered: Social and Legal Responses to Family Violence

by Dean Knudsen (Editor)

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ISBN-13:	9780202304144
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	12/31/1991
Series:	Social Institutions and Social Change Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1350L (what's this?)

About the Author

JoAnn L. Miller is Associate Professor of Sociology and a member of the Women’s Studies Committee at Purdue University. She has published numerous articles in the sociology of law field.

Dean D. Knudsen is Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. He has published numerous books and articles on family violence. His earlier works, including the co-authorship of Spindles and Spires, were in the sociology of religion field.

Table of Contents

List of ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction: Some Fundamental IssuesPART I. CONCEPTUALIZATION AND EMPIRICAL STUDY1. Family Violence Research: Some Basic and Applied Questions JoAnn L. Miller2. Physical Violence in American Families: Incidence Rates, Causes, and Trends Murray A. Straus3. Public-Health Conceptions of Family Abuse Jacquelyn C. Campbell4. Variations in Defining Family Mistreatment: A Community Survey Stephen W. Webster5. Criminal-Justice Processing of Violent and Nonviolent Offenders: The Effects of Familial Relationship to the Victim Sharon D. Herzberger and Noreen L. ChannelsPART II. EFFECTS OF VICTIMIZATION6. An Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse and Consequent Victimization: Some Implications of Telephone Surveys John E. Murphy7. The Mixed Roles of Social Support and Social Obstruction in Recovery from Child Abuse Diana Gurley8. The Admissibility of Expert Testimony on the Battered-Woman Syndrome Debra F. Kromsky and Brian L. CutlerPART III. SOCIAL RESPONSES TO FAMILY VIOLENCE: BATTERERS AND THEIR VICTIMS9. The Outcome of Participation in a Shelter-Sponsered Program for Men Who Batter Richard M. Tolman and Gauri Bhosley10. Removal of the Perpetrator versus Removal of the Victim in Cases of Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse Patricia Ryan, Bruce L. Warren, and Peggy Weincek11. Perceptions of Verbal Aggression in Interspousal Violence Teresa Chandler SabourinPART IV. LEGAL RESPONSES TO FAMILY VIOLENCE12. Police Classification of Domestic-Violence Calls: An Assessment of Program Impact Richard K. Caputo13. Legal Responses of Prosecutors to Child Sexual Abuse: A Case Comparison of Two Countries Bruce K. Mac Murray14. Family Violence and the Courts: Implementing a Comprehensive New Law Elanor Lyon and Patricia Goth Mace15. Improvising the Investigation and Prosecution of Child Sexual-Abuse Cases: Research Findings, Questions, and Implications for Public Policy Debra Whitcomb16. Preventing and Provoking Wife Battery through Criminal Sanctions: A Look at the Risks David A. FordReferencesIndex

Editorial Reviews

In this multidisciplinary collection, contributors explore persistent problems associated with the unresponsiveness of the police and the criminal justice system to victims of family violence, and the effects of prosecutorial discretion on such victims… Upper-division undergraduates and above.” —Y. Peterson, Choice “The evaluation studies in this volume underscore many of the problems researchers face, as well as the creative and ingenious approaches that they adopt to appraise programs and processes designed to reduce the injurious effects of family violence. The book is a welcome addition to the family violence literature. It is effectively organized and well written… [T]he book can stand alone as a course text.” —Ann Goetting, Contemporary Sociology “The strengths of this book include its coverage of both social and legal aspects of intervention, the inclusion of both quantitative and qualitative research studies, and the recognition that different types of abuse and victimization often occur within the same family.” —N. Zoe Hilton, Canadian Journal of Criminology “The volume presents important new research… The book would make an excellent supplemental text for a course on family violence.” —Richard J. Gelles, Journal of Marriage and Family “Abuse and Battered heralds the second generation of domestic abuse research: it examines the implications of the legal and social responses to both victims and offenders by systematically addressing the intended and unintended consequences of programs and procedures designed to ameliorate the effects of spousal and child abuse.” —Adolescence

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