4 volumes ; 25 cm

This comprehensive overview of domestic violence against women and children in America covers the services meant to combat it, the legal approaches to prosecuting it, the public's attitudes toward it, and the successes and failures of systems meant to address it

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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

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