Family violence across the lifespan : an introduction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnett, Ola W.
Other Authors: Miller-Perrin, Cindy L. (Cindy Lou), 1962-, Perrin, Robin D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, Inc., [2005]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Why are families violent?
  • Discovering family violence: how social conditions become social problems
  • Discovering child maltreatment: the historical context
  • Discovering child physical abuse
  • Discovering child sexual abuse
  • Discovering child neglect and child psychological maltreatment
  • Discovering adult victimization: the historical context
  • Discovering battered women
  • Discovering battered men?
  • Discovering marital rape
  • Discovering dating violence
  • Discovering elder abuse
  • International issues in the discovery of family violence
  • New and emerging issues
  • Gay and lesbian violence
  • Cross-cultural factors
  • Defining family violence: understanding the social construction of deviance definitions
  • What is a family?
  • What is violence?
  • A definition of family violence
  • Family violence and the law
  • Introducing issues in practice, policy and prevention
  • Prevention of family violence
  • Family support and training programs
  • School-based programs
  • Community awareness campaigns
  • Intervention strategies
  • Mandatory reporting laws
  • Family preservation, foster care, and adoption
  • Criminal justice issues
  • Shelters and hotlines
  • Treating offenders and victims
  • Coordinated community responses
  • Summary
  • Goals of the book
  • Discussion questions
  • Recommended readings
  • Boxed insert 1.1: distinguishing maltreatment from abuse
  • Boxed insert 1.2: common myths about family violence
  • Boxed insert 1.3: personalizing family violence research
  • Research methodology, assessment, and theories: investigating the problem of family violence
  • Introduction
  • Case history #2a: juanita's broken heart and broken body
  • Studying family violence: a multidisciplinary effort
  • Box #2a: conflicting goals of researchers and practitioners: need for collaboration
  • Sociological research
  • Social work research
  • Criminological research
  • Psychological and psychiatric research
  • Medical, nursing, and public health research
  • Legal research
  • Expansion of federal government research
  • Section summary
  • Theoretical explanations of family violence
  • Macrotheory: explaining patterns of family violence
  • Cultural explanations
  • Interview 2a: kersti yllo - must update
  • Social-structural factors
  • Deterrence: low cost of family violence
  • Microtheory: explaining the behavior of violent family members
  • Socialization and learning theories
  • Table 1: expansion of learning theories
  • Individual (intrapersonal) difference theories
  • Interpersonal interaction theories
  • Multidimensional theories
  • Section summary
  • Methodology: how researchers try to answer questions about family violence
  • Box #2b: issues related to family violence research
  • Methodological issues in family violence
  • Sources of data
  • Assessment and research design issues
  • Lack of theoretical foundation
  • Definitional disagreements
  • Populations sampled
  • Comparison groups
  • Longitudinal (outcome) studies
  • Diversity awareness - inclusion of minority groups
  • Family violence scales and measurement issues
  • Interview #2b: k. daniel o'leary
  • Conflict tactics scales (cts1)
  • Revised conflict tactics scales (cts2)
  • Box #2c: types of questions on the cts2
  • Box #2d: types of questions on the cts-pc
  • Estimating rates of family violence
  • Growing recognition of psychological abuse
  • Need for multiple measurements
  • Cultural competence in assessment
  • Statistical and evaluation matters
  • Researcher training
  • Univariate and multivariate designs
  • Case histories and qualitative studies
  • Ethical issues
  • Section summary
  • Practice, policy, and prevention issues
  • Practice issues
  • Policy implications
  • Summary
  • Discussion questions
  • Suggested readings.