| Description |
xxix, 789 p. ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- List of entries A-Z -- Thematic list of entries -- Victims of domestic violence -- Theoretical perspectives and correlates of domestic violence -- Cross-cultural and religious perspectives -- Understanding areas within domestic violence research -- Domestic violence and the Law -- Child abuse and elder abuse -- Special topics in domestic violence -- Entries A-Z: Africa: domestic violence and the law -- Africa: the criminal justice system and the problem of domestic violence in West Africa -- African American community, Domestic violence in -- Analyzing incidents of domestic violence: the National Incident-Based Reporting System -- Animal abuse: the link to family violence -- Asian Americans and domestic violence: cultural dimensions -- Attachment theory and domestic violence -- Battered husbands -- Battered wives -- Battered wives -- Battered woman syndrome -- Battered woman syndrome as a legal defense in cases of spousal homicide -- Battered women, Clemency for -- Battered women, Held in captivity -- Battered women who kill: an examination -- Batterer intervention programs -- Batterer typology -- Bullying and the family -- Caregiver violence against people with disabilities -- Child abuse: a global perspective -- Child abuse and juvenile delinquency -- Child abuse and neglect in the United States: an overview -- Child maltreatment, Interviewing suspected victims of -- Child neglect -- Child sexual abuse -- Children witnessing parental violence -- Christianity and domestic violence -- Coercive control -- Cohabiting violence -- Community response to domestic violence -- Community response to Gay and Lesbian domestic violence -- Compassionate homicide and spousal violence -- Conflict Tactics Scales -- Control balance theory and domestic violence -- Corporal punishment, Religious attitudes toward -- Cross-cultural examination of domestic violence in China and Pakistan -- Cross-cultural examination of domestic violence in Latin America -- Cross-cultural perspectives on domestic violence -- Cross-cultural perspectives on how to deal with batterers -- Cycle of violence -- Date rape -- Dating violence -- Dating violence among African American couples -- Depression and domestic violence -- Disassociation in domestic violence, The role of -- Divorce, child custody, and domestic violence -- Domestic homicide in urban centers: New York City -- Domestic violence by law enforcement officers -- Domestic violence courts -- Education as a risk factor for domestic violence -- Elder abuse, Assessing the risks of -- Elder abuse, Consequences of -- Elder abuse and neglect: training issues for professionals -- Elder abuse by intimate partners -- Elder abuse perpetrated by adult children -- Electronic monitoring of abusers -- Exchange theory -- Expert testimony in domestic violence cases -- Factors influencing reporting behavior by male domestic violence victims --Fatality reviews in cases of adult domestic homicide and suicide -- Female suicide and domestic violence -- Feminist theory -- Filicide and children with disabilities -- Gay and bisexual male domestic violence -- Gay domestic violence, Police attitudes and behaviors toward -- Gender socialization and gay male domestic violence -- Greece, Domestic violence in -- Healthcare professionals' roles in identifying and responding to domestic violence -- Homelessness, The impact of family violence on -- Human rights, refugee laws, and asylum protection for people fleeing domestic violence -- Identity theft and domestic violence -- Incest -- Inmate mothers: treatment and policy implications -- Intergenerational transfer of intimate partner violence -- Intimate partner homicide -- Intimate partner homicide -- Intimate partner violence and mental retardation -- Intimate partner violence, Forms of -- Intimate partner violence in queer, transgender, and bisexual communities -- Jewish community, Domestic violence within the -- Judicial perspectives on domestic violence -- Lautenberg Law -- Legal issues for battered women -- Lesbian battering -- Male victims of domestic violence and reasons they stay with their abusers -- Mandatory arrest policies -- Marital rape -- Measuring domestic violence -- Mediation in domestic violence -- Medical neglect related to religion and culture -- Medicalization of domestic violence -- Military families, Domestic violence within -- Minorities and families in America, Introduction to -- Mothers who kill -- Multicultural programs for domestic batterers -- Munchausen by proxy syndrome -- Mutual battering -- Native Americans, Domestic violence among -- Neurological and physiological impact of abuse -- Parental abduction -- Parricide -- Police civil liability in domestic violence incidents -- Police decision-making factors in domestic violence cases -- Police response to domestic violence incidents -- Popular culture and domestic violence -- Post-incest syndrome -- Postpartum depression, psychosis, and infanticide -- Pregnancy-related violence -- Prosecution of child abuse and neglect -- Protective and restraining orders -- Pseudo-family abuse -- Qur'anic perspectives on wife abuse -- Ritual abuse: torture in families -- Rule of thumb -- Rural communities, Domestic violence in -- Same-sex domestic violence: comparing Venezuela and the United States -- Sexual aggression perpetrated by females -- Sexual orientation and gender identity: the need for education in servicing victims of trauma -- Shaken baby syndrome -- Shelter movement -- Sibling abuse -- Social class and domestic violence -- Social, economic, and psychological costs of violence -- Social learning theory and family violence -- South Africa, Domestic violence in -- Spain, Domestic violence in -- Spousal abuse, The physical and psychological impact of -- Spousal prostitution -- Stages of learning abusive relationships -- Stalking -- Stockholm Syndrome in battered women -- Substance use/abuse and intimate partner violence -- Training practices for law enforcement in domestic violence cases -- Trinidad and Tobago, Domestic violence in -- Victim-blaming theory -- Violence against Women Act -- Women with disabilities, Domestic violence against -- Workplace, Domestic violence in -- Worldwide sociolegal precedents supporting domestic violence from ancient to modern times. |
| Subject |
Domestic Violence -- Encyclopedias -- English. |
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Family violence -- Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Jackson, Nicky Ali.
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| Added Title |
Domestic violence |
| ISBN |
9780415969680 (alk. paper) |
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0415969689 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
NLM 101308656 |
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YDXCP 2496384 |
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NZ1 11113088 |
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