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Author Loue, Sana.

Title Intimate partner violence : societal, medical, legal, and individual responses / Sana Loue.

Imprint New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2001.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  362.8292 L927i    ---  Available
Description xv, 199 p. ; 26 cm.
Series Issues in women's health (Kluwer Academic Publishers)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-191) and index.
Contents Definition and epidemiology of intimate partner violence -- Theories of causation -- How women and men define experiences of violence and its causes -- Violence as deviance? The societal response -- Responses of the helping professions -- Legal response -- Responses of the batterer -- Responses of the battered -- Children exposed to partner violence : their responses -- Looking towards the future : research, prevention, and the provision of services -- Conclusion.
Subject Marital violence.
Marital violence -- Prevention.
ISBN 0306465191

 
    
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