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Intimate partner violence：societal, medical, legal, and individual responses

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Loue Sana
Published: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: c2001.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Issues in women's health
Subjects:
Marital violence > United States
Marital violence > United States > Prevention
Violence entre conjoints
Violence entre conjoints > États-Unis
Violence entre conjoints > États-Unis > Prévention
Vrouwenmishandeling
Partnerrelaties
Geweld
Mishandeling
Gehuwden
Domestic Violence > prevention & control > United States
Battered Women > psychology > United States
Domestic Violence > legislation & jurisprudence > United States
Domestic Violence > psychology > United States
Family Relations > United States
Marital violence
Carrier Form: xv, 199 p.: ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 0306465191
9780306465192
Index Number: D771
CLC: D771.281
C913.1
Call Number: C913.1/L886
Contents: Donation.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-191) and index.
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.

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