Physical Violence in American Families: Risk Factors and Adaptations to Violence in 8,145 Families

ISBN-13: 9781138529878 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 622 str.

Murray Straus

Opis

The informative and controversial findings in this book are based on two path-breaking national surveys of American families

Spis treści

I: Researching Family Violence; 1: The National Family Violence Surveys; 2: Methodological Issues in the Study of Family Violence; 3: Measuring Intrafamily Conflict and Violence: The Conflict Tactics (CT) Scales; 4: The Conflict Tactics Scales and Its Critics: An Evaluation and New Data on Validity and Reliability; 5: Injury and Frequency of Assault and the “Representative Sample Fallacy” in Measuring Wife Beating and Child Abuse; II: Incidence and Trends; 6: How Violent Are American Families? Estimates from the National Family Violence Resurvey and Other Studies; 7: Societal Change and Change in Family Violence from 1975 to 1985 As Revealed by Two National Surveys; 8: Physical Punishment and Physical Abuse of American Children: Incidence Rates by Age, Gender, and Occupational Class; III: The Social Psychology of Family Violence; 9: Gender Differences in Reporting Marital Violence and Its Medical and Psychological Consequences; 10: Some Social Structure Determinants of Inconsistency between Attitudes and Behavior: The Case of Family Violence; 11: Social Stress and Marital Violence in a National Sample of American Families; 12: The “Drunken Bum” Theory of Wife Beating; IV: Family Organization and Family Violence; 13: The Marriage License as a Hitting License: A Comparison of Assaults in Dating, Cohabiting, and Married Couples; 14: Family Patterns and Child Abuse; 15: Maternal Employment and Violence toward Children; 16: Violence and Pregnancy: Are Pregnant Women at Greater Risk of Abuse?; 17: Marital Power, Conflict, and Violence in a Nationally Representative Sample of American Couples; 18: Marital Violence in a Life Course Perspective; V: Violence and the Structure of Society; 19: Race, Class, Network Embeddedness, and Family Violence: A Search for Potent Support Systems; 20: Violence in Hispanic Families in the United States: Incidence Rates and Structural Interpretations; 21: Wife’s Marital Dependency and Wife Abuse; 22: Patriarchy and Violence against Wives: The Impact of Structural and Normative Factors; VI: The Aftermath of Family Violence: Coping and Consequences of Violence; 23: Ordinary Violence, Child Abuse, and Wife Beating: What Do They Have in Common?; 24: The Medical and Psychological Costs of Family Violence; 25: Intrafamily Violence and Crime and Violence Outside the Family; VII: Stopping Family Violence; 26: Response of Victims and the Police to Assaults on Wives; 27: Escalation and Desistance from Wife Assault in Marriage; 28: Family Patterns and Primary Prevention of Family Violence

O autorze

Murray Straus