Abused and Battered : Social and Legal Responses to Family Violence Book

List of Contributors     vii
Preface     ix
Introduction: Some Fundamental Issues     xi
Conceptualization and Empirical Study
Family Violence Research: Some Basic and Applied Questions   JoAnn L. Miller     5
Physical Violence in American Families: Incidence Rates, Causes, and Trends   Murray A. Straus     17
Public-Health Conceptions of Family Abuse   Jacquelyn C. Campbell     35
Variations in Defining Family Mistreatment: A Community Survey   Stephen W. Webster     49
Criminal-Justice Processing of Violent and Nonviolent Offenders: The Effects of Familial Relationship to the Victim   Sharon D. Herzberger   Noreen L. Channels     63
Effects of Victimization
An Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse and Consequent Victimization: Some Implications of Telephone Surveys   John E. Murphy     79
The Mixed Roles of Social Support and Social Obstruction in Recovery from Child Abuse   Diana Gurley     89
The Admissibility of Expert Testimony on the Battered-Woman Syndrome   Debra F. Kromsky   Brian L. Cutler     101
Social Responses to Family Violence: Batterers and Their Victims
The Outcome of Participation in a Shelter-Sponsored Program for Men Who Batter   Richard M. Tolman   Gauri Bhosley     113
Removal of the Perpetrator versus Removal of the Victim in Cases of Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse   Patricia Ryan   Bruce L. Warren   Peggy Weincek     123
Perceptions of Verbal Aggression in Interspousal Violence   Teresa Chandler Sabourin     135
Legal Responses to Family Violence
Police Classification of Domestic-Violence Calls: An Assessment of Program Impact   Richard K. Caputo     147
Legal Responses of Prosecutors to Child Sexual Abuse: A Case Comparison of Two Countries   Bruce K. Mac Murray     153
Family Violence and the Courts: Implementing a Comprehensive New Law   Eleanor Lyon   Patricia Goth Mace     167
Improving the Investigation and Prosecution of Child Sexual-Abuse Cases: Research Findings, Questions, and Implications for Public Policy   Debra Whitcomb     181
Preventing and Provoking Wife Battery through Criminal Sanctions: A Look at the Risks   David A. Ford     191
References     211
Index     231