Title: Encyclopedia of domestic violence /
Authors: Jackson, Nicky Ali.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Domestic Violence; Family violence Encyclopedias.
Abstract: Here you will find discussions of battered wives, battered husbands, parricide, dating violence, and domestic violence in the workplace. Theoretical perspectives and correlates of domestic violence are discussed, including animal abuse, batterer typology, exchange theory, post-incest syndrome, popular culture and domestic violence, and victim-blaming theory. Cross-cultural and religious perspectives are presented, including domestic violence in Greece, cultural dimensions of domestic violence amongst Asian Americans, Qur'anic perspectives on wife abuse, religious attitudes towards corporal punishment. The entries also include discussion of understudied areas and "special" topics, including lesbian battering, domestic violence by law enforcement officers, pseudo-family abuse, sexual aggression perpetrated by females, community response to domestic violence, and measuring domestic violence. Child abuse and elder abuse are the subjects of a number of entries and the final category of entries provides coverage of issues related to domestic violence and the law.
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 --^