Graduate Research Assistants, Gregory Ungar and Jennifer Grotpeter provided support for the conference. The attendees included Scott Henggler, Ph.D., program designer, and program replicators from around the country. Jane Grady attended a meeting of the Violence Prevention Advisory Committee at the Colorado Department of Public Health in Denver. The multi-disciplinary group meets monthly to provide opportunities for education and debate regarding violence and to promote strategies for prevention. The paper discusses a social learning theory model of minor and severe marital violence offending and victimization among males and females was tested.
Results support social learning as an important perspective in marital violence.
However, males and females are impacted differently by their experiences with violence in childhood and adolescence. Prior experiences with violence have a more dramatic impact in the lives of females than males, both during adolescence and adulthood. Mihalic, Sharon and Delbert Elliott. A Social Learning Theory Model of Marital Violence. He is the head of the Center of Geopolitical Studies at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and currently the chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on the World Political Map.