Encyclopedia of domestic violence
By: Nicky Ali Jackson, editor.
Contributors: Jackson, Nicky Ali.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 789
ISBN-13: 9780415969680
Subjects: Family violence -- Encyclopedias
Genres: Encyclopedias.
Other titles: Domestic violence
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.