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Family Violence: Legal, Medical, and Social Perspectives

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Harvey Wallace's text book, which is being used in my Seminar:Domestic Violence Course, is a wonderful source of information about all types of domestic abuse. The extensive coverage on the many forms of child abuse is an excellent source of information for all careers, especially social workers, teachers, school psychologists, and future or current parents. I am also very glad to see that Wallace includes Elder Abuse and Gay and Lesbian Abuse in his book, types of domestic violence which often go overlooked.

I really found this book helpful and full of information. I used it for a class that I was taking called family violence and abuse. Wallace does an excellent job outlining indicators of child abuse and he also provides different catergories of abuse such as elder abuse and alternative life style abuse. I often find myself struggling to use books assigned to each class because sometimes they are just not useful. I have spent lots of money on class texts that I have not opened once. THIS WAS NOT THE CASE WITH THIS BOOK. IT WAS VERY USEFUL.

There is an apparent dearth of recent textbooks dealing with family/intimate violence, because my professor's selection of this book was appaling. By turns dumbed-down, full of tautologies, facile, and jargon-laden. A professor who isn't lazy would better serve her students by collecting the publicly-available reports (or summaries) and statistics that are all this book has to offer.

Fast, reliable service. book in promised condition. Would definitely purchase from seller again. Thanks.
Martine

This book is a good book. It helps teach the understandings of child abuse. This book is outdated though as many books now are due to the internet.