Family Violence in the United States: Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse [Paperback]

Denise A. Hines (Author), Kathleen Malley-Morrison (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0761930868 | ISBN-13: 978-0761930860 | Edition: 1

Family Violence in the United States: Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse examines all types of family aggression. The book is designed to provoke readers into questioning assumptions, evaluating information, formulating hypotheses, and designing solutions to problems of family violence in the United States. Using an ecological framework, authors Denise A. Hines and Kathleen Malley-Morrison provide a thought-provoking and informative discussion not only of the most well-recognized forms of maltreatment in families, but also of less understood and more controversial issues such as husband abuse, parent abuse, and gay/lesbian abuse.

 

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"One of the major achievements of social science in the past 25 years is the increased understanding of the causes and consequences of family violence. However, students are likely to experience this accumulated body of knowledge as an impenetrable thicket of statistics and theories. Hines and Malley-Morrison’s book cuts through the thicket. It is both scientifically accurate and readable. Throughout the book there are challenging questions to help students move from passive reading to intellectual engagement. Moreover, they combine scientific integrity with compassion for victims and attention to ways to end this ancient scourge."

(Murray A. Straus )

About the Author

Kathleen Malley-Morrison, Ed.D., is a Professor of Psychology at Boston University. She has conducted considerable research on family violence since 1980 when she was a postdoctoral fellow on the family violence team at Children's Hospital in Boston. She regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses focusing on family violence. She is the lead author Treating Child Abuse: Family Violence in Hospitals, along with Eli Newberger, Richard Bourne, and Jane Snyder. She has also co-authored Studying Families (SAGE, 1991) with with Anne Copeland, and Family Violence in a Cultural Perspective (SAGE, 2004), with Denise Hines. Her current focus is primarily on cross-cultural and international perspectives on family violence and abuse.

Denise A. Hines received her Ph.D. in the Human Development Program in the Psychology Department at Boston University. Her dissertation, a behavioral genetic study of aggression in intimate relationships, was supported by an individual National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. Her primary research interests include genetic influences on aggressive behaviors in family relationships, female-perpetrated family aggression, and cultural influences on family violence. She has several publications on these topics, including a book from SAGE entitled Family Violence in a Cultural Perspective (2004), and she has made numerous conference presentations relating to issues in family violence. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Family Research Laboratory and Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, along with Murray Straus and David Finkelhor.

Product Details

• Paperback: 424 pages
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; 1 edition (December 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761930868
• ISBN-13: 978-0761930860
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #315,999 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a necessity, December 29, 2008

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There are many textbooks that students sell back at the end of the quarter, but for me and many of my classmates this was not one of them. This book provided me with a much deeper understanding of domestic violence and helped me form a better understaning of how to deal with the issue professionally. This book is extremely informative and is a must-read for anyone in the mental health field.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Family Violence in the US - must read, November 19, 2009

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This text arrived just in time. Perfect condition with no writing inside. It was an interesting read as well ass depressing. A lot of useful statistics with vignettes.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I hated it!, February 10, 2010

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This review is from: Family Violence in the United States: Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse (Paperback)

I hated this book. When the authors weren't manipulating the way they presented statistics so that everything was the worst this or the most frequent that, they were asking more rhetorical questions than providing useful information. Even my professor, who had no choice in the textbook, based the final exam entirely on her lectures - thankfully there was no real need to finish reading the book!