A combination text and reader addres-sing a much-needed topic. This cutting-edge and provocative text, written from a feminist perspective, concentrates on women's experiences of victimization--specifically battering. Eigenberg includes informative articles that enhance and complement the fundamental con-cepts presented in the book. Like other types of violence against women, battering has long been ignored by academics, professionals, and policymakers who focus instead on violent, ran-dom crime committed by strangers. This much-needed volume, appropriate for both under-graduate and graduate courses, challenges readers to think critically about the social construction of crime--how social definitions of crime might change if the magnitude and seriousness of woman battering were addressed. Salient features: 1) demonstrates how a feminist, social constructionist perspective on women battering differs from other perspectives; 2) shows ways in which woman battering serves as a means of social control; and 3) examines how society minimalizes the extent and magnitude of woman battering.
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Complete background and understanding if women battering.,
This review is from: Woman Battering in the United States: Till Death Do Us Part (Paperback)
This is a most comprehensive look at a lifetime of work done by the author. I have been privileged to take her classes and have her mentor a thesis. This book explains sensitive topics completely and thoroughly with the history of women battering throughout the U.S. and yet is easy to read and understand for the layman or professional. Used as a textbook, this book goes far beyond that and into the understanding of batterers and the women they hurt and attempts to explain the unanswered question of "why." Further, the book explains the history of treatment programs, types and outcomes. A must read for anyone who is battered, knows someone who is, the student, and the general public.
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The United States continues to arrest and imprison more of its citizens than almost any other nation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
achieving nonviolence, national domestic violence hotline number, battering cases, family violence perspective, gender statuses, domestic violence convictions, barterer intervention, woman battering, gender animus, tic assaults, changing criminal justice response, police deviance, risk suspects, domestic assault cases, domestic violence policy, requiring arrest, mandatory arrest laws, domestic violence training, arrest decisions, victim preference, domestic violence policies, civil protection orders, family violence research, criminal justice system response, domestic abuse cases Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, World Wide Web, Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks, Beverly Hills, Lautenberg Act, Feminist Majority Foundation, Free Press, National Crime Victimization Survey, Prospect Heights, San Francisco, Violence Against Women Act, American Medical Association, International Association of Chiefs of Police, Waveland Press, Retrieved September, American Journal of Police, Colorado Springs, Retrieved February, Violence Against Women Office, African American, Kegan Paul, Lexington Books, New Brunswick New!
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