NCJ Number
100818
Editor(s)
M Lystad
Date Published
1986
Length
348 pages
Annotation
This interdisciplinary volume presents an overview chapter and 12 papers focusing on family violence from 4 major perspectives: violence and American society, causes of family violence, clinical intervention programs, and community intervention programs.
Abstract
Discussions of societal factors describe the increasing role of violence in American society as a whole, the changing role of the family, and distinguishing characteristics of the violent family. Examinations of causes trace the psychological, social and structural, and cultural bases of family violence. Chapters on clinical intervention programs focus on services that have been used for individual adult and child victims and witnesses of physical battering and neglect, sexual abuse, and homicide. Articles on community intervention programs report on broad-based efforts, including prosecutorial programs for batterers, programs to reduce stresses and risks and improve family functioning, and programs directed at prevention of child sexual abuse. Name index, subject index, chapter reference lists. (Publisher summary modified)