This chapter reviews research on family violence. Once viewed as rare and confined to a
few mentally ill offenders, family violence has rapidly captured public and social scientific …

Child physical abuse (CPA) is a pervasive societal problem with serious outcomes.
Understanding CPA risk factors is necessary to identify those at risk for CPA perpetration …

Background Family violence (including intimate partner violence/domestic violence, child
abuse, and elder abuse) is a hidden pandemic happening alongside COVID-19. The rates …

RESUMEN A partir del análisis del Estudio nacional sobre violencias contra las mujeres,
realizado en Argentina, en 2015, se identifican los factores de riesgo que incrementan la …

The construct of Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS) has been conceptualized as a
subcategory of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is composed of the following …

We investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic violence and family stress. Our
empirical analysis relies on a unique online survey, Canadian Perspective Survey Series …

This is the fully revised and updated Third Edition of one of the top books on domestic
violence. Eve S Buzawa and Carl G Buzawa have incorporated a wealth of new empirical …

Sociological theories of intimate partner violence seek to explain violent behavior as a
function of social structures rather than individual pathology. This review examines the major …

Streamlined and updated throughout with state-of-the-art information, this Third Edition of
the authors' bestselling book gives readers an accessible introduction to the methodology …

This research applies the social disorganization perspective on the neighborhood‐level
determinants of crime to partner violence. The analysis brings data from the 1990 Decennial …