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Paperback edition. |
| Description |
xxii, 622 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The national family violence surveys / Murray A. Straus -- Methodological issues in the study of family violence / Richard J. Gelles -- Measuring intrafamily conflict and violence : the Conflict Tactics (CT) Scales ; The Conflict Tactics Scales and its critics : an evaluation and new data on validity and reliability ; Injury and frequency of assault and the "representative sample fallacy" in measuring wife beating and child abuse / Murray A. Straus -- How violent are |
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American families? Estimates from the National Family Violence Resurvey and other studies ; Societal change and change in family violence from 1975 to 1985 as revealed by two national surveys / Murray A. Straus and Richard J. Gelles -- Physical punishment and physical abuse of American children : incidence rates by age, gender, and occupational class / Barbara A. Wauchope and Murray A. Straus -- Gender differences in reporting marital violence and its medical and |
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psychological consequences / Jan E. Stets and Murray A. Straus -- Some social structure determinants of inconsistency between attitudes and behavior : the case of family violence / Ursula Dibble and Murray A. Straus -- Social stress and marital violence in a national sample of American families / Murray A. Straus -- The "drunken bum" theory of wife beating / Glenda Kaufman Kantor and Murray A. Straus -- The marriage license as a hitting license : a comparison of assaults |
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in dating, cohabiting, and married couples / Jan E. Stets and Murray A. Straus -- Family patterns and child abuse / Murray A. Straus and Christine Smith -- Maternal employment and violence toward children / Richard J. Gelles and Eileen F. Hargreaves -- Violence and pregnancy : are pregnant women at greater risk of abuse? / Richard J. Gelles -- Marital power, conflict, and violence in a nationally representative sample of American couples / Diane H. Coleman and Murray A. |
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Straus -- Marital violence in a life course perspective / J. Jill Suitor, Karl Pillemer, and Murray A. Straus -- Race, class, network embeddedness, and family violence : a search for potent support systems / Noel A. Cazenave and Murray A. Straus -- Violence in Hispanic families in the United States : incidence rates and structural interpretations / Murray A. Straus and Christine Smith -- Wife's marital dependency and wife abuse / Debra S. Kalmuss and Murray A. Straus |
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--Patriarchy and violence against wives : the impact of structural and normative factors / Kersti A. Yllo and Murray A. Straus -- Ordinary violence, child abuse, and wife beating : what do they have in common? / Murray A. Straus -- The medical and psychological costs of family violence / Richard J. Gelles and Murray A. Straus -- Intrafamily violence and crime and violence outside the family / Gerald T. Hotaling and Murray A. Straus with Alan J. Lincoln -- Response of |
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victims and the police to assaults on wives / Glenda Kaufman Kantor and Murray A. Straus -- Escalation and desistance from wife assault in marriage / Scott L. Feld and Murray A. Straus -- Family patterns and primary prevention of family violence / Murray A. Straus and Christine Smith -- Appendix A. Sample design and comparability of the two national surveys / Richard J. Gelles and Murray A. Straus -- Appendix B. New scoring methods for violence and new norms for the |
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Conflict Tactics Scales / Murray A. Straus. |
| Subject |
Family violence -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Gelles, Richard J.
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Smith, Christine, 1957-
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| ISBN |
1560008288 |
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