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The Dynamics of Battering Revisited
Alice Chornesky explains that, since there are a variety of reasons why women are abused by their partners, it is difficult to find the proper intervention methods that will help women out of these violent relationships. The author uses attachement theory and theories of connection and relationship to investigate the reasons why abusive relationships are persisting in society. -
Controversies Involving Gender and Intimate Partner Violence in the United States
Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling writes a paper that address five controversial topics that involve gender and U.S. intimate partner violence. In this article, she cites evidence that support one of her three theses that claims the recognition of gender-related challenges will help improve policies, treatment, and working models of domestic violence. -
Implementing Dating Violence Prevention Programs
Patricia Kerig asserts that communities are becoming more and more aware of the health and mental risks of domestic violence, especially so in young adults. While there has been support for a large amount of these programs, reviews of these programs have criitiqued that there are shortcomings to these projects, with one complaint involving a lack of attention to issues of diversity. -
Domestic Violence in Men's and Women's Magazines
Pamela Hill Nettleton addresses the attitude specific men and women's magazines have towards domestic violence. Using qualitative narrative analysis towards these magazines for the past ten years, she asserts that there is an inequality of responsibility that both genders have toward the issue of violent relationships. -
Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence: A Historical Review
John R. Barner presents a historical overview of the evolution and development of the persepectives towards domestic violence in fields such as law enforcement and social sciences. Alongside this, he identifies current collaborative interventions, and cites research into current findings of intimate partner violence interventions. -
Exit Myth: Family Law, Gender Roles, and Changing Attitudes
Carolyn B. Ramsey takes a look at how law enforcement has changed their attitude towards domestic violence towards women over time; the change is observed from as far as back as the 1920s, when women were considered less capable under the limitations of the law, to recent years when women became viewed as more capable through the eyes of the courts.