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Intimate partner violence among adolescents : causes and correlates / Valerie A. Clark.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Valerie A., 1981-
- Series:
- Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intimate partner violence--United States.
- Intimate partner violence.
- Dating violence--United States.
- Dating violence.
- Abused teenagers--United States.
- Abused teenagers.
- Teenage girls--Abuse of--United States.
- Teenage girls.
- Abusive men--United States.
- Abusive men.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Clark describes the risks and correlates of intimate partner violence (IPV) among adolescents. Using longitudinal data, she finds that the victim-offender overlap that exists in general violence extends to IPV. Also, Michael Johnson's typology of IPV among adults likely exists among adolescents; sometimes IPV is perpetrated by both partners, and sometimes it is perpetrated by only one. Moreover, IPV victimization is not evenly distributed among adolescents, and more targeted interventions are likely needed to prevent abuse. Clark integrates multiple theories of violence and victimization, incl
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1: General Violence and Intimate Partner Violenceamong Adolescents: Similarities and Differences; CHAPTER 2: An Integrated Theoretical Approach to GeneralViolence and Intimate Partner Violence amongAdolescents; CHAPTER 3: An Overview of the National Longitudinal Studyof Adolescent Health; CHAPTER 4: Adolescent Intimate Partner Violence RiskFactors; CHAPTER 5: Behaviors Associated with Adolescent IntimatePartner Violence Victimization; CHAPTER 6: The Causes and Correlates of Mutual and One-Sided Adolescent Intimate Partner Violence
- CHAPTER 7: Towards an Integrated Model of GeneralViolence and Intimate Partner ViolenceReferences; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781593326296
- 1593326297
- OCLC:
- 822894254
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