Intimate Violence : A Study of Injustice / Julie Blackman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackman, Julie, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1989]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Considers the social processes that have fostered attention to the problem of intimate violence, the nature of the injustice, and the characteristics and experiences of victims and non-victims in relation to specific research questions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. The Emergence of Intimate Violence as A Social Problem

2. Perceptions of Injustice

3. Self-Perceptions of Battered Women, Abused Children and Rape Survivors

4. Recognizing Alternatives and Seeing Paradoxes

5. Methodological Issues and How This Study Was Done

6. The Survey Results

7. On Thinking About Justice, Violence and Conflict

8. Coping: Feelings, Personality Characteristics, Thoughts and Actions

9. The Perception of Alternatives

10. A Complex Chorus: Summarizing the Findings

11. Applying Research on Intimate Violence: Expert Testimony in Cases of Battered Women Who Kill

Appendix A: The Newspaper Survey

Appendix B: The Interview Schedule

Appendix C: The Newspaper Article Reporting the Results of the Survey

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88462-1

OCLC:

1100458489