LaViolette, Alyce D.
Los Angeles, California : SAGE, [2014];©2014
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-308) and index.
- The widely read and highly praised bestseller It Could Happen to Anyone offers a unique amalgamation of the practical clinical experience of Alyce LaViolette and the extensive research of Ola Barnett on battered women and their batterers. Fully updated and revised, this Third Edition includes a wealth of new material and case examples, while retained sections have been carefully rewritten to reflect contemporary thinking. This important text continues to provide understanding and empathy regarding the plight of battered women as they attempt to find safety. The integration of current knowledge with learning theory explains how any woman’s previous life experiences along with the effects of battering might influence her to stay with her abuser. The book’s content also explains how some social institutions, such as the criminal justice system, cannot be counted upon to protect her, thus making it dangerous for her to leave or stay. In extreme cases, she may even be killed. From a more optimistic viewpoint, the book describes many innovations geared to assist battered women through shelters, transitional housing, and temporary income support. This extensively revised and expanded new edition is a must read for anyone working in or training to work in a helping role for issues in domestic violence. – Publisher.
- List of case studies — Foreword — Acknowledgments — Introduction: — History of the battered women’s movement — Domestic violence: the facts — Statistics on violence against women: — Statistics of intimate partner abuse among racial and ethnic groups in the United States — Statistics of intimate partner abuse within cross-cultural and global communities — Intimate partner violence within special populations — Truths of domestic violence: — Patterns of violence — Reality of domestic violence — Understanding battered women — Why does she stay? — Weaving The Fabric Of Abuse: Learned Helplessness And Learned Hopelessness: — Socialization: — Affiliation and socialization — Sexism — Sexism and power — Cultural support for male-to female violence: — Change of attitude — Sexism and therapy — Practice and policy with immigrants — Is it safe to use couples or family therapy with abusive couples? — Families: — Overlap of intimate partner abuse and child abuse — Children exposed to marital violence — Learning to be violent: — Social learning — Childhood socialization — Role of learning and the pattern of violence — Walker’s cycle of violence theory — Learned hopefulness — Relationship commitment — Marital satisfaction — Failure to recognize abuse — Approach-avoidance conflict and entrapment — Summary — Institutional Battering: The Power Of The Patriarchy: — Below the poverty line and below the belt — Economic dependence and remaining with an abuser — Maslow’s hierarchy of needs — Religion — Clergy’s responses to intimate partner violence — Morality: a reason for staying — Failure of military responses to intimate partner violence — Sexual assault in battering relationships — Justice and the system: — Police policies concerning intimate partner violence — Research on police policies — Need for rational consequences for IPV offenders: — Concerns about police discretion — Mandatory arrest — Dual arrest — Domestic Abuse Response Teams (Darts) — Community IPV response te
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