The Violent Couple

by William A. Stacey, Anson Shupe, Lonnie R. Hazlewood, et al.

This book offers a social movement perspective on family violence, framing the discovery of abuse toward women and men as a natural development flowing out of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. It combines clinical and statistical methods to yield a sophisticated understanding of the dynamics underlying spousal violence. It examines both men's violence and the violence of their female partners, both psychological as well as physical. The problem...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275946983
• ISBN13: 9780275946982
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"