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Women in the Middle: The Intersection of Domestic Violence and the Child Welfare System [PDF]
Columbia Social Work Review, 2007 In families affected by domestic violence, women are typically both the battered party and the parent most likely to be responsible for the caretaking of children.
Brown, Elizabeth
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Battered women's cognitive schemata [PDF]
Journal of Traumatic Stress, 1994 AbstractThis study examined battered women's cognitive schema in relation to their cognitions about violence (i.e., the “meaning” attached to the violence), post‐traumatic reactions to violence, and sexual victimization histories. Seventy‐two battered women seeking help from an outpatient family violence clinic were subjects.
Dutton, Mary Ann +4 more
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THE SOCIOLOGY OF BATTERED WOMEN [PDF]
IBT Journal of Business Studies, 2009 This paper undertakes to examine the hitherto neglected but nevertheless important area of Research , the Sociology of Battered Women. As there are very few researches in Sociological Literature in this area, particularly from the Indian perspective, hence a study in this direction in Kanpur City was carried out.
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Rational Actors, Self-Defense, and Duress: Making Sense, Not Syndromes, out of the Battered Woman [PDF]
, 2002 Current advocacy on behalf of battered women accused of criminal offenses focuses on the now familiar battered woman syndrome theory. Although the battered woman syndrome theory has enjoyed broad support when asserted by defendants claiming self-defense,
Burke, Alafair S.
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Weapons in the Lives of Battered Women
American Journal of Public Health, 2004 Objectives. We assessed weapon use in intimate partner violence and perspectives on hypothetical firearm policies. Methods. We conducted structured in-person interviews with 417 women in 67 battered women’s shelters. Results. Words, hands/fists, and feet were the most common weapons used against and by battered women. About one third of the battered
Sorenson, Susan B, Wiebe, Douglas J
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Fighting Domestic Violence in the Nation’s Capital [PDF]
, 1995 Every year, in the District of Columbia alone, the Metropolitan Police Department receives more than 18,000 calls for help from victims of domestic violence, and more than 2,500 battered women bring legal actions requesting protection from their abusers.
Epstein, Deborah
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EDUCATIONAL EMPOWERMENT OF BATTERED WOMEN: WHAT KNOWLEDGE DO THEY REALLY NEED? [PDF]
, 2019 When most women seek independence, self-realization and responsibility for their own destiny, battered women tend to be dependent, passive and seek for emotional and physical support.
Gelbūdienė, Edita
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Dispelling the Myths About the Battered Woman\u27s Defense: Towards a New Understanding [PDF]
, 1992 This essay explores the growth of the use of self-defense by battered women from a historical perspective in order to explain the magnitude of the prejudices these defendants face.
Dowd, Michael
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Battered Women\u27s Compliance-Gaining Strategies as a Function of Argumentativeness and Verbal Aggression [PDF]
, 1994 This study investigated (1) the type of compliance-gaining strategies that battered women reported using in domestic conflicts and (2) whether these strategies related to the battered women\u27s verbal aggression and argumentativeness.
Beatty, Michael J. +2 more
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The Unhappy Marriage of Theory and Practice: An Analysis of a Battered Women\u27s Shelter [PDF]
, 1988 Focuses on the role of battered women\u27s shelters in the U.S. as a response to the problem of violence against women in society. Examination of the battered women\u27s movement and the shelters the movement has spawned; Contradictions between feminist ...
Murray, Susan B
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