Understanding Violence Against Women

Violence against women is one factor in the growing wave of alarm about violence in American society. Understanding Violence Against Women presents a comprehensive overview of current knowledge and identifies four areas with the greatest potential return from a research investment by increasing the understanding of and responding to domestic violence and rape. This book provides direction for increasing knowledge that can help ameliorate this national problem.

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Identifies four areas with the potential return from a research investment by increasing the understanding of and responding to domestic violence and rape: what interventions are designed to do, whom they are reaching, and how to reach the many victims who do not seek help; factors that put people at risk of violence and that precipitate violence.

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• Authors: Commission on Behavioral and Social Scie, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division Of Behavioral And Social Scienc, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Natl Research Coun, Panel on Research on Violence Against Wo, Panel on Research on Violence Against Women
• Assisted by: Ann W Burgess (Editor), Ann W. Burgess (Editor), Nancy A Crowell (Editor), Nancy A. Crowell (Editor)
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.07.1996
• EAN: 9780309054256
• ISBN: 978-0-309-05425-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 238 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 562 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories