Domestic Violence - A Reference Handbook

This thoroughly revised second edition is an examination of domestic violence from social, legal, and historical perspectives. Domestic Violence: A Reference Handbook provides straightforward and objective coverage that considers all aspects of the issue through a careful combination of facts, statistics, case studies, and victims'' stories. This volume in ABC-CLIO''s Contemporary World Issues series examines the causes and historical roots of domestic violence, providing the facts and analyses to foster a better understanding. The work analyzes the complex dynamics of domestic violence from three perspectives-legal, social, and psychological. This reference is an important source of information for those touched by domestic violence and for those seeking to understand it.

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Margi Laird McCue

Product details

• Authors: Margi Laird McCue, McCue Margi Laird
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2007
• EAN: 9781851097791
• ISBN: 978-1-85109-779-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Contemporary World Issues; Contemporary World Issues (Har; Contemporary World Issues
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Crime, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Reference works, domestic violence, Domestic abuse