Intimate Partner Violence Societal, Medical, Legal, and Individual Responses /

• Main Author: Loue, Sana (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2001.
• Series: Women’s Health Issues
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Public health.; Health promotion.; Epidemiology.; Criminal law.; Criminology.; Psychology.; Social Sciences.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Public Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Law and Psychology.; Criminal Law.

It is clear that physical abuse is an integral component of some intimate relationships. This book addresses not the violence but our responses or lack of responses to that violation of personal integrity and the accompanying trauma. How partner violence is responded to, individually and collectivel...