1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458532803321

Titolo

Helping battered women : new perspectives and remedies / / edited by Albert R. Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

1-280-45111-4

0-19-802559-9

1-60256-035-8

Edizione

[New Edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 247 p. )

Disciplina

362.82/928/0973

Soggetti

Abused wives - Services for - United States

Abused women - Services for - United States

Social work with women - United States

Wife abuse - United States - Prevention

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : myths and realities regarding battered women / Albert R. Roberts -- Social action for battered women / Susan E. Roche and Pam J. Sadoski -- A comparative analysis of incarcerated battered women and a community sample of battered women / Albert R. Roberts -- Social work and criminal justice responses to elder abuse in New York City / Patricia Brownell -- Domestic violence and woman battering : theories and practice implications / Diane C. Dwyer [and others] -- Police responses to battered women : past, present, and future ; Court responses to battered women / Albert R. Roberts --The criminalization of woman battering : planned change experiences in New York State / Lisa A. Frisch and Joseph M. Caruso -- Battered women, homicide, and the legal system / Mindy B. Mechanic -- Shelter-based crisis intervention with battered women / Sophia F. Dziegielewski, Cheryl Resnick, and Nora B. Krause -- Children of battered women : research, programs, and services / Bonnie E. Carlson -- Mental health



interventions with battered women / Patricia A. Petretic-Jackson and Thomas Jackson -- The false connection between adult domestic violence and alcohol / Theresa M. Zubretsky and Karla M. Digirolamo -- Latina battered women : barriers to service delivery and cultural considerations / Gloria Bonilla-Santiago -- Epilogue : helping battered women / Ann A. Abbott.

Sommario/riassunto

Provides the most current, empirically-based and realistic overview of policies and intervention methods, combining a rich array of perspectives by professors and scholars in the fields of social work, criminology, and clinical psychology. The book focuses on a full range of policies and programs which include case management service models, 24-hour hotlines and crisis intervention programs, social worker-police collaboration, mandated arrest of batterers, electronic technology, and group/play therapy for the children of battered women, methods which are all effective in breaking the inter-generational cycle of abuse.