Family Violence: Legal, Medical, and Social Perspectives

by Harvey Wallace

Family Violence: Legal, Medical, and Social Perspectives examines the entire spectrum of family violence, focusing on social processes and social relationships.

The Ninth Edition of Family Violence is a comprehensive updated version of the classic text on family violence. In addition to the updates to each chapter, the new edition features new research, comments, and discussions on the #MeToo Movement, same gender couples, elder abuse, stalking, partner abuse, and law enforcement's updated responses to these incidents. The new edition, however, still retains the coverage of the seminal research studies that are the bases of popular theories on partner and family violence. In the new edition, the authors have sought to make the material more understandable to the readers so that instructors will not need to waste valuable class time explaining the text.

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction, Psychology

570 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Susan Marie · Rating 5 out of 5]

A full circle book, originally needed to read for Psych, however, this book is an excellent resource for anyone attempting to understand abuse and violence within family, intimate-partner, partner, child, sibling, elder abuse and domestic violence by focusing on psychological, socio-cultural, and socio-economic causes with a focus on law, case studies, same-sex and heterosexual abuse. Excellent book. Opened my eyes to the various levels of violence that lead to abuse. Sadly, most of us experience violence, which begins with yelling and throwing things, as the first level of abuse in a relationship. Disturbing book, but necessary to understand abuse on every level.

[Mindi Beal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fourth edition. Read this in preparation for an upcoming job/career shift. Many of the chapters were exactly what I needed which was an introduction to the basic topics of child abuse and family violence. Of particular helpfulness was the discussion of the role of professionals in this field.

Some parts of the book were repetitious and relied heavily on citing statistics that were either discounted in the next paragraph, did not make sense, or were generally ineffective in furthering an understanding of the subject. Also, and somewhat conversely, some topics felt a bit overgeneralized which may be a commentary about more of what I was in search of versus a fault on the part of the writer.

[Kathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

The seventh edition is a clear and concise handbook for introducing family violence. Well written and full of useful information.