Violence Against Women

628 pages, 34 images, 51 contributors


Violence Against Women examines a wide range of relationships that may be affected by intimate partner violence and takes a culturally sensitive, international approach to issues underpinning family violence, dating violence, and the injuries children suffer when their caregivers perpetrate violence. This text offers insight into a variety of subjects affecting women domestically and internationally.


These subjects include:

—Risk assessment for intimate partner violence

—Safety planning for victims of intimate partner violence

—Criminal prosecution of and protective orders against intimate partner violence

—Homicide and suicide related to intimate partner violence

—Intimate partner violence in China and among Chinese Americans

—Intimate partner violence in LGBTQI relationships
—Occurrence of and intervention in cases of intimate partner violence in the military