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9781412805919

Behind Closed Doors: Violence in the American Family

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  • ISBN13:

    9781412805919

  • ISBN10:

    1412805910

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2006-04-30
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

The marriage license as a hitting license, child abuse, sibling war –Behind Closed Doors is the unprecedented national survey of the extent, patterns, and causes of violence in the American family. Based on a seven-year study of over 2,000 families, the authors provide landmark insights into this phenomenon of violence and what causes Americans to inflict it on their family members.

Author Biography

Murray A. Straus is the founder and co-director of the Family Research Laboratory and professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Transaction Edition vii
Foreword xxvii
Acknowledgments xxix
Part I. The Issues
Violence in the Home
3(28)
Part II. The Violent Family
The Marriage License as a Hitting License
31(20)
Spare the Rod?
51(25)
Kids Will Be Kids: Violence Between Brothers and Sisters
76(21)
Part III. Social Patterns in Family Violence
The Social Heredity of Family Violence
97(26)
Who Are the Violent Americans?
123(32)
Part IV. Some Immediate Causes
Marital Conflict and Marital Violence
155(19)
Violent Families: Children, Stress, and Power
174(27)
Part V. The Future
The Social Causes of Family Violence: Putting the Pieces Together
201(20)
Toward Reducing Family Violence: Band-Aids, Ambulances, and Solutions
221(24)
Notes 245(6)
Appendix A. Sample and Interviewing 251(2)
Appendix B. Measuring Violence with the ``Conflict Tactics Scales'' 253(14)
Appendix C. Indexes Used to Measure Conflict, Power, and Stress 267(6)
References 273(12)
Index 285

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