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Domestic Violence and Control

By Jan E. Stets Ph.D. (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Year
1988
ISBN
978-0-387-96628-1, 978-1-4613-8760-2
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4613-8760-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2643226 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
166\176
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
general; PsychotherapyPsychology

Description

Domestic Violence and Control provides important longitudinal data on violent relationships and addresses the problem of violence from the perspective of both the perpetrator and the victim. The issue of control emerges as a central theme. Control plays a keyrole, firstly, in organizing the victim's thoughts with regard to the batterer, and, secondly, in cases of repeated acts of violence over a length of time. The study shows acts of violence to be both "impulsive" and "instrumental" and thereby refutes competing explanations in the literature that violence is either "impulsive" or "instrumental."

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