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BL
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703295
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b525484
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| Main Entry
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Dutton, Donald G.,1943-
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| Title & Author
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The domestic assault of women : : psychological and criminal justice perspectives /\ Donald G. Dutton.
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| Edition Statement
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Rev. and expanded ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Vancouver :: UBC Press,, c1995.
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x, 337 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm.
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| ISBN
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0774804629 (acid-free paper)
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: 9780774804622 (acid-free paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-323) and indexes.
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| Contents
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- History and incidence of wife assault -- Explanations for wife assault: psychiatry, sociobiology, and sociology -- The social psyscology of the wife assaulter: the theory -- The social psychology of the wife assaulter: the research studies -- The abusive personality -- Effects on the victim -- Traumatic bonding -- The criminal justice response to wife assult -- The treatment of wife assult -- The future -- Notes -- References -- Indexes.
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| Abstract
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Annotation. Duton (director, Assultive Husbands Program, Vancouver) looks at the causes and effects of wife assault and its relationship tp criminal justice policy. He explores the psychology of assaultive males and the dynamics of the victim/abuser relationship, and discusses treatment and the criminal justice response to the crime. This revised edition is updated from 1988 and includes an expanded history of famiily violence social policy, plus new chapters on traumatic bonding and the battered-women syndrome. Of interest to professionals. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Abused wives.
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Wife abuse-- Investigation.
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Wife abuse-- Psychological aspects.
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| Dewey Classification
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364.1/5553
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HV6626.D87 1995
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