Family violence ha. s been receiving increasing attention from citizens, policymakers, the
media, and the criminal justice system. This report looks at the difficulties in estimating the�…

Abstract THESE ESSAYS ARE THE PRODUCT OF THREE CLOSELY RELATED
RESEARCH PROJECTS WHICH FOCUSED ON THE FOLLOWING ISSUES:(1) THE�…

Summary This Issues Paper reviews some of the available sources of data on family
violence, assesses strengths and limitations of these data sources for measuring trends in�…

This chapter reviews research on family violence. Once viewed as rare and confined to a
few mentally ill offenders, family violence has rapidly captured public and social scientific�…

Family violence is hard for most people to understand. The fact that we are more likely to be
killed or assaulted by family members than anyone else seems incredible. Yet for many�…

In the last decade there has been heightened clinical and investigative activity in the area of
family violence. This, of course, is partly attributable to recent surveys showing a high�…

In the last decade there has been heightened clinical and investigative activity in the area of
family violence. This, of course, is partly attributable to recent surveys showing a high�…

RICHARD J. GELLES ver the last three decades, family and intimate violence has been
transformed from an issue obscured by selective inattention to a problem that receives�…

This compendium contains the most recent family violence statistics from these sources:
surveys conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the BJS database of Federal�…

This paper reviews research on family violence in the seventies. The issue of family violence
became increasingly visible as a social and family issue in the decade of the seventies�…