Despite numerous studies that report the preponderance of domestic violence is perpetrated
by men against women, other empirical studies suggest that rates of domestic violence by�…

The author of this article presents a review of the published empirical and theoretical
literature to date on similarities and differences in intimate partner violence (IPV) in rural�…

Moving beyond the narrow clinical perspective sometimes applied to viewing the emotional
and developmental risks to battered children, The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact�…

Like its predecessors, this Fifth Edition of The Practice of Research in Criminology and
Criminal Justice (by Ronet Bachman and Russell K. Schutt) provides complete coverage of�…

BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been shown to have serious health
consequences for both women and men, including poor general health, depressive�…

There is an urgent need to identify the factors that impede battered women's flight from
violent relationships. This article is organized into two articles: Part 1 centers on external�…

Batterer programs are at a critical juncture, with a handful of experimental program
evaluations showing little or no effect from the prevailing program approach. This finding has�…

Fundamentals of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice: With Selected Readings, by
well-known researchers Ronet D. Bachman, Russell K. Schutt, and Peggy S. Plass, is a�…

The Department of Defense (DoD) has assessed service member experiences with sexual
assault and harassment since at least 1996, when Public Law 104-201 first required a�…

Arrests of women for assault increased more than 40 percent over the past decade, while
male arrests for this offense have fallen by about one percent. Some studies report that for�…