Wife Battering

Prevalence and associations of partner abuse in women attending general practice: a cross‐sectional survey

“…17 Results from this study support previous qualitative data that self-defence is a common reason women hit their partners. 18 Contrar y to what many doctors believe, 19 the majority of women in this study didn't have multiple abusive relationships. Signif icant associations of partner abuse were found with younger women, those who had been separated or divorced, women who had been ab used as children or who had come from a family where domestic violence occurred.…”

Public Officials and a “Private” Matter: Attitudes and Policies in the County Sheriff Office Regarding Violence Against Women*

“…Community characteristics may also potentially influence sheriff attitudes toward domestic violence and the domestic violence policies. While domestic violence incidents do not relate to specific demographics, research suggests that law enforcement may pay more attention to domestic violence in low‐income or economically distressed communities (Margolin, Sibner, and Gleberman, ). At the same time, research also suggests that law enforcement often fail to protect poor women, who are also more vulnerable to domestic violence situations because they lack economic resources to leave their abusers (Zorza, ).…”

Marital Violence: Issues in Conception, Assessment and Intervention

“…Public policy may rest upon interpretations of the abuse literature (cf. Margolin, Sibner, & Gleberman, 1988;Walker, 1984). Various legal and political representations based on interpretations of this literature have been and will continue to be made, e.g., the 'battered-woman syndrome' has been used successfully as a defence in a trial of a wife charged with the murder of her husband (O'Leary & Arias, 1988, p. 108).…”

“…The search for an appropriate framework and an appropriate level of abstraction from which to discuss spouse abuse, is by no means an easy task (cf. Margolin, et al 1988). There are, to be sure, many clinical reports and an increasing number of isolated studies of marital violence.…”

“…Margolin, 1979;Neidig & Friedman, 1984;Rosenbaum & O'Leary, 1986). Margolin et al (1988), present a thoughtful and thorough consideration of the multilevels that may be involved in treatment. In some quarters therapy designed to keep a battering couple together is viewed as being antithetical to the woman's best interests, and represents further institutional support for male domination (Bograd, 1984).…”