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This book uses various theoretical perspectives to summarize what is known about the multiple causes of men's violence against women, and stresses the importance of identifying men's risk factors. The preliminary multivariate model identifies four content areas: macrosocietal; biological; gender role socialization; and relational factors to explain men's violence against women. Within these four content areas the editors develop thirteen preliminary hypotheses about the causes of men's violence against women, which are critiqued by the contributors in the subsequent chapters.
What Causes Men to Be Violent against Women?: The Unanswered and Controversial Question
What Causes Men to Be Violent against Women?: The Unanswered and Controversial Question
“If the leading newspapers were to announce tomorrow a new disease that, over the past year, had afflicted from 3 to 4 million citizens, few would fail to appreciate the seriousness of the illness. Yet, when it comes to the 3 to 4 million women who are victimized by violence each year, the alarms ring softly…. We live in a nation where crimes against women are still perceived as anything but crime—as a family problem, as a private matter, as ‘sexual miscommunication’.” So said Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (Biden, 1993, p. 1059), the chief architect of the ...
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