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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.
Biological Perspectives on Violence against Women
Biological Perspectives on Violence against Women
Aggressive behavior has been shown to be stable across time, situations, and generations within the same family (Huesmann, Eron, Lefkowitz, & Walder, 1984). Huesmann et al. found early aggressive behavior to be predictive of later aggressive acts, including spouse abuse, child abuse, criminal behavior, and other types of physical aggression. Geffner and Rosenbaum (1992) discussed the tentative evidence in support of a cyclical process of child abuse that leads to abuse as an adult, which leads in turn to abuse of the next generation of victims. This association of aggression and violence and its stability across time and generations suggests that there are intra-individual factors that contribute to interpersonal violence.
Research has suggested that ...
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