Family Abuse and Violence

Family Abuse and Violence presents a new perspective for studying inter- and intragenerational forms of family abuse and violence. The framework integrates existing theories and guides an interpretation of empirical data to study socially deviant or criminal problems that occur within families. It is a text for: undergraduate students in a 2nd 3rd or 4th year course in social problems family abuse and violence family and gender or community problems; or for graduate students in MS or PhD programs in sociology psychology child and family studies.