Family Violence Across the Lifespan

<p><img width=171 height=48 border=0 alt=CourseSmart src=http://www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/images/smart/coursesmart.jpg /></p><p></p><p style=LINE-HEIGHT: normal align=center><b><i>The most comprehensive research-based text on family violence - now more accessible and visually inviting than ever before </i></b></p><p style=LINE-HEIGHT: normal><b><i></i></b></p><p style=LINE-HEIGHT: normal>Streamlined and updated throughout with state-of-the-art information this <b>Third Edition </b>of the authors' bestselling book gives readers an accessible introduction to the methodology etiology prevalence treatment and prevention of family violence. Research from experts in the fields of psychology sociology criminology and social welfare informs the book's broad coverage of current viewpoints and debates within the field. Organized chronologically chapters cover child physical sexual and emotional abuse; abused and abusive adolescents; courtship violence and date rape; spouse abuse battered women and batterers; and elder abuse.</p>