Intimate Partner Violence

Angela Hattery holds the Zachary T. Smith Reynolds Associate Professorship in Sociology and Women & Gender Studies at Wake Forest University.

• Chapter 1 Chapter One: Setting the StageChapter 2 Chapter Two: Individual Factors that Contribute to Intimate Partner ViolenceChapter 3 Chapter Three: Structural Supports of Intimate Partner ViolenceChapter 4 Chapter Four: Cultural Supports for Intimate Partner ViolenceChapter 5 Chapter Five: Race and Intimate Partner ViolenceChapter 6 Chapter Six: We Were Made For Each Other: Definitions of Romantic Love and Ties to Interpersonal ViolenceChapter 7 Chapter Seven: Where Do We Go From Here?

This book's primary strength is the placement of incidents of interpersonal violence in their social context and in her attention to the offender and his responses to environmental constraints and triggers, including his relationship with the victim. Themanuscript is well written and makes extensive use of materials from interview conducted during the author's research. Recommended....