Malley-Morrison, Kathleen and Denise Hines. FAMILY VIOLENCE IN A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE: DEFINING, UNDERSTANDING, AND COMBATING ABUSE
| Autor: | T. K. Logan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Comparative Family Studies. 38:185-187 |
| ISSN: | 1929-9850 0047-2328 |
| DOI: | 10.3138/jcfs.38.1.185 |
| Popis: | Malley-Morrison, Kathleen and Denise Hines. FAMILY VIOLENCE IN A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE: DEFINING, UNDERSTANDING, AND COMBATING ABUSE. Thousand Oaks, CA: S AGE, 2004.The consideration of context, especially cultural context, in family abuse is critically important as we all know. However, that is often easier said than done. This book considers factors at the macrosystem like race and poverty, the exosystem like neighborhoods, the microsystem like the family, and individual levels to examine cultural factors. This book examines factors and research around child abuse, spouse abuse, and elder abuse in the U.S. for Native American Indian cultures, African American cultures, Hispanic/Latino cultures, and Asian American cultures. The book concludes with chapters on prevention and interventions for child and adult maltreatment.More specifically, chapter 2 provides an introduction to theories and methods of researching family abuse. This chapter discusses various theories about family violence and introduces the reader to the context of the integrated conceptual framework based on ecological theory used to frame each chapter. Research methods are also reviewed including the advantages and disadvantages of various empirical data collection methods commonly used to examine family violence.Chapter 3 provides an overview of family violence in the U.S. as a whole and problems with current prevalence and incidence estimates of each type of family violence considered within the next few chapters including child and adult maltreatment.For each of the four cultures outlined above, there is a chapter of introduction that provides discussions of the historical/cultural contexts for family interactions and perceptions of abuse from members of the specific cultures of discussion. The next chapter(s) in each section focuses on incidence, predictors, correlates and consequences of family violence within that specific cultural group as well as consequences of family violence using an ecological framework to organize the discussion. Knowledge about the four different cultures is primarily drawn from the current research studies available. Strengths and weaknesses of the available research in each of the sections are noted throughout the chapters.In addition to using the current research literature for discussion, the authors draw on responses to an open-ended survey regarding cross-cultural definitions of abuse from a wide variety of participants. For example, participants were asked to define "abuse" in the context of family relationships and to give examples. … |
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