Violence and Maltreatment in Intimate Relationships

Violence and Maltreatment in Intimate Relationshipsprovides current and complete coverageof physical, sexual, and psychological abuse that occurs within intimate relationships. Authors Cindy L. Miller-Perrin and Robin D. Perrin, co-authorsof SAGEs best-sellingFamily Violence Across the Life, Third Edition,have created a streamlined organizational framework in Violence and Maltreatment in Intimate Relationships which presents information to students in an accessible manner.In this new book, Miller-Perrin and Perrin have teamed up with renowned researcherClaire M. Renzetti, who draws on her extensive work on violence against women.The book offers both a sociological and psychological focus, examining traditional areas of interpersonal violence as well as forms of intimate abuse outside the family, andconcludes with a call for appropriate social, legal, policy, and personal responses to address the problem of abuse in intimate relationships.Additional ISBNs: 9781506323817, 1506323812, 9781506323824, 1506323820