Claire Renzetti & L. Kevin Hamberger 
Domestic Partner Abuse [EPUB ebook] 

This volume makes a signal contribution to understanding and treating couples’ abuse. The editors and contributors expand the models of abusive relationships to include the special concerns of gay and lesbian couples, mutually violent partners, abusive women, and others. Based on a special issue of the respected journal
Violence and Victims, the book shatters myths surrounding domestic violence and sheds new light on a complex social problem. This volume will be a resource for counselors, therapists, and social workers concerned with domestic violence, as well as for students and educators in the field.

Table of Content

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Contributors

Introduction: Expanding Paradigms for Understanding and Intervening into Partner Violence,
Claire M. Renzetti and L. Kevin Hamberger

Gay and Bisexual Male Domestic Violence Victimization: Challenges to Feminist Theory and Responses to Violence, Patrick Letellier

Are Bi-Directionally Violent Couples Mutually Victimized? A Gender-Sensitive Comparison, Dina Vivian and Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling

Counseling Heterosexual Women Arrested for Domestic Violence: Implications for Theory and Practice, L. Kevin Hamberger and Theresa Potente

Lesbian Battering: The Relationship Between Personality and the Perpetration of Violence, Vallerie E. Coleman

Head-Injured Males: A Population at Risk for Relationship Aggression? William J. Warnken, Alan Rosenbaum, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Steven K. Hoge, and Steven A. Adelman

Patriarchy and Wife Assault: The Ecological Fallacy, Donald G. Dutton

Psychopharmacological Treatment of Aggressive Behavior: Implications for Domestically Violent Men, Roland D. Maiuro and David H. Avery

Commentaries

Expanding the Boundaries: Toward a More Inclusive and Integrated Study of Intimate Violence, Susan L. Miller

On Dancing With a Bear: Reflections on Some of the Current Debates Among Domestic Violence Theorists, Claire M. Renzetti

Index
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About the author

L. Kevin Hamberger, Ph D, is a Professor of Family and Community Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin.