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| Survey of the Family Abuse Landscape | |
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| Family Abuse as a Matter of Public Concern | |
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| Family Abuse as a Focus of Professional Attention | |
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| Defining Abuses | |
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| Using Social Science Methods to Study Abuse in the Family | |
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| Systems or Ecological Approaches | |
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| Relationships Between Forms of Abuse | |
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| Child Physical Abuse | |
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| Social and Historical Context | |
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| Defining the Problem | |
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| Overview of Major Types of Injuries | |
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| Psychological Impacts | |
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| Intergenerational Transmission: The Violence-Begets-Violence Theory | |
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| A Systems or Ecological Approach to Understanding Risk and Resiliency Factors | |
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| Resiliency or Protective Factors | |
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| A Special Category of Child Physical Abuse: Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy | |
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| Child Psychological Maltreatment and Child Neglect | |
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| Child Psychological Maltreatment | |
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| What is Psychological Maltreatment? What Do We Need to Know About Psychological Maltreatment? Child Neglect | |
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| Child Sexual Abuse | |
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| The Problem | |
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| The Victims | |
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| Models of Victimology and Emerging Trends | |
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| Child Maltreatment: Investigation, the Courts, and Intervention | |
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| Reporting Suspected Child Maltreatment | |
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| Child Protective Services Investigation and Interviewing Procedures | |
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| Risk Assessment | |
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| Initial Intervention by CPS | |
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| Juvenile Civil Court Action - Dependency Proceedings | |
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| Social Service Intervention | |
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| Child Abuse and Criminal Proceedings | |
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| False Memory/Repressed Memory Controversy | |
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| Problems, Issues, and Trends in Intervention | |
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| Sexual Offenders | |
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| Types of Offenders | |
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| Psychiatric Diagnosis and Sexual Offenders | |
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| Profile Models | |
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| The Four-Factor Offender Model | |
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| The Addiction Model | |
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| A Special Class of Offenders: Children and Adolescents | |
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| Concluding Comments About Sexual Offenders | |
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| Intervention and Treatment | |
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| Domestic Violence | |
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| A Brief Look at the Historical Context | |
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| What Is Domestic Violence? A Working Definition | |
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| How Common Is Domestic Violence? Incidence and Prevalence | |
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| The Controversy About the Rate of Male and Female Domestic Violence | |
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| What Is the Impact of Battering on Its Victims? The Cycle of Violence | |
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| Why Do Women Stay? Explanations and Risk Factors | |
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| Classifying Perpetrators | |
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| Intervention | |
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| Elder Maltreatment | |
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| Historical Context | |
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| What is Elder Maltreatment? How Big Is the Problem? What Are the Indicators of Maltreatment? What is The Impact of Elder Maltreatment? Explanations and Risk Factors | |
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| Efforts to Deal with Elder Maltreatment | |
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| References | |
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| Index (Each chapter concludes with a Chapter Summary) | |