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Marital Violence - The Community Response (Hardcover)
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Marital Violence - The Community Response (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Marriage
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In the early 1980s the subject of violence in marriage was in
danger of being overlooked once again, as new social problems
dominated the political scene, and the Government pursued policies
of retrenchment that were likely to deprive refuges of the
necessary central government support. Yet improvements in the
services for victims of marital violence were still urgently
needed, as this study shows. Originally published in 1983, this
book is based on research into the way practitioners in the
medical, legal, and social services viewed marriage and violence at
the time. It examines marital violence from a number of
perspectives. Taking samples from groups of doctors, solicitors,
social workers, health visitors, and women's aid refuges, the
authors have investigated the ways in which different agencies and
practitioners respond to the problem of marital violence. They use
a combination of statistical evidence and interviews with
practitioners and the victims themselves to build up a picture of
the extent of the problem - how it is defined, how much comes to
the attention of the public services - and of the ways in which the
attitudes and professional status of the practitioners form a
response that is in varying degrees adequate or otherwise to deal
with the problems that exist. The authors produce evidence to show
that marital violence is still widespread, though largely hidden
because of the way privacy determines family relationships. They
show how present provisions are inadequate to deal with the
problem, and make recommendations about ways of improving the
services available to help battered women.
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