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SAGE 800.818.7243 or 805.499.9774 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. pt fax: 805.375.5291 30 TEXTBOOKS IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANYONE: Why Battered Women Stay THIRD EDITION Alyce D. LaViolette, Alternatives Counseling Association, California • Ola W. Barnett, Pepperdine University This text provides a comprehensive examination of why women stay in abusive relationships and why they leave, explaining why women should not be blamed for their victimization. Completed revised and updated, this Third Edition offers readers a unique amalgamation of the practical clinical experience of Alyce LaViolette and the extensive research efforts of Ola Barnett on battered women and their batterers. It includes a wealth of new material and case examples, and retained sections have been carefully rewritten to reflect contemporary thinking. This text continues to provide understanding and empathy regarding this complex issue and presents an integrated learning theory explanation of the conditioning that culminates in wife abuse, in the resulting state of the victim, and in the decision to stay with an abuser. NEW TO THIS EDITION • Revised sections include: research- identified newer forms of battering such as stalking and control; new statistics on the frequency of male-to female battering; different forms of aggression; learned helplessness; and more. • New information is provided on: global violence against women; courtship violence; violence against women who are older, disabled, lesbian, who live in rural areas, or belong to ethnic groups; neurological changes brought about by fear and post-traumatic stress disorder; and more. • A new section offers strategies used to cope with battering and about marital dissatisfaction. • A useful scale covers different types of aggression, beginning with common forms of aggression to terrorism. CONTENTS 1. Weaving the Fabric of Abuse: Learned Helplessness and Learned Hopelessness / 2. Institutional Battering: The Power of the Patriarchy / 3. Victimization: Why Does it Happen to Her? / 4. Living With Fear: The Force That Holds, Molds, and Controls / 5. Meltdown: The Impact of Stress and Learned Helplessness / 6. Catalysts for Change / 7. Voices of Hope: Survivors Speak PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4522-7774-5 • ©2014 • 344 PAGES • FAMILY VIOLENCE IN THE UNITED STATES: Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse SECOND EDITION Denise A. Hines, Clark University • Kathleen Malley-Morrison, Boston University • Leila Dutton, University of New Haven Rich in scholarly references and case materials, Family Violence in the United States: Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse, Second Edition is a thought-provoking book that encourages students to question assumptions, evaluate information, formulate hypotheses, and design solutions to problems of family violence in the United States. Using an ecological framework, the authors provide an informative discussion not only of the most well recognized forms of maltreatment in families, but also of less understood and more controversial issues such as the maltreatment of male partners, of parents, and within LGBT relationships. It reviews and evaluates major efforts at intervention and prevention. KEY FEATURES • Current research and updated prevalence rates • Stalking as a form of violence • Discussion questions at the end of every chapter • Added tables summarize prevalence rates and predictors of maltreat- ment. • New chapters address maltreatment in racial/ethnic minority communi- ties and courtship abuse. • Full chapters on Maltreatment of Male Partners and Maltreatment in Gay/Lesbian Relationships • Extensive coverage of "hidden forms" of family violence, including the sexual abuse of female partners, maltreatment in sibling relation- ships, maltreatment of parents by children, and the maltreatment of people with disabilities • Thought-provoking questions, pep- pered in Socratic style throughout the text, prompt readers to critically evaluate their own and others' no- tions of abuse and maltreatment. • Real case studies of family violence illustrate concepts being discussed and engage readers in thinking about and questioning issues in family violence. • Special Issue sections highlight new, and sometimes controversial, aspects of different forms of family violence. CONTENTS PART I. DEFINING AND UNDERSTANDING ABUSE / 1. Issues in the Definition of Family Violence / PART II. CHILD MALTREATMENT / 2. Child Physical Maltreatment / 3. Child Sexual Maltreatment / 4. Child Neglect and Psychological Maltreatment / PART III. INTIMATE PARTNER MALTREATMENT / 5. Maltreatment in College Student Relationships / 6. Maltreatment of Female Partners / 7. Maltreatment of Male Partners / 8. Maltreatment in LGBTQ Relationships / PART IV. OTHER TYPES OF FAMILY MALTREATMENT / 9. Maltreatment of Elders and People with Disabilities / 10. Maltreatment of Siblings and Parents by Children and Adolescents / PART V. CULTURAL ISSUES IN FAMILY VIOLENCE / 11. The Contemporary and Broader Ecological Context / 12. Racial/Ethnic Issues in Family Violence / 13. Religious Issues in Family Violence PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4129-8900-8 • ©2013 • 600 PAGES •

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