Overview
- Provides a broad, comprehensive theoretical infrastructure for understanding, addressing, and preventing partner violence
- Synthesizes and analyzes the leading research and identifies its limitations
- Presents a progressive, interactive and dynamic approach as a basis for advanced theory and research in partner violence
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality (SSHE)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Keywords
- Conflict escalation
- Domestic violence
- Dominance and control
- Dynamics of partner conflicts
- Family violence
- Gender differences in perpetration and victimization
- Gender paradigm anomaly
- Gender symmetry
- Hostile attribution
- Intended violence
- Interpersonal conflict
- Partner aggression
- Partner violence
- Partner violence observation units
- Physical violence
- Planned behavior
- Psychological violence
- Relationship duration and partner violence
- Relationship stages and partner violence
- Social information processing
- Violence against women
- Violence as a rational choice
About this book
As domestic violence continues to be a focus of social and psychological concern, two basic contradictory viewpoints endure: one rooted in male power dynamics, the other maintaining that both genders use and are victimized by violence. Although both sides have their merits, neither has adequately answered the crucial question: What causes conflict to escalate into violence?
Partner Violence: A New Paradigm for Understanding Conflict Escalation adds a third, escalation-focused paradigm to the debate, addressing the limitations of the two dominant perspectives in a comprehensive scholarly approach. This concise yet comprehensive volume examines key gender- and non-gender-related violence issues and sets out a compelling behavioral argument that using violence to control others is a rational choice. Its theoretical and empirical foundations support an in-depth study of escalating aggression in violent relationships, both throughout periods of chronic conflict and in single violent episodes. This analysis promotes a broader and deeper understanding of partner violence, suitable to developing more finely targeted, effective, and lasting interventions.
Among the key topics featured are: Gender differences in aggressive tendencies. Dominance, control, and violence. Partner violence as planned behavior. The process leading to partner violence. Partner conflict dynamics throughout relationship periods and within conflicts. Gender differences in escalatory intentions.
Partner Violence is an important volume for researchers, graduate students, and clinicians/professionals across various disciplines, including personality and social psychology, criminology, public health, clinical psychology, sociology, and social work.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This book examines partner violence, especially in terms of escalatory partner conflict, a new paradigm that covers both gender-related and non gender-related violence issues. … The book successfully presents a new paradigm to help understand domestic violence, adding to the traditional paradigms citing male power dynamics and that both genders can use violence and be victims. This will be an invaluable addition to the library of those who address domestic violence, for clinicians, researchers, and those involved in public policy.” (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2013)Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Zeev Winstok, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences and a Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Society, at the University of Haifa, Israel. His research focuses on a wide range of family violence, including partner violence, children’s exposure to interparental violence and parents’ use of violence against their children. During the past decade, Professor Winstok won prestigious research grants, including a grant for a longitudinal study of the escalation of conflicts to violence among partners from the Israel Scientific Foundation, published dozens of articles in refereed journals in his field, such as Interpersonal Violence, Violence Against Women, and Aggressive Behavior and presented his work at numerous international conferences in his field.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Partner Violence
Book Subtitle: A New Paradigm for Understanding Conflict Escalation
Authors: Zeev Winstok
Series Title: The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4568-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-4567-8Published: 18 September 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9277-2Published: 15 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-4568-5Published: 18 September 2012
Series ISSN: 1572-5642
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 182
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Medicine/Public Health, general, Clinical Psychology, Sociology, general, Social Work