Locked in A Violent Embrace: Understanding and Intervening in Domestic Violence

by Zvi C. Eisikovits, Eli Buchbinder

Overview

Closely examines the lives of those directly affected by domestic violence and outlines guidelines for intervention, drawing on data from 12 years of qualitative studies and clinical practice, and focusing on couples who remain together in spite of the violence in their relationships. Guidelines given represent a new approach to domestic violence intervention. Eisikovits is a social worker and criminologist. Buchbinder is a social worker and a doctoral student at the School of Social Work, The University of Haifa. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761905387
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/15/2000
Series:	SAGE Series on Violence against Women
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.24(h) x 0.76(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Constructing the Script
The Violent Event
From Violent Incidents to Violent Rituals
In Search of Paradise Lost
The Aftermath of Intimate Violence
Scripts of Everyday Life
From Emotions in Violence to Violent Emotions
The Metaphoric Understanding of Violence
Accounts of Intimate Violence
Public Exposure and Private Meaning
Battered Women and Battering Men Interaction with Social Agents
Guidelines for Intervention
Postscript
The End Is the Beginning