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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Researching Family Violence -- 1. The National Family Violence Surveys -- The Samples -- The Conflict Tactics Scales -- The Social Causes of Family Violence -- A More Comprehensive Analysis of Violence -- Trend and Panel Studies -- Differences and Similarities Between the Two -- Critics of the national surveys -- The Issues -- 2. Methodological Issues in the Study of Family Violence -- Major Questions in the Study of Family Violence -- Issues of Definition -- Random Sample Surveys: Questionnaires, In-Person Interviews, and Telephone Interviews -- Measurement Issues -- Research Designs: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Designs -- Toward Improved Research on Family Violence -- 3. Measuring Intrafamily Conflict and Violence: The Conflict Tactics (CT) -- Some Conceptual Distinctions -- The Conflict Tactics Scales -- Scoring -- Analysis of Violence Scores -- Factor Structure of the CTS -- Reliability -- Validity -- Norms -- Summary and Conclusions -- Appendix -- 4. The Conflict Tactics Scales and Its Critics: An Evaluation and New Data on Validity and Reliability -- Objectives of the Chapter -- Descriptions of the CTS -- Criticisms of the CTS Violence Measures -- Alternative Measures -- Reliability and Validity -- Summary and Conclusions -- 5. Injury and Frequency of Assault and the "Representative Sample Fallacy" in Measuring Wife Beating and Child Abuse -- Violence, Abuse, and Assault -- Acts and Injury as Criteria for Abuse -- Frequency of Assault -- The Representative Sample Fallacy -- Appropriate Generalization from Clinical and Representative Samples -- Part II. Incidence and Tr ends -- 6. How Violent Are American Families? Estimates from the National Family Violence Resurvey and Other Studies Murray -- Violence between Spouses

In this article, we review the ethical and legal dilemmas regarding the admission of convicted felons and study the practices used by American schools of social work. An important finding is that schools that are proactively engaged in asking for and processing felony conviction information are also more ethically engaged.

Addresses the rights of children in areas of juvenile justice, child welfare, & mental health, since these areas constitute a large proportion of the juvenile court's business. In mental health cases, children have few, if any, rights. Yet, they are often subjected to abuse & constraints that would constitute major civil rights violations if they were adults. In child welfare, children have some basic rights, but they are often dependent on the virtually unbridled discretion of child welfare & other administrative officials. More often than not, the juvenile court plays a perfunctory role in the process & merely rubber-stamps recommendations made by child welfare personnel. Discussion focuses on implications of these issues & how they should be considered in the future. 34 References. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Part I. The Issues -- 1. Violence in the Home -- Part II. The Violent Family -- 2. The Marriage License as a Hitting License -- 3. Spare the Rod? -- 4. Kids Will Be Kids: Violence Between Brothers and Sisters -- Part III. Social Patterns in Family Violence -- 5. The Social Heredity of Family Violence -- 6. Who Are the Violent Americans? -- Part IV. Some Immediate Causes -- 7. Marital Conflict and Marital Violence -- 8. Violent Families: Children, Stress, and Power -- Part V. The Future -- 9. The Social Causes of Family Violence: Putting the Pieces Together -- 10. Toward Reducing Family Violence: Band-Aids, Ambulances, and Solutions -- NOTES -- APPENDIX A. Sample and Interviewing -- APPENDIX B. Measuring Violence with the "Conflict Tactics Scales" -- APPENDIX C. Indexes Used to Measure Conflict, Power, and Stress -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

Child Abuse and Neglect is the third volume sponsored by the Social Science Research Council. The goals of these volumes include the development of a biosocial perspective and its application to the interface between biological and social phenomena in order to advance the understanding of human behavior. Child Abuse and Neglect applies the biosocial perspective to child maltreatment and maladaptation in parent-child relations. The biosocial perspective is particularly appropriate for investigating parent behavior since the family is the universal social institution in which children are born and reared, in which cultural traditions and values are transmitted, and in which individuals fulfill their biological potential for reproduction, growth, and development. The volume examines biological substrates and social and environmental contexts as determinants of parent behavior. By identifying areas in which contemporary human parent behaviors conform with and depart from evolutionary and historical patterns and assessing the overall costs and benefits, it permits their objective assessment in terms of modern circumstances. In analyzing evolutionary and historical variations in parent behavior and assessing their costs and benefits, the book makes possible an objective assessment of contemporary variations. Its analysis of the occurrence of child abuse in past history and in other cultures and species advances our ability to predict the probability of child abuse and neglect in various social and ecological contexts.