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INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILY VIOLENCE AND ABUSE A Cognitive Ecological Approach INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILY VIOLENCE AND ABUSE A Cognitive Ecological Approach Edited by Kathleen Malley-Morrison LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS Mahwah, New Jersey London This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/.” Copyright © 2004 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microform, retrieval system, or any other means, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers 10 Industrial Avenue Mahwah, New Jersey 07430 Cover design by Sean Sciarrone Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data International Perspectives on Family Violence and Abuse: A Cognitive Ecological Approach, edited by Kathleen Malley-Morrison. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 0-8058-4245-4 (cloth: alk. paper)—ISBN 0-8058-4246-2 (pbk.: alk. paper) Copyright information for this volume can be obtained by contacting the Library of Congress. ISBN 1-4106-1080-2 Master e-book ISBN To nonviolence in human relationships. We are all one family. Contents xi Preface PART I: CONTEXT 1 Introduction 3 Kathleen Malley-Morrison PART II: WESTERN EUROPE 2 Iceland 15 Anna María Hauksdóttir & Steinunn Gestsdóttir 3 England 31 Elizabeth Donovan 4 Portugal 49 Melanie T.Santos & Andrea E.Mercurio 5 Italy 67 Scott Borrelli & Tommaso Palumbo 6 Germany 87 Elisabeth Leembruggen-Kallberg, Silke Rupprecht, & Diane Cadmus PART III: CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN EUROPE 7 Russia 109 Anna Fastenko & Irini Timofeeva 8 Greece 127 Georgia Stathopoulou 9 Turkey 147 Alev Yaiçinkaya PART IV: THE MIDDLE EAST 10 Saudi Arabia 163 Majed A.Ashy 11 Israel 183 Odelya Pagovich Contents viii 12 Lebanon 201 Laura Sheridan & Ghassan Ghorayeb PART V: AFRICA 13 Somalia 219 Natoschia Scruggs 14 South Africa 239 Ronel Fourie PART VI: ASIA AND THE PACIFIC 15 India 257 Sonia Chawla 16 Japan 275 Mizuho Aral 17 Korea 291 Mikyung Jang & Mi-Sung Kim 18 Taiwan 309 Huei-Ping Liu 19 Republika ng pilipinas, the Philippines 327 Nyryan E-V.Nolido 20 Australia 349 Doe West PART VII: LATIN AMERICA 21 Nicaragua 369 Kevin Powell 22 Brazil 385 Wilson Bezerra-Flanders 23 Colombia 403 Sharon Abramzon PART VIII: NORTH AMERICA 24 Canada 417 Indrani J.Dookie 25 United States 437 Kimberly A.Rapoza ix International Perspectives on Family Violence and Abuse PART IX: CONCLUSION 26 Human Rights 459 Marcus D.Patterson Author Index 487 Subject Index 499

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In this book, in which definitions and examples of abuse from men and women from every continent and a very diverse set of backgrounds are considered. The volume provides information on the extent to which family violence is a recognized problem in each country, research findings available on differ
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