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SPRING 1994 - VOLUME XXV, NUMBER 1
FAMILY VIOLENCE

94.14.01 - English - Murray A. STRAUS, Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824 (U.S.A.)

State-to-State Differences in Social Inequality and Social Bonds in Relation to Assaults on Wives in the United States

94.14.02 - English - Rebecca MORLEY, School of Social Studies, University of Nottingham (U.K.)

Wife Beating and Modernization: The Case of Papua New Guinea

94.14.03 - English - Ko-Lin CHIN, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, University Heights, Hill Hall, Newark, NJ 07102 (U.S.A.)

Out-of Town Brides: International Marriage and Wife Abuse Among Chinese Immigrants

94.14.04 - English - B. DEVI PRASAD, Department of Social Work, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 530 003, A.P. (India)

Dowry-Related Violence: A Content Analysis of News in Selected Newspapers

Dowry, though legally proscribed, is still a culturally sanctioned and socially structured practice in India. In dowry-related violence not only the husband but his family members take part in the victimization of the woman. This study is based on a content analysis of newspapers to discover the perceptions of the mass media regarding dowry-related crimes against women. The paper explores the content of the news items, with reference to the characteristics of the victims and their spouses, the duration of marriage at the time of the violence, the nature of dowry demands, violence towards the victims, reporting of the incident, and the outcomes. The paper concludes that in more than 80% of the cases, the outcome is the wife's death, preceded by physical and mental torture. In almost all the cases, the victimized woman is young, not highly educated, and dependent. The incidents are mostly confined to the early years of marriage and the victim's husband tends to be the main tormentor. At the time of death, in almost all the cases, the woman was residing at her in-laws' residence. (INDIA, WOMEN'S STATUS, MARRIED WOMEN, VIOLENCE, DOWRY)

94.14.05 - English - Oliver J. WILLIAMS, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Ford Hall, 224 Church Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55444 (U.S.A.)

Group Work with African American Men Who Batter: Toward More Ethnically Sensitive Practice

94.14.06 - English - Robert L. HAMPTON, Department of Sociology, Connecticut College, New London, Conecticut 06320 (U.S.A.), and Richard J. GELLES, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881 (U.S.A.)

Violence Toward Black Women in a Nationally Representative Sample of Black Families

94.14.07 - English - Catherine M. MALKIN, Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 (U.S.A.), and Michael E. LAMB, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Section on Social and Emotional Development, 9190 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814 (U.S.A.)

Child Maltreatment: A Test of Sociobiological Theory

94.14.08 - English - Rebecca L. HEGAR and Geoffrey L. GREIF, School of Social Work, University of Maryland, 525 W. Redwood Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 (U.S.A.)

Parental Abduction of Children from Interracial and Cross-Cultural Marriages

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