Exerting power or striking back: A gendered comparison of motivations for domestic violence perpetration

Violence and Victims

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 173-185

  Kernsmith, Poco ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Family violence; Human sex differences; Motivation; Perpetrators

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BATTERING; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; RACE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIALIZATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 22944470245     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.2005.20.2.173     Document Type: Review

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