"when you're involved, it's just different": Making sense of domestic violence

Violence Against Women

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 240-261

  Berns, Nancy ^a   Schweingruber, David ^b  

^a DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic violence; Social problems

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPOUSE ABUSE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847248920     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801206297338     Document Type: Article

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