Definitions of and beliefs about wife abuse among undergraduate students of social work

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 170-190

  Haj Yahia, Muhammad M ^a   Schiff, Miriam ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Beliefs about wife abuse; Definitions of wife abuse; Domestic violence; Social work education; Violence against women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; BATTERED WOMAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISRAEL; MALE; MARRIAGE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL WORK; STEREOTYPY; STUDENT ATTITUDE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; BATTERED WOMEN; CULTURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL WORK; SPOUSE ABUSE; SPOUSES; STUDENTS;

EID: 34047258322     PISSN: 0306624X     EISSN: 15526933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X06291457     Document Type: Article

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