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Article: Comparisons of moral reasoning levels between battered and non-battered women.(Special section: domestic violence and social work education)
- Article from:
- Journal of Social Work Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN is a major social problem that requires well-informed, empirically grounded policy and practice responses. The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice (1998) indicates that approximately 1 million violent crimes are committed annually against persons by their current or former spouses or partners and women are victims in 8 of 10 of the cases. Slightly more than half of these women report having children under the age of 12 at home (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1998).
Several contemporary researchers identify stereotypes and challenge early research on battered women (Gelles, 1997; Herman, 1997; Pagelow, 1997; Ross & ...