Violence against women and children is a serious public health concern, with costs at multiple levels of society. Although violence is a threat to everyone, wom

Gender, Violence and Attitudes explores the history of gender-based violence in early modern Europe, particularly intimate-partner violence and sexual violence.

Levinson's study of family violence breaks new ground by taking a global perspective of this social ill. He uses ethnographic work on 90 societies to analyse th

Concrete suggestions for assessing and treating battered women, batterers, children who have viewed the violence, and couples engaged in violent interactions. I