Partner Violence A New Paradigm for Understanding Conflict Escalation /

• Main Author: Winstok, Zeev. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality,
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Medicine.; Criminology.; Social work.; Psychology, clinical.; Consciousness.; Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Clinical Psychology.; Sociology, general.; Social Work.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4568-5

As domestic violence continues to be a focus of social and psychological concern, two basic contradictory viewpoints endure: one rooted in male power dynamics, the other maintaining that both genders use and are victimized by violence. Although both sides have their merits, neither has adequately an...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Gender Differences in Aggressive Tendencies
• Dominance and Control
• Partner Violence as a Rational Choice
• Partner Violence as Planned Behavior
• The Process Leading to Partner Violence
• Partner Conflict Dynamics Throughout Relationship Periods.-�Partner Conflict Dynamics.-�Observation Units of Partner Violence
• Gender Differences in Escalatory Intentions
• Observations about the Third Paradigm.