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Violence Against Women examines a wide range of relationships that may be affected by intimate partner violence and takes a culturally sensitive, international approach to issues underpinning family violence, dating violence, and the injuries children suffer when their caregivers perpetrate violence. This text offers insight into a variety of subjects affecting women domestically and internationally.
These subjects include:
-Risk assessment for intimate partner violence
-Safety planning for victims of intimate partner violence
-Criminal prosecution of and protective orders against intimate partner violence
-Homicide and suicide related to intimate partner violence
-Intimate partner violence in China and among Chinese Americans
-Intimate partner violence in LGBTQI relationships
-Occurrence of and intervention in cases of intimate partner violence in the military
