William A. Stacey

The violent couple

Acknowledgments Introduction The Politics of Family Violence Family Violence: A Social Learning Perspective The Forms of Mutual Abuse The Pathways of Mutual Abuse Healing Strategies for Mutual Abuse A Mandate for the Antiviolence Industry Appendix 1: FVDN Female Follow-up Questionnaire Appendix 2: FVDN Mens Follow-up Questionnaire Appendix 3: Orthogonal Rotation of Twenty-five Forms of Violence Selected Bibliography Index

Male violence against women: Assessment of the generational transfer hypothesis

Although domestic violence is a much‐studied phenomenon, there is a notable lack of empirical research on the male perpetrators of spouse abuse. This paper uses data from a sample of 542 residents of battered womens shelters to examine the “generational transfer hypothesis” as it applies to these male batterers. This hypothesis asserts that a childs exposure to domestic violence in his family of orientation increases his propensity to abuse his spouse as an adult. The specific question addressed here is derived from this hypothesis: the degree of violent socialization of male spouse batterers is directly related to the severity of their violent behavior. Four indexes are used in our analysis: a Violent Socialization Index, a Forms of Violence Index, a Types of Injuries Index, and an overall Violence Severity Index. The results indicate that the socialization experiences of wife batterers, whether involving neglect, outright abuse, or merely witnessing parental or sibling abuse, appear to be directly rel...

Bad Pastors: Clergy Misconduct in Modern America

Child-molesting priests, embezzled church treasures, philandering ministers and rabbis, even church-endorsed pyramid schemes that defraud gullible parishioners of millions of dollars: for the past decade, clergy misconduct has seemed continually to be in the news. Is there something about religious organizations that fosters such misbehavior? Bad Pastors presents a range of new perspectives and solidly grounded data on pastoral abuse, investigating sexual misconduct, financial improprieties, and political and personal abuse of authority. Rather than focusing on individuals who misbehave, the volume investigates whether the foundation for clergy malfeasance is inherent in religious organizations themselves, stemming from hierarchies of power in which trusted leaders have the ability to define reality, control behavior, and even offer or withhold the promise of immortality. Arguing that such phenomena arise out of organizational structures, the contributors do not focus on one particular religion, but rather treat these incidents from an interfaith perspective. Bad Pastors moves beyond individual case studies to consider a broad range of issues surrounding clergy misconduct, from violence against women to the role of charisma and abuse of power in new religious movements. Highlighting similarities between other forms of abuse, such as domestic violence, the volume helps us to conceptualize and understand clergy misconduct in new ways.

Woman Battering as Marital Act: The Construction of a Violent Marriage.@@@The Violent Couple.

How do women and men make sense of acts of marital woman battering? How do they define, interpret, and explain them? Do they try to justify them? What does violence do to their lives and marriages? ...

Born Again Politics and the Moral Majority: What Social Surveys Really Show.

A studt that examines the extent of support for the Moral Majority and this movements potential for translating Moral Majority sentiments into significant political activity. The text includes two surveys from the Dallas-Fort Worth area, a centre of religious and political conservatism that is often considered a stronghold of the Moral Majority.