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In Defense of Abused Men 

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    We have a capsule review.
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Excerpt from the text of the book: "Yet, while repeated studies consistently show that men are victims of domestic violence as often as are women, `both the lay public and many professionals regard a finding of no sex difference in rates of physical aggression among intimates as surprising, if not unreliable,' the stereotype being that men are aggressive `and women are exclusively victims.' "

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This report notes that 31% of men and 44% of women in a study reported that they aggressed against their partner in the year before marriage. Eighteen months after marriage, 27% of the men and 36% of the women reported being violent towards their partner.

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  21. Straus, M., and Gelles, R., "Societal Change and Change in Family Violence from 1975 to 1985 as Revealed by Two National Surveys," Journal of Marriage and the Family 48:465-479, 1986.
  22. Straus, M.A., Gelles, R.J., and Steinmetz, S.K. Behind closed doors: Violence in American families. Doubleday, New York, 1980. Followup work to "Intimate Violence"
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  24. Wilkerson, Isabel "Clemency Granted to 25 Women Convicted for Assault or Murder" New York Times December 21, 1990
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Many selections originally Collected and posted by Michael Rivero rivero@kwcc.com .
Other citations added by a man who did not wish to be identified.
HTML by David R Throop.

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From http://www.vix.com/men/battery/commentary/dgross-hbat.html 

Biden, Joseph "Violence Against Women Act of 1990" (S. 15) 1991.

Boxer, Barbara "A Bill to combat violence and crimes against women on the streets and in homes" (H.R. 5468) 101st Congress, 2nd Session, August 3, 1990

Curtis, L.A. Criminal violence: National patterns and behavior Lexington Books, Lexington MA, 1974

Daly, M. & Wilson, M. "Parent-Offspring Homicides in Canada, 1974-1983" Science v. 242, pp. 519-524, 1988

Farrell, Warren Why Men Are the Way They Are McGraw-Hill, New York, 1986, p. 231

Garcia, Jane "The Cost of Escaping Domestic Violence" Los Angeles Times May 6, 1991

Gelles, R.J. The violent home: A study of physical aggression between husbands and wives Sage, Beverly Hills CA, 1974

Langley, Roger & Levy, Richard C. Wife Beating: The Silent Crisis Pocket Books, New York 1977

Marriage and Divorce Today "First Large-Scale Study Reveals Elder Abuse is Primarily by Wives Against Husbands" December 15, 1986

Mercy, J.A. & Saltzman, L.E. "Fatal violence among spouses in the United States, 1976-85" American Journal of Public Health 79(5): 595-9 May 1989

Nagi, Saad Child Maltreatment in the United States Columbia University Press, New York, p. 47, 1977

Nisonoff, L. & Bitman, I "Spouse Abuse: Incidence and Relationship to Selected Demographic Variables" Victimology 4, 1979, pp. 131-140

O'Leary, K. Daniel; Arias, Ilena; Rosenbaum, Alan & Barling, Julian "Premarital Physical Aggression" State University of New York at Stony Brook & Syracuse University

Rooke, Margaret "Violence in the Home" RadioTimes 16-22 March 1991 p. 8.

Saenger, G. "Male and female relation in the American comic strips" in The funnies: An American idiom M. White & R.H. Abel editors, The Free Press, Glencoe IL, 1963, p. 219-223

Sexuality Today Newsletter "Violence in Adolescent Dating Relationships Common, New Survey Reveals" December 22, 1986 (reporting on a report in Social Work contact Karen Brockopp) pp 2-3.

Statistical Abstract of the United States 1987 table 277

Steinmetz, Suzanne K. The cycle of violence: Assertive, aggressive and abusive family interaction Praeger Press, New York, 1977

Steinmetz, Suzanne K. "The Battered Husband Syndrome" Victimology 2, 1977-1978, p. 499 Steinmetz, Suzanne K. and Lucca, Joseph S. "Husband Battering" in Handbook of Family Violence Van Hasselt, Vincent B. et al. editors, Plenum Press, New York 1988, p. 233-246

Strauss, M.A., Gelles, R.J., and Steinmetz, S.K. Behind closed doors: Violence in American families Doubleday, New York, 1980

Strauss, M.A. & Gelles, R.J. "Societal change and change in family violence from 1975 to 1985 as revealed by two national surveys" Journal of Marriage and the Family 48, po. 465-479, 1986

Wilkerson, Isabel "Clemency Granted to 25 Women Convicted for Assault or Murder" New York Times December 21, 1990

Wilt, G.M. & Bannon, J.D. Violence and the police: Homicides, assaults and disturbances The Police Foundation, Washington DC, 1976

Wolfgang, M. Patterns in Criminal Homicide Wiley, New York, 1958

[References by David Gross.]

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