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Conflict, Power, and Violence in Families
Journal of Marriage and Family (2010)
  • Kristin L. Anderson, Western Washington University
Abstract
Research on conflict, power, and violence in families in the 2000s developed a promising focus on the interconnections between types of violence and between the experience of violence and locations in larger structures of power and inequality. I examine research on poly-victimization, typologies of violence, dyadic research, and links between violence and inequalities of gender, race, class, and sexual orientation. Additionally, this review evaluates research on the connections between violence in families and other arenas of family study, including teen pregnancy, marriage formation, cohabitation, and divorce. The review concludes with a discussion of studies showing declines in rates of abuse within families in the 2000s.
Keywords
  • Child abuse,
  • Domestic violence,
  • Intimate partner/marital violence,
  • Sexual abuse,
  • victimization
Publication Date
June, 2010
Publisher Statement
Copyright © National Council on Family Relations, 2010 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00727.x
Citation Information
Kristin L. Anderson. "Conflict, Power, and Violence in Families" Journal of Marriage and Family Vol. 72 Iss. 3 (2010)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kristin_anderson/4/