Re: Gender and violence

[Roy W Wilson <rwwst6+@xxxxxxxx>]

Jody,
        You might find Chapter 6 of BEATING THE DEVIL OUT OF THEM:
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN AMERICAN FAMILIES (1194), by Murray Straus for a
(possibly controversial) model linking corporal punishment to physical
abuse of children.

Roy Wilson, Teaching Fellow
Social Foundations of Education
http://www.pitt.edu/~admps/fnd-d.html (Course syllabus)
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Administrative and Policy Studies
rwwst6@pitt.edu (Email address)

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Joan (Jody) Crowley wrote:

> I'd appreciate it if people on this list have some suggestions about studies 
> looking at why people use violence.  I've done a search of the child abuse data 
> base looking for etiology of physical abuse and found very little (using a 
> broad range of terms, I got 557 hits, of which 10 were vaguely 
> usable).  I'm particularly interested in gender differences, but I can use 
> almost anything at this stage.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Jody Crowley
> 
> Joan (Jody) Crowley
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Criminal Justice
> New Mexico State University
> Box 30001, Dept 3487
> Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001
> 505-646-5376
>