Family Violence in Cross-Cultural Perspective

by David Levinson

Book Overview

Levinsons study of family violence breaks new ground by taking a global perspective of this social ill. He uses ethnographic work on 90 societies to analyse the incidence, causes and correlates of family violence. Through the use of both quantitative analysis and ethnographic description, he tests the efficacy of various current theories against world-wide family violence data. Among the authors more important conclusions are that womens economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803930755
• ISBN13: 9780803930759
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 8.0"