It Could Happen to Anyone: Why Battered Women Stay

by Alyce D. LaViolette and Ola W. Barnett

Book Overview

The widely read and highly praised bestseller It Could Happen to Anyone offers a unique amalgamation of the practical clinical experience of Alyce LaViolette and the extensive research of Ola Barnett on battered women and their batterers. Fully updated and revised, this Third Edition includes a wealth of new material and case examples, while retained sections have been carefully rewritten to reflect contemporary thinking. This important text...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1452277745
• ISBN13: 9781452277745
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Sage Publications (CA)
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Terrific Book Answers the Question: Why Does She Stay?

This book clearly answers the question everyone always wants to know: why does she stay? It gives numerous examples of the many reasons women stay, and the factors in their lives that effect that choice. It is the best of any that I've read (20-30) which effectively illuminates their reasons, without demeaning or glorifying them. It is must reading for anyone involved in domestic violence, either as a survivor, case worker, or friend or family of a survivor.