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Carefully organized and tightly edited, this insightful book considers potential causes of men′s violence against women, utilizing a variety of theoretical perspectives. It summarizes what is known about the multiple causes of men′s violence against women and the importance of identifying men′s risk factors in order to prevent future violence.

The editors′ approach is unique but systematic. In chapter 2, the editors present a preliminary multivariate model that explains men′s violence against women by identifying four content areas: macrosocietal, biological, gender role socialization, and relation factors. Within these four areas, the editors develop thirteen preliminary hypotheses about the causes of men′s violence against women. In the subsequent chapters the contributing authors critique or react to specific parts of the multivariate model and address one or more of the 13 hypotheses in the presentation of their own ideas about the causes of men′s violence against women. In the concluding chapter, the editors summarize the contributors′ reactions to the original hypotheses by creating a revised multivariate model of risk factors for men′s violence against women. The final model includes biological, socialization, psychological, psychosocial, relational, and macrosocietal factors. Furthermore, the model is explained through 13 theoretical propositions, 40 research hypotheses, and over 60 risk variables related to men′s violence against women. The book closes with a discussion of men′s protective, resiliency, and vulnerability factors as well as future directions for theory development, advocacy, and the prevention of violence against women.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Foreword
• Part 1 Book Context and Critiques of O'neil and Harway's Multivariate Model Explaining Men's Violence Against Women
• What Causes Men to be Violent Against Women? The Unanswered and Controversial Question
• Preliminary Multivariate Model Explaining the Causes of Men's Violence Against Women
• Feminist Perspectives on Male Violence Against Women
• Critiquing O'Neil and Harway's Model
• Male Offenders
• Our Understanding from the Data
• Part 2 Biological, Neuroanatomical, Hormonal and Evolutionary Factors Explaining Men's Violence Against Women
• Biological Perspectives on Violence Against Women
• The Evolutionary Origins of Male Violence Against Women
• Part 3 Men's and Women's Gender-Role Socialization and Gender-Role Conflict1 Factors Explaining Men's Violence Against Women
• Men's Gender-Role Conflict, Defense Mechanisms and Self Protective Defensive Strategies
• Explaining Men's Violence Against Women from a Gender-Role Socialization Perspective
• Women's Gender-Role Socialization, Gender-Role Conflict and Abuse
• A Review of Predisposing Factors
• Part 4 Relational and Interactional Factors Explaining Men's Violence Against Women
• Systems Perspectives on Battering
• The Importance of Context and Pattern
• Inter-Gender Relational Dimensions of Violence Toward Women
• A Co-Constructive-Developmental Perspective
• Part 5 Macrosocietal, Racial and Cultural Explanations of Violence Against Women
• The Interaction between Societal Violence and Domestic Violence
• Racial and Cultural Factors
• Part 6 Theoretical Propositions, Revised Multivariate Model of Men's Risk Factors, New Hypotheses and Preventive Recommendations
• Revised Multivariate Model Explaining Men's Risk Factors for Violence Against Women
• Theoretical Propositions, New Hypothoses and Proactive Recommendations

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

James M. O'Neil, Ph.D. is Professor of Educational Psychology and Family Studies Psychology at the University of Connecticut and a licensed psychologist in private practice in South Windsor, Connecticut. In 1975, he received his doctorate from the Department of Counseling and Personnel Services at the University of Maryland. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association in Divisions 17, 35, 43, 51, 52, 56. He is one of the founding members of the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity (SPSMM), Division 51 of the American Psychological Association. SPSMM named him Researcher of the Year in 1997 for his 20-year research program on men's gender role conflict. His research programs relate to men and masculinity, gender role conflict, psychology of men and women, forgiveness, violence, and victimization. He is the author of the Gender Role Conflict Scale, a widely used measure of men's conflict with their gender roles. His last book (with Michele Harway) was What Causes Men's Violence Against Women? (Sage, 1999). In 1991, he was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Scholarship by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, to lecture in the former Soviet Union. He lectured at Moscow State Pedagogical University from February through April, 1992, on such topics as psychological counseling, psychology of gender roles, and victimization. In 1995, he was awarded Teaching Fellow status by the University of Connecticut for his outstanding excellence and dedication to the university teaching profession. In 2008, he received the Distinguished Professional Service Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity of APA for his significant contributions at the local, state, and national levels in promoting men's well-being. His summary of over 200 empirical studies on men's gender role conflict (O'Neil, 2008) resulted in being awarded The 2009 Counseling Psychologist Outstanding Contribution Award from Division 17 (Counseling Psychology). In the same year he was inducted into Athletic Hall of Fame of Marathon Central School Hall in a ceremony in his hometown of Marathon, New York.