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HDFS 526 intimate partner violence
2 hours (seminar)
Fall Semesters (even-numbered years)
Course Objectives
This class focuses on the extent, nature, causes, and consequences of intimate partner violence in the United States. We will focus on the complexities of intimate partner violence, including individual, societal, and historical factors that contribute to violence, the implications of making distinctions in types of violence and perpetrators, and the relationship between institutional responses and individual decision-making. We will also examine theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues related to violence research.
Topics
- History of the domestic violence movement
- Prevalence and nature of intimate partner violence: definitional and measurement issues
- Social locations of intimate partner violence
- Theories of causation: societal, interpersonal and individual
- Consequences of intimate partner violence
- Coping with intimate partner violence
- Interventions
- Issue of safety, ethics and values