Bibliography as of Spring term, 2001
(Annotation by AFH in brackets)

BOOKS OF GENERAL INTEREST

Bart, P. & Moran, E. (Eds.) (1993). Violence against women: The bloody footprints. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. [Introduction to part III. The politics of institutional responses to violence against women. Pp. 147-154 has strong feminist analysis, provocative and clear. Chapter 12 has good introduction to changes in police practices, courts, and restraining orders. Feminist analysis versus legal analysis, but still sees legal as first resort, i.e. some contradictions. Chapter 18 looks at family violence research (eg Gelles, Straus) and feminist approaches, implications for future research.]

Davies, J., Lyon, E., & Monti-Catania, D. (1998). Safety planning with battered women: Complex lives/difficult choices. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage. An advocacy perspective which is not simplistic, very applied, very useful.

Dutton, D. (1998). The abusive personality: Violence and control in intimate relationships. N.Y.: Guilford. [This is a thoroughly psychological (vs. e.g. Harway & O'Neil) approach to understanding intimate violence. Dutton has done a lot of research and clinical work with abusive men. This book presents his perspective, based in attachment theory and developmental psychopathology. It has some common elements with Jim Gilligan's ideas about shame. It is definitely worth reading, especially for anyone working with abusers.]

Edleson, J. & Eisikovits, Z. (Eds.) (1996). Future interventions with battered women and their families. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [Edited book. Good chapters on community responses and some on interventions with batterers, victims of violence, children].

Feder, L. (Ed.) (1999). Women and domestic violence: An interdisciplinary approach. N.Y.:Haworth. Recommend chapters 1 and selected others (history, civil orders, police response, batterer intervention effectiveness) according to interest. Chapter on civil orders a good intro to criminal justice system responses; chapter on batterer intervention a good research chapter and summary of research to date.

Geffner, R., Sorenson, S., Lundberg-Love, P. (1997). Violence and Sexual Abuse at Home. Binghamton, NY: Haworth. [Initial volume of Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma. This is an overview book with sections on spouse abuse, child abuse, and sexual abuse. Some useful chapters, e.g. on therapist ignorance re handling situations of family violence; biological components; issues concerning children in families where there is violence against a parent. No mention of CPS in any chapter.]

Gelles, R. (1997). Intimate violence in families, 3^rd edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Gelles, R. & Loseke, D. (1993). Current controversies on family violence. Newbury Pk. CA: Sage. [Good overview book. First 3 chapters take, in turn, psychological, sociological (Gelles) and feminist (Yllo) perspectives. Also a chapter by Walker. Good introduction to these different lenses, and attempt to be integrative.]

Gilligan, J. (1996). Violence: Our deadly epidemic and its causes. N.Y.: Grosset/Putnam. [This book is not about domestic violence, but rather about men's violence generally. It is based on Gilligan's experience as psychiatrist at Bridgewater State (hospital for the criminally insane). He is a psychodynamically oriented psychiatrist, but with a cultural and gender analysis as well. Generates interesting questions about domestic violence.]

Gondolf, E. (1998). Assessing woman battering in mental health services. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. A useful book for any mental health practitioner - very applied.

Hamberger, L.K. & Renzetti, C. (Eds.)(1996). Domestic Partner Abuse. N.Y.: Springer Publishing Co. [This volume challenges any simple theories or views of domestic violence. Its purpose is to address the controversial and recurrent questions. The introduction is a useful outline of what these are. Chapter 1 on gay and bisexual men basically says, "it's not about gender, primarily." Chapter 6 by D. Dutton, "Patriarchy and wife assault" similarly challenges "the ecological fallacy" in feminist ideas. This chapter argues for a psychological understanding, rooted in violent men's feelings of powerlessness in intimate situations. It should be read paired with the final chapter by Renzetti. The other issue addressed in a number of chapters is the contribution of biological and/or psychopathological factors to battering.]

Harway, M. & O'Neil, J. (1999). What causes Men's violence against women? Sage. Recommend preface and final chapter. The book attempts a multivariate model, including risk factors from each level of system. Builds from initial model by including contributions of chapter authors with varying perspectives (feminist, conflict, biological, socialization, interactional/relational, psychological (sort of), macrosocietal). Develops hypotheses of risk factors for male violence.

Koss, M., et. al. (1994). No safe haven: Male violence against women at home, at work, and in the community. Wash. D.C.:APA. Particularly: Chapter 3, The prevalence of intimate violence; chapter 4, Physical and psychological outcomes of partner violence, and chapter 5, Intimate violence: Treatment issues and policy initiatives. [Chapters 1 & 2 (Culture and context, the perpetrator and the victim) might also be good. The three chapters give a good overview of current literature and perspectives. Three attends to research methods and understudied populations. Four goes over trauma, learned helplessness, BWS, DSMIV and critiques. Five has very brief overview of battered women's movement and of state and federal initiatives.]

Massachusetts Coalition of Battered Women Service Groups, Inc. (1992). For shelter and beyond: Ending violence against battered women and their children. Boston, Ma.: Massachusetts Coalition of Battered Women Service Groups, Inc. [This is the analogue of Our Bodies Ourselves].

Roberts, A. R. (Ed) (1998). Battered Women and their Families, 2^nd edition. N.Y.: Springer

Schechter, S. (1982). Women and male violence: The visions and struggles of the battered women's movement. Boston, Ma.: South End Press. [This is a classic and seems to be out of print and hard to find. If you find a copy for sale somewhere, let me know!]

Straus, M., Gelles, and Steinmetz (1980). Behind Closed Doors: Violence in the American Family. N.Y.:Anchor Books. [Reports on the National studies of family violence, using the Conflict Tactics Scale].

Straus, M. & Gelles, R. (Eds.)(1990). Physical violence in American families. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books. [Basically, the next version of above.]

Tifft, L. (1993). Battering of Women: The failure of intervention and the case for prevention. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press. [This is an excellent overview, but..it is out of print, and Westview has not decided when/whether to reprint].

Yllo, K. & Bograd, M. (1988). Feminist perspectives on wife battering. Newbury Park, CA.: Sage. [Good chapters on batterer treatment (Adams), Stockholm syndrome, Feminist perspective. Local authors.]

ADVOCACY WITH BATTERED WOMEN

Massachusetts Coalition of Battered Women Service Groups, (1992). For shelter and beyond: Ending violence against battered women and their children. Boston: Massachusetts Coalition of Battered Women Service Groups, Inc. The movement against woman abuse, pp.16-20; Frontline feminism, pp. 29-32; Working in communities: four advocates' stories, pp. 58-67; Battered lesbians, pp. 75-77; legal advocacy, pp. 115-123.

Kanuha, V. (1998). Professional social work and the battered women's movement: Contextualizing the challenges of domestic violence work. Professional Development: The International Journal of Continuing Social Work Education 1, 4-18.

Peled, E., Eisikovits, Z, Enosh, G., & Winstok, Z. (2000). Choice and empowerment for battered women who stay: Toward a constructivist model. Social Work 45, 9-25.

ATTENTION TO RACE, CLASS, CULTURE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION

Coley, S. & Beckett, J. (1988). Black battered women: Practice issues. Social Casework: The Journal of Contemporary Social Work, October, 483-490.

Crenshaw, K. W. (1994). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity poltics, and violence against women of color. In M. Fineman & R. Mykitiuk (Eds.) The public nature of private violence. N.Y.:Routledge.

Ho, C. (1990). An analysis of domestic violence in Asian American communities: A multicultural approach to counseling. In L. Brown & M. Root (Eds.). Diversity and complexity in feminist therapy. N.Y.:Harrington Park Press.

Kanuha, V. (1996). Domestic violence, racism, and the battered women's movement in the United States. Chapter 3 in Edleson, J. & Eisikovits, Z. (Eds.) Future interventions with battered women and their families. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Lovel, K. (Ed.) (1986). Naming the violence:Speaking out about lesbian battering. Seattle, WA: Seal Press.

Massachusetts Coalition of Battered Women Service Groups (1992). For shelter and beyond: Ending violence against battered women and their children. Boston, Ma.: Massachusetts Coalition of Battered Women Service Groups, Inc. Chapter 6. Around the table: Diversity, leadership, and working together.

Rasche, C. (1988). Minority women and domestic violence: The unique dilemmas of battered women of color. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 4:150-171.

Richie, B. (1985). Battered Black women: A challenge for the Black community. The Black Scholar. March/April:40-44.

Richie, B. & Kanuha, V. (1993). Battered women of color in public health care systems: Racism, sexism, and violence. In B. Bair & S. Gayleff (Eds.). Women of gauze: Women of color and the experiences of health and illness. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Richie, B. (1996). Compelled to crime: The gender entrapment of battered black women. N.Y.:Routledge. [This may override her articles -- haven't read it yet.]

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Buzawa, E. & Buzawa, C. (1996). Do arrests and restraining orders work? Newbury Pk, CA:Sage. [This whole book would be a good resource for someone with this interest. The introduction is so badly edited that it's embarrassing, but some chapters are good. Ch. 2 (Straus) argues for distinguishing ordinary and high-risk violence, has a weak and risky argument. Ch. 3 (Gelles) reports attempts to replicate the Minnesota DV experiment of 1984. Conflicting results re effectiveness of arrest. Ch. 4 (Schmidt & Sherman) goes further: arrest backfires in poor communities. Ch. 5 (Hirshel & Hutchison) has good quote at end: symbolic importance of mandatory arrest, even if it does not deter. Ch. (Stark) I thought was best, but may be hard to understand without some look at prior ones. Looks at battering as coercive control, not extent of injury. Mandatory arrest and batterers' treatment as redistribution of resources, and pro-justice, whether they "work" or not. Makes useful distinction between woman abuse as violation of civil rights versus child or elder abuse, abuse of dependents, already had less civil rights.]

Fischer, K. & Rose, M. (1995). When 'enough is enough': Battered women's decision making around court orders of protection. Crime & Delinquency 41:414-429. [This is a good article, based on questionnaires and interviews with women getting protective orders. It stays close to real women's words, addresses barriers to legal action and psychological benefits of getting protective orders].

Koss, M. (2000) Blame,shame, and community: Justice responses to violence against women. American Psychologist 55, 1332-1343.

Mahoney, M. (1991). Legal images of battered women: Redefining the issue of separation. Michigan Law Review 90, 1-94.

Mills, L. (1996). Empowering battered women transnationally: The case for postmodern intervention. Social Work 41:261-267. [Good summary of legal models and programs. Argues for less determined, more flexible responses to give women more time and choice. Based on relational psychology argument. Interesting points and data. I like some of her conclusions, not her theory.]

Mills, L. (1998). Chapter 3 in The Heart of Intimate Abuse. N.Y. Springer

Mills, L. (1999) Killing her softly: Intimate abuse and the violence of state intervention. Harvard Law Review 113,2, 550-613.

Presser, L. & Gaarder, E. (2000). Can restorative justice reduce battering? Some preliminary considerations. Social Justice 27, 1750195.

Ptacek, J. (1999). Battered women in the courtroom: The power of judicial response. Boston: Northeastern U. Press. [A well written and thoughtful book, with mostly local data. The first two chapters should be required reading for their attention to race and class in both the phenomenon and the politics of domestic violence. Chapter 7 on women's experience with restraining orders is also recommended. The other chapters are important for those working in and/or with particular interest in the criminal justice system.]

Rasche, C. (1988). Minority women and domestic violence: The unique dilemmas of battered women of color. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 4:150-171.

THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

Richie, B. & Kanuha, V. (1993). Battered women of color in public health care systems: Racism, sexism, and violence. In B. Bair & S. Gayleff (Eds.). Women of gauze: Women of color and the experiences of health and illness. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Stark, E. & Flitcraft, Q. (1996). Personal power and institutional victimization: Treating the dual trauma of woman battering. Chapter 6 in Women at risk: Domestic violence and women's health. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

McGrath, M. (1997). Violence against women: Provider barriers to intervention in emergency departments. Academic Emergency Medicine 4, 297-300.

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT

Aldarondo, E. (1996). Cessation and persistence of wife assault: A longitudinal analysis. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 66:141-151. [Interesting report based on followup of some of National Family Violence Survey. Finds different patterns, not always escalating]. [Doesn't really belong in this section, but I don't know where else to put it.]

Ammerman, R. & Herson, M. (1992). Assessment of family violence. N.Y.: Wiley. Ch. 3: Clinical issues in the assessment of spouse abuse. [A clinician's guide, looks at three perspectives (social, couple, individual) and different implications for assessment, reviews assessment methods and difficulties in clinical context. Ch. 11 gives a good introduction to assessment issues, particularly CTS, including a modified version in appendix, and to correlates of abuse and predictors of dangerousness].

Gondolf, E. (1998). Assessing woman battering in mental health services. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [Consistently useful and worth owning.]

Stark, E. & Flitcraft, A. (1996). Clinical violence intervention: Lessons from battered women. Chapter 7 in Women at risk: Domestic violence and women's health. CA: Sage. [Good for definitions, basic assessments and interventions in health care context. Gendered analysis.]

CLINICAL APPROACHES

Adams, D. (1988). Treatment models of men who batter. Chapter 8 in Yllo, K. & Bograd, M. Feminist perspectives on wife battering. Newbury Park, CA.: Sage.

Almeida, R. and Bograd, M. (1991). Sponsorship: Men holding men accountable for domestic violence. Journal of Feminist Family Therapy 2:243-259. [One of the creative treatment approaches].

Bograd, M. (1994). Battering, competing clinical models, and paucity of research. The Counseling Psychologist 22:593-597. [Written as a response to Carden (below), but can stand on its own, I think. A useful small piece for those dealing with multiple inconsistent theories.]

Carden, A. (1994). Wife abuse and the wife abuser: Review and recommendations. The Counseling Psychologist 22: 539-582. [Maybe useful as it also uses an ecological model. Not very readable, though, and a bit overwhelming].

Caesar, P.L. and Hamberger, L.K. (Eds.)(1989). Treating men who batter: Theory, practice, and programs. N.Y.:Springer. [Good overview book. Ch. 1 on feminist-based interventions for battering men. Chs. 3 & 4 on cognitive-behavioral interventions.]

Gondolf, E. (1998). Assessing woman battering in mental health services. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Chapters 1, 4 - 7

Hansen, M. & Harway, M. (1993). Battering and family therapy: A feminist perspective. Newbury Park, CA.: Sage. [This has good chapters on batterer treatment (Gondolf), theories of battered women (Harway), therapists' responses (Harway & Hansen).]

Jenkins, A. (1990). Invitations to responsibility: The therapeutic engagement of men who are violent and abusive. Adelaide, Australia: Dulwich Centre Press.

Swift, C. (1987). Women and Violence: Breaking the Connection. Work in Progress, 27. Wellesley, Ma.: The Stone Center. [This is worthwhile on the psychology of women in abusive relationships. Overlaps some of Goldner, et al.]

White, M. (1991). Deconstruction and therapy. Chapter 7 in D. Epston and M. White, Experience, contradiction, narrative, and imagination. Adelaide: Dulwich Centre Publications. [Very creative treatment approach].

COUPLES THERAPY ISSUES

Bograd, M. & Mederos, F. (1999). Battering and conjoint therapy. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. [The current "last word" on this issue by two local and highly respected long-time workers in the field. Mederos is a co-founder of Common Purpose. Bograd is part of the Family Institute of Cambridge.]

Goldner, V., Penn, P., Sheinberg, M., Walker, G., (1990). Love and violence: Gender paradoxes in volatile attachments. Family Process 29:343-363. [This goes beyond the feminist critique to a less polarized position. Carefully reasoned and clinically based.]

Goldner, V. (1992) Making room for both/and. Family therapy networker 16:54-61. [Same approach as above, integrative, cautious acceptance couples tx for some couples. Explicitly moral questions.]

Golden, G. and Frank, P. (1994). When 50-50 isn't fair: The case against couple counseling in domestic abuse. Social Work 39:636-637. [Short and makes the point].

Lane, G. and Russell, T. (1989). Second order systemic work with violent couples. Chapter 6 in Caesar, P.L. and Hamberger, L.K. (Eds.) Treating Men who Batter: Theory, Practice, and Programs. N.Y.:Springer.

Lipchik, E. (1991). Spouse abuse: Challenging the party line. Family Therapy Networker, May/June:59-63. [Argues against a blanket rule about not doing couples' therapy where there has been abuse. Good companion piece with Golden & Frank.]

Spenkle, D.H. (1994). Wife abuse through the lens of "systems theory." Counseling Psychologist 22, 598-602. [A sophisticated 90's use of systems theory, beyond and inclusive of feminist critique.]

Willbach, D. (1989). Ethics and family therapy: The case management of family violence. Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy 15, 43-52.

SYSTEMS THEORY AND THIS ISSUE (History)

Bograd, M. (1984). Family systems approaches to wife battering. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 54:558-568. [An early feminist.] critique

Cook, D.B. and Frantz-Cook, A. (1984). A systemic treatment approach to wife battering. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy 10:83-89. [Pre-critique.]

Feldman, L.B. (1979). Marital conflict and marital intimacy: An integrative psychodynamic-behavioral-systemic model. Family Process 18:69-78. [Pre-critique.]

Giles-Smith, J. (1983). Wife Battering: A Systems Theory Approach. N.Y.:Guilford Press. [Uses an open systems model, more compatible with advocacy approaches than most systems theory from this era.]

Goldner, V. (1985). Feminism and family therapy. Family Process 24:31-47.

PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY AND THIS ISSUE

Celani, D. (1994). The illusion of love: Why the battered woman returns to her abuser. [This is an updated version of the old psychoanalytic masochism theme -- this time in the guise of personality disorders. Both abuser and victim are seen as having complementary personality disorders. Argues against feminist and political understandings of battering].

Herman, J. (1992). Trauma and recovery. N.Y.:Basic Books.

Young, G. and Gerson, S. (1991). New psychoanalytic perspectives on masochism and spouse abuse. Psychotherapy 28:30-38.

TYPOLOGIES OF ABUSIVE MEN

Holtzworth-Munroe, A. and Stuart, G. (1994). Typologies of batterers: Three subtypes and the differences. Psychological Bulletin 116:476-497. [This typology is useful.]

Saunders, D.G. (1992). A typology of men who batter women: Three types derived from cluster analysis. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 62:264-275. [Again, typologies seem useful.]

DIFFERENT CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE EFFECTS ON VICTIMS

Dutton, D. and Painter, S. (1993). The battered woman syndrome: Effects of severity and intermittency of abuse. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 63:614-622.

Gilfus, M. (1991). The effects of battering: Learned helplessness or brainwashing? Wisconsin Coalition against Domestic Violence Newsletter 10(3):2-5.

Graham, D., Rawlings, E., & Rimini, N. (1988). Survivors of terror: Battered women, hostages, and the Stockholm Syndrome. In K. Yllo & M. Bograd (Eds.), Feminist perspectives on wife battering. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Herman, J. (1992). Trauma and recovery. N.Y.:Basic Books.

Painter, S.L. & Dutton, D. (1985). Patterns of emotional bonding in battered women: Traumatic bonding. International Journal of Women's Studies, 8, 363-375.

Stark, E. & Flitcraft, A. (1996). Women at risk: Domestic violence and women's health. CA: Sage. [Research over 15? years in a medical setting. Feminist analysis of battering, includes health consequences and chapters on intervention.]

van der Kolk, B. (1988). The trauma spectrum: The interaction of biological and social effects in the genesis of the trauma response. Journal of Traumatic Stress 1:273-290.

Walker, L. (1984). The battered woman syndrome. N.Y.:Springer.

Walker, L. (1991). Posttraumatic stress disorder in women: Diagnosis and treatment of battered woman syndrome. Psychotherapy 28:21-29.

Walker, L. (1983). The battered woman syndrome study. In Finkelhor, Gelles, Hotaling, and Straus (Eds.), The dark side of families: Current family violence research. Beverly Hills, Ca.: Sage.

White, M. (1995). Naming abuse and breaking from its effects. Chapter 4 in Re-authoring lives: Interviews & essays. Adelaide, So. Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications. Pp. 82-111.

CHILDREN AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Edelson, J. (1995). Mothers and children: Understanding the links between women battering and child abuse. Paper presented at the Strategic planning workshop on violence against women, National Institute of Justice, Washington, D.C., March, 1995.

Edelson, J. (in press). The overlap between child maltreatment and women battering. Violence against women 5, 134-154.

Kolbo, J., Blakely, E, & Engleman, D. (1996). Children who witness domestic violence: A review of empirical literature. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 11:281-293.

Holden, G., Geffner, R., & Jourlies, E. (Eds.) (1998). Children exposed to marital violence. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Jaffe, P., Wolfe, D., & Wilson, S.K. (1990). Children of Battered Women. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. [This may be the basic book on this subject. Although not new, it is quite comprehensive and deals with many of the important questions, such as intergenerational transmission, family disruption, research, and intervention strategies.]

Kempe, R., & Kempe, H. (1978). Child Abuse. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Kolbo, J., Blakely, E, & Engleman, D. (1996). Children who witness domestic violence: A review of empirical literature. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 11, 281-293.

McKay, M. (1994). The link between domestic violence and child abuse: Assessment and treatment considerations. Child Welfare 73:29-39. [Evidence for overlaps. Addresses tensions between child welfare agencies and women's advocates. Includes guidelines for CPS workers].

Margolin, L. (1992). Beyond maternal blame: Physical child abuse as a phenomenon of gender. Journal of Family Issues 13:410-423. [Theory and data => male disproportionately (though not absolutely) responsible for physical child abuse. Theory piece is somewhat interesting.]

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. (1998). Emerging programs for battered mothers and their families. Reno, NV: National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (1999). Family violence legislative update, volume 4. Reno, NV: National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (1999). Domestic violence committed in the presence of a child: Enhanced penalties, separate crime, child endangerment, child in need of aid, etc. Unpublished paper.

O'Keefe, M. (1995). Predictors of child abuse in maritally violent families. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 10:3-25. [Report of a study of children of women in shelters, compares children who witnessed violence and were not abused themselves with children who were witnesses and also abused. Both at risk; latter, more. Characteristics which differentiate families of one from other statistically.]

Peled, E. (1996). "Secondary" victims no more: Refocusing intervention with children. Chapter 8 in Edleson, J. & Eiskikovits, Z. (Eds.) Future interventions with battered women and their families. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Peled, E. (1997). The battered women's movement response to children of battered women: A critical analysis. Violence Against Women 3, 424-446.

Peled, E. (1997). Supporting the parenting of battering men: Issues and dilemmas. DAP Training and Research Update, September, 2

Ross, S. (1996). Risk of physical abuse to children of spouse abusing parents. Child Abuse and Neglect 20:589-598. [Somewhat interesting as comes out of the New Hampshire family violence research project, data from national survey -- not clinical, and huge. About 11% of parents in sample abused children. Measures of marital violence somewhat problematic. Purpose of study is to find gender-specific probability of violent spouse abusing child. While association exists for men and women, it was much stronger for men.]

Schechter, S. (1996). The battered women's movement in the United States: New directions for institutional reform. Chapter 4 in Edelson, J. & Eisikovits, Z. Future interventions with battered women and their families. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

White, M. (1995). Reauthoring Lives: interviews and essays, Adelaide: Dulwich Centre Publishing.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND CHILD PROTECTION.

Aron, L. & Olson, K. (1997). Efforts by child welfare agencies to address domestic violence: The experience of five communities. N.Y.: Urban Institute Press.

Berliner, L. (1998). Introduction to the commentary: Battered women and abused children: The question of responsibility. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 13, 287-288.

Conroy, K. & Magen, R. (1996). Training child welfare workers on domestic violence: Trainers manual and participant's manual. N.Y.: Columbia University School of Social Work.

Cummings, N. & Mooney, A. (1988). Child protective workers and battered women's advocates: A strategy for family violence intervention. Response 11, 4-9 .

DSS Domestic Violence Protocol

Ecklin, C. & Marshall, L. (1995). Child protection services for children of battered women. Chapter 10 in Peled, E., Jaffe, P., & Edleson, J. (Eds.) Ending the cycle of violence: Community responses to children of battered women. Newbury Park, CA:Sage. [Argues that child witnessing wife beating = abuse. CPS should protect, but there are barriers. Definite point of view.]

Edelson, J. (1998). Responsible mothers and invisible men: Child protection in the case of adult domestic violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 13, 294-298.

Fleck-Henderson, A. (2000). Domestic violence in the Child Protection System: Seeing double. Children and youth services review 22, 333-354.

Fleck-Henderson, A. & Krug, S. (1998). Grounded training: Preparing child welfare supervisors for domestic violence work. Professional Development: The International Journal of Continuing Social Work Education 1, 19-26.

Mills, L. (1998). Integrating domestic violence assessment into child protective services intervention: Policy and practice implications. Chapter 6 in Roberts, A. (Ed.) Battered women and their families: Intervention strategies and treatment programs (2^nd edition). N.Y.:Springer

Mills, L. (1998). Chapters 1 & 4. The heart of intimate abuse. N.Y.:Springer.

Mills, L., et al. (2000). Child protection and domestic violence: Training, practice, and policy issues. Children and Youth Services Review 22.

Schechter, S. & Edleson, J. (1994). In the best interest of women and children: A call for collaboration between child welfare and domestic violence constituencies. Briefing paper for the conference "Domestic violence and child welfare: Integrating policies and practice for families."

Schechter, S. & Ganley, A. (1995). Domestic Violence: A National Curriculum for Family Preservation Practitioners.

Schechter, S. & Mihaly, L. (1992). Ending violence against women and children in Massachusetts families: Critical steps for the next five years. Boston, MA: Coalition of Battered Women Service Groups.

Stark, E. & Flitcraft, A. (1996). Women and children at risk: A feminist perspective on child abuse. Chapter 3 in Women at risk: Domestic violence and women's health. Newbury Park, CA.: Sage. [Basic argument: child abuse and wife battering both from masculine control and constrained roles for women. Have data => abuse of children disproportionately from men where there are men in the home. Also battered women likely to co-occur with child abuse (less likely the other way, as I read it). CPS exaggerates problem by replicating constrained definition women as mother only, blaming woman, cutting off options, threatening removals. Empowering interventions of CPS outlined. Important article, unfortunately not very readable. Good companion piece to Ecklin & Marshall.]

Wilson, C. (1998). Are battered women responsible for protection of their children in domestic violence cases? Journal of Interpersonal Violence 13, 289-293.

Special issues of two journals are devoted to child protection and domestic violence. They are Children and youth services review 22, 4 and 5 (edited by Linda Mills); Child maltreatment 4, 2 (edited by Jeff Edelson).

CROSS-CULTURAL

Counts, D., Brown, J., Campbell, J. (1992). Sanctions & sanctuary: Cultural perspectives on the beating of wives. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. [Various opinions on how trustworthy this book is. Most of the chapters are ethnographies of not industrialized societies in Oceania. Chapter 2 on evolutionary origin question and chapter 17, which pulls things together, seemed interesting to me.]

International Council of Women (Ed.) (1994). Proceedings of the International Conference on Violence in the Family. Amsterdam. [Some interesting papers put our child protective system into perspective relative to European systems. Different perspectives on the roles of the legal vs. and/or with the social service system; mandated reporting; good paper by Don Dutton on effects of batterer interventions.