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Twenty-five experts find violence to be a phenomenon of all societies and among all age-groups, almost without exception, with the most frequent victims being women and children.

Table of Contents

Forewords by Lenore E. A. Walker and Benjamin B. Wolman Preface by Leonore Loeb Adler and Florence L. Denmark Violence: A Societal Phenomenon Motivational Approach to Violent Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspective by Sergei V. Tsytsarev and Charles V. Callahan Machismo Values and Violence in America: An Empirical Study by Robert S. Lee Assessment of Attitudes toward Terrorism by Harold Takooshian and William M. Verdi Violence Involving the Young Violent Youth: Reflections on Contemporary Child-Rearing Practices in America as an Antecedent Cause by June F. Chisholm Trauma in Children's Lives: Issues and Treatment by Jack L. Herman, Barbara A. Mowder, Linda Moy, and Linda Sadler Incest: The Most Personal Violence by Dan Meyer Violence in the Schools by Joseph O'Donoghue Juvenile Violence and the Death Penalty by Joan M. Reidy Merlo Violence in Adulthood Male Violence Against Women: A Global Health and Development Issue by Nancy Felipe Russo, Mary P. Koss, and Lisa Goodman Domestic Violence and Its Prevention by Herbert H. Krauss and Beatrice J. Krauss Gender-Stereotypes and the Problem of Marital Violence by Gwendolyn L. Gerber Women and Crime by Barbara Cowen Prevention of Family Violence for the Female Alcoholic by Jean Cirillo Elder Violence (Maltreatment) in Domestic Setting: Some Theory and Research by Margot B. Nadien Epilogue: Traditional Buddhist Ladakh; A Society at Peace by Uwe P. Gielen Bibliography Index

About the Author

LEONORE LOEB ADLER is Professor Emerita of Psychology and director of the Institute of Cross-Cultural and Cross-Ethnic Studies at Molloy College in New York. She has published 14 books, among them The International Handbook on Gender Roles (Greenwood, 1993), Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Praeger, 1991), and Cross-Cultural Research in Human Development: Life-Span Perspectives (Praeger, 1989). FLORENCE L. DENMARK is Robert Scott Pace Professor of Psychology and chair of the department of Psychology at Pace University. She has published 16 books, including Psychology of Women: A Handbook of Issues and Theories (Greenwood, 1993).