Violence in Dating Relationships

?With the increasing public awareness of and concern about acquaintance rape, this is an excellent and timely book. It should be in the library of any researcher who studies violence against women and it would also be an invaluable resource for any college faculty or administrator who seeks to provide a healthy educational environment for all students.?-The Community Psychologist "With the increasing public awareness of and concern about acquaintance rape, this is an excellent and timely book. It should be in the library of any researcher who studies violence against women and it would also be an invaluable resource for any college faculty or administrator who seeks to provide a healthy educational environment for all students."-The Community Psychologist

MAUREEN PIROG-GOOD is Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. She has published extensively on programs for male batterers and dating violence. Articles have appeared in Social Science Quarterly, Social Psychology Quarterly, Contemporary Policy Issues, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Journal of Family Violence. JAN E. STETS is Professor of Sociology at Washington State University. She recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire.

Physical Abuse in Dating Relationships Dating Violence: Prevalence, Context, and Risk Markers by David B. Sugarman and Gerald Hotaling The Marriage License as a Hitting License: A Comparison of Assaults in Dating, Cohabitating, and Married Couples by Jan E. Stets and Murray A. Straus A Theoretical Model of Courtship Aggression by David S. Riggs and K. Daniel O'Leary Gender Identity, Self-Esteem, and Physical and Sexual Abuse in Dating Relationships by Peter J. Burke, Jan E. Stets, Maureen A. Pirog-Good Dating, Living Together, and Courtship Violence by James Makepeace The Help-seeking Behavior of Physically and Sexually Abused College Students by Maureen A. Pirog-Good and Jan E. Stets Conflict and Violence in Dating Relationships Sexual Abuse in Dating Relationships by Sally A. Lloyd, James E. Koval, Rodney M. Cate Sexual Abuse in Dating Relationships Hidden Rape: Sexual Aggression and Victimization in a National Sample of Students in Higher Education by Mary P. Koss Date Rape: Prevalence, Risk Factors and a Proposed Model by Paula Lundberg-Love and Robert Geffner Courtship Aggression and Mixed-Sex Peer Groups by Pat Gwartney-Gibbs and Jean Stockard The Sexual Victimization of Unmarried Women by Nonrelative Acquaintances by Joanne Belknap Predictors of Naturalistic Sexual Aggression by Neil Malamuth Misinterpreted Dating Behaviors and the Risk of Date Rape by Charlene L. Muehlenhard Acquaintance Rape on Campus: Responsibility and Attributions of Crime by Sarah Fenstermaker Bibliography Index