Paul Clements & Jennifer Pierce-Weeks 
Violence Against Women 
Contemporary Examination of Intimate Partner Violence

628 pages, 34 images, 51 contributors



Violence Against Women examines a wide range of relationships that may be affected by intimate partner violence and takes a culturally sensitive, international approach to issues underpinning family violence, dating violence, and the injuries children suffer when their caregivers perpetrate violence. This text offers insight into a variety of subjects affecting women domestically and internationally.


These subjects include:

—Risk assessment for intimate partner violence

—Safety planning for victims of intimate partner violence

—Criminal prosecution of and protective orders against intimate partner violence

—Homicide and suicide related to intimate partner violence

—Intimate partner violence in China and among Chinese Americans

—Intimate partner violence in LGBTQI relationships —Occurrence of and intervention in cases of intimate partner violence in the military

Table of Content

1. Risk and Protective Factors for IPV

2. Assessing for IPV

3. Risk Assessment in IPV

4. General Indicators of IPV in Women’s Health

5. Protective Orders and Economic Abuse in Domestic Violence: A Case Study

6. Investigating IPV: The Legal Response

7. IPV: Prosecution and Medical Issues

8. Winning in Court: Maximizing Protection through Prosecution

9. IPV and Child Protection: The Journey to Collaborative Intervention Approaches

10. Safety Planning

11. An Overview of Best Practices to Prevent IPV

12. The WHO, UN and Red Cross Approaches to IPV

13. IPV and Sexual Assault: A Global Perspective

14. Strangulation in the Living IPV Patient

15. Stalking

16. Fatal Intimate Partner Violence

17. Sex-Related Homicide

18. IPV and Mental Health Outcomes

19. Suicide and IPV

20. IPV During Pregnancy

21. The Continuum of IPV and Child Maltreatment: Definitions, Epidemiology, and Health Consequences

22. Intergenerational Transmission of IPV

23. IPV and the Mother Who Kills

24. Feminist Perspective: IPV and the Intersection with Health Care

25. LGBTQI Culture Considerations

26. IPV in the Military Community

27. Violence on the Streets: the Abuse, Assault and Murder of Sex Workers

28. The Co-occurrence of IPV and HIV

29. IPV in China and the Chinese American Community

About the author

Catherine Mortiere is a Forensic and Clinical Psychologist who works as an expert for the state of New York in the areas of dangerousness and risk analysis in forensic populations, as well as the treatment and evaluation of sexually violent predators. Her psychiatric experience has covered a broad scope of work; including individual, group and team-based treatment for mothers who killed their children, and persons with borderline and anti-social personality, psychopathy, trauma/disaster, and substance/chemical abuse. SHe works in a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane, where the majority of her patients have been adjudicated as not guilty by reason of insanity and has a successful clinical private practice. Besides her work in forensics, she is an adjunct professor for the City University of New York.