When Battered Women Use Violence: Husband-Abuse or Self-Defense?

Battered Women Syndrome and Self-Defense

Battered pets and domestic violence: animal abuse reported by women experiencing intimate violence and by nonabused women.

Women residing at domestic violence shelters (S group) were nearly 11 times more likely to report that their partner had hurt or killed pets than a comparison group of women who said they had not experienced intimate violence (NS group). Reports of threatened harm to pets were more than 4 times higher for the S group. Using the Conflict Tactics Scale, the authors demonstrated that severe physic...

The Myth of the "Battered Husband Syndrome"

‘Battered pets’: sexual abuse

This is the third in a series of papers describing a study of physical abuse in dogs and cats that is, abuse by deliberate physical injury (so-called non-accidental injury [NAI] or ‘battered pets’ by analogy with the well documented ‘battered-child syndrome’ [Kempe and others 19621). The study was based on the experiences of a sample of small animal practitioners in the UK. The first paper publ...

Battered bodies & shattered minds: violence against women in Bangladesh.

Violence against women is a common and insidious phenomenon in Bangladesh. The types of violence commonly committed are domestic violence, acid throwing, rape, trafficking and forced prostitution. Domestic violence is the most common form of violence and its prevalence is higher in rural areas. A higher prevalence of verbal abuse than physical abuse by partners has been observed. The reasons me...