1. Survey of the Family Abuse Landscape Family Abuse as a Matter of Public Concern / Family Abuse as a Focus of Professional Attention / Defining Abuses / Using Social Science Methods to Study Abuse in the Family / Systems or Ecological Approaches / Relationships Between Forms of Abuse 2. Child Physical Abuse Social and Historical Context / Defining the Problem / Overview of Major Types of Injuries / Psychological Impacts / Intergenerational Transmission: The Violence-Begets-Violence Theory / A Systems or Ecological Approach to Understanding Risk and Resiliency Factors / Resiliency or Protective Factors / A Special Category of Child Physical Abuse: Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy 3. Child Psychological Maltreatment and Child Neglect Child Psychological Maltreatment / What is Psychological Maltreatment? / What Do We Need to Know About Psychological Maltreatment? / Child Neglect 4. Child Sexual Abuse The Problem / The Victims / Models of Victimology and Emerging Trends 5. Child Maltreatment: Investigation, the Courts, and Intervention Reporting Suspected Child Maltreatment / Child Protective Services Investigation and Interviewing Procedures / Risk Assessment / Initial Intervention by CPS / Juvenile Civil Court Action - Dependency Proceedings / Social Service Intervention / Child Abuse and Criminal Proceedings / False Memory/Repressed Memory Controversy / Problems, Issues, and Trends in Intervention 6. Sexual Offenders Types of Offenders / Psychiatric Diagnosis and Sexual Offenders / Profile Models / The Four-Factor Offender Model / The Addiction Model / A Special Class of Offenders: Children and Adolescents / Concluding Comments About Sexual Offenders / Intervention and Treatment 7. Domestic Violence A Brief Look at the Historical Context / What Is Domestic Violence? A Working Definition / How Common Is Domestic Violence? Incidence and Prevalence / The Controversy About the Rate of Male and Female Domestic Violence / What Is the Impact of Battering on Its Victims? / The Cycle of Violence / Why Do Women Stay? / Explanations and Risk Factors / Classifying Perpetrators / Intervention 8.

Elder Maltreatment Historical Context / What is Elder Maltreatment? / How Big Is the Problem? / What Are the Indicators of Maltreatment? / What is The Impact of Elder Maltreatment? / Explanations and Risk Factors / Efforts to Deal with Elder Maltreatment References/Index (Each chapter concludes with a Chapter Summary).