Backs Against the Wall

Deals with several controversial aspects involved with intimate partner violence (IPV) - namely the approaches many victims use when resisting their oppressors. This book refutes the sweeping assertions made by the antifeminist-based mindset that women are as violent as men in cases of IPV perpetration.

This book is a valuable resource for activists, educators, students, health providers, justice system workers, advocates, and researchers. This book was published as a special issue of the "Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma".

1 Introduction and Overview to Special Issue
Kathy A. McCloskey and Marilyn Sitaker VICTIM ARRESTS
2 Are Half of all IPV Perpetrators Women? Putting Context Back into the Intimate Partner Violence Research Field
Kathy A. McCloskey 3 Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Arrest Rates Across Recent Studies
Mekha Rajan and Kathy A. McCloskey 4 Why Do Police Arrest Victims of Domestic Violence? The Need for Comprehensive Training and Investigative Protocols
Anne O'Dell 5 Victim-Defendants in Mandated Treatment: An Ethical Quandary
Donna Gardner 6 "Sorry, We Have to Take You In": Black Battered Women Arrested for Intimate Partner Violence
Carolyn M. West CULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES
7 Non-Violent Survival Strategies in the Face of Intimate Partner Violence and Economic Discrimination
Dana-Ain Davis 8 Using the Theory of Gender and Power to Examine Experiences of Partner Violence, Sexual Negotiation, and Risk of HIV/AIDS among Economically Disadvantaged Women in Southern India
Subadra Panchanadeswaran, Sethulakshmi C. Johnson , Vivian F. Go, A. K. Srikrishnan, Sudha Sivaram, Suniti Solomon, Margaret E. Bentley, and David Celentano 9 The Ecology of Intimate Partner Violence: Theorized Impacts on Women's Use of Violence
Marilyn Sitaker