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Dark Side of Love - Blue and White Collar Wife Abuse

NCJ Number
101177
Journal
Victimology Volume: 10 Issue: 1-4 Dated: (1985) Pages: 242-252
Author(s)
R N Harris; R W Bologh
Date Published
1985
Length
11 pages
Annotation
This study does a content analysis of the records of 34 male batterers who underwent psychotherapy.
Abstract
Abstracted cognitions that provide a rationale for their battering are grouped into two categories, those that express feelings of injustice and those that express a sense of worthlessness. Variations in the way certain dimensions of the traditional male sex role play themselves out among blue collar and white collar men suggest that male battering may be understood best in terms of both cultural definitions of manhood and structural constraints that operate when striving for manhood. (Author abstract)

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