Preventing relapse versus “stopping” domestic violence: Do we expect too much too soon from battering men?

Given the deeply entrenched habit patterns that characterize domestic violence, the author questions the enormous demands for change that are immediately placed on both abusive men and the clinicians treating them. Battering men are not only required to abruptly and permanently halt overt physical violence, but they are also expected to stop all expressions of dominance and intimidation, and to abandon all their exploitative attitudes and sex-role expectations as well. While it is feasible and necessary to insist upon the cessation of physical violence in order to protect the spouse and family, to what degree can the clinician also demand a total revolution in the abusive male's attitudes, social behavior, and values? To better demonstrate the excessivity of these demands, the author makes a comparison to the treatment of substance abusers, where the features of relapse and enduring cognitive distortions are expected and permitted as part of the normal extended course of recovery. Instead, the author proposes a more realistic and humanitarian set of therapeutic expectations for change, emphasizing relapse prevention and supportive maintenance.     

Battered Women and the Criminal Justice System: The Service Providers' Perspective

This article reports on a study of the service providers' perspective on what battered women face when entering the criminal justice system. Victim non-co-operation with the system can manifest itself in various ways and at several points in the process. The article begins with a review of the available literature on the criminal justice system's responses to women battering. Then the experiences and perceptions of service providers in Ohio concerning these responses are described, and, consequently, the findings according to factors which may affect service providers responses are analyzed. The article concludes with an assessment of the policy implications of the system's response to women battering.     

Exploring the Stressors of Low-Income Women with Abusive Partners: Understanding Their Needs and Developing Effective Community Responses

This study examined how women's experiences of domestic violence may affect their level of stress, as measured by difficult life circumstances and stressful life events for 107 women living in poverty. Results indicated that women with abusive partners reported higher levels of stress than women who had not experienced abuse. Women's perceptions of how their experiences of domestic violence impacted their health and the type of events women perceived to be most stressful were also examined. Symptoms most frequently perceived to be a result of abusive experiences were heart pounding/racing, trembling hands, headaches, and sleep problems. Implications of the findings for research and community intervention are discussed, including the importance of providing not only crisis intervention services, but also the need to create and maintain long-term support and advocacy services for women who have experienced domestic violence.     

Understanding Russia’s energy turn to China: domestic narratives and national identity priorities

This study investigates whether, as part of a broader “Asian Energy Pivot,” Russia’s energy giant Gazprom refashioned its export strategy away from Europe, and what impact such a reorientation might have on the EU–Russia gas relationship. It uses four empirical cases to emphasize the domestic movers underlying Russia’s eastward shift in energy trade, developing a constructivist theory rooted in the dynamics of Russia’s dominant public narrative and the contours of domestic politics. It argues that Russia’s national interests changed as a result of how Russian policy-makers interpreted and reacted to the stand-off with Europe, in response to what they perceived as Europe’s attempt to isolate it economically and geopolitically. Russia’s Eurasianists, who had advocated the notion of a necessary turn to the East for a long time, positioned themselves as norm entrepreneurs and their new interpretation of the preexisting material incentives shaped the future course of action.     

La nacionalización del hogar en España

The nationalization of the domestic sphere in Spain is a topic that has been largely ignored. Recently, the interest in the study of banal nationalism and the impact of nationalism on everyday life has been on the rise, particularly for the Francoist and democratic era; however, its origins are not clear at all. An examination of developments in domestic architecture, interior decoration, and even gardening shows that the domestic sphere was nationalized during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Regionalist architecture was in vogue for villas and country-houses and furniture was increasingly modeled after local artisanal traditions. Domestic practices such as cooking, consuming, and cleaning were also increasingly connected with supposedly “national” traditions. During this period Spanish cuisine and many of its regional dishes were “invented”. The first phase of the nationalization of the domestic sphere in Spain is analyzed using a wide array of primary sources (press, manuals, speeches, etc.), thus contributing to the history of nationalism, gender studies, the history of architecture, and food studies, which by focusing on modernization processes largely disregarded this profound nationalization of the private sphere.     

家庭冷暴力的法律规制

家庭冷暴力属于精神暴力,它是与身体暴力、性暴力并存的家庭暴力形式。目前,我国在防治家庭冷暴力方面存在如立法缺失、司法界定难、追究法律责任难等诸多困境。因此,应尽快出台《家庭暴力防治法》,明确家庭冷暴力的法律责任,实行举证责任倒置原则,扩大证据形式,赋予受害人精神损害赔偿的权利,不断完善我国家庭立法,进而保护受害者的合法权益。     

青年教师协调教学与科研关系之浅见

作为高校中的主要力量和重要支柱,如何实现教学和科研双赢已成为青年教师面临的最大挑战和重要问题。概述了教学和科研二者关系的演进历程,并分析了当前青年教师教学与科研工作的现状,在此基础上,提出了协调教学与科研关系,促进高校青年教师发展的途径和方法。     

论警校学员擒拿格斗训练中的身体协调能力及其培养

擒拿格斗是一项对身体协调能力要求较高的训练项目,协调能力在擒拿格斗训练和实战中有着重要作用,注重协调能力的培养对于技能训练效果有着不可低估的优化作用,有利于改正错误动作,促进动作技能之间的正迁移,减少运动损伤,在实战中能弥补训练的不足。本文通过对学员协调能力相关知识介绍,结合擒拿格斗的特点与需要,分析与探讨了警校学员在擒拿格斗训练当中进行协调性训练的重要意义,并对其如何进行协调性练习进行了概述。     

Women＇s Oppression in the Family-based Mode of Production： Reading The Main Enemy： A Materialist Analysis of Women＇ s Oppression

克里丝汀·德尔菲在《主要的敌人：女性压迫的唯物主义分析》中,从女性介入的独特生产关系—家庭生产方式中找到了女性受压迫的物质性根源,使对女性问题的分析深深地扎根于历史唯物主义的理论领域,从而在马克思主义与女性主义之间找到了结合点,为解决当时女性主义面临的理论难题,进行了有益的尝试。     

涉税犯罪案件侦查中税警协作问题及应对策略分析

随着我国经济与社会的高速发展,作为经济领域犯罪中一种常见且突出的犯罪类型,涉税犯罪近年来呈现出高发趋势。如何切实、有效地打击涉税犯罪活动,根本遏制涉税犯罪案件的发展是当前公安机关着重解决的重要问题。而加强公安机关与税务机关的协作则是其中的一个关键环节。