1. Family Violence
... perspectives are the medical model, which puts blame solely on the individual, the political model, which puts blame on the values of society, the sociological model, which puts blame on the situation that the batterer is in, and the family systems model, which puts blame on the relationship between ... focus on blaming the woman's behavior, defining it as "provocative" or "deficient" (Ferraro, 1997: 262). Contrary to the medical model, the sociological perspective takes the blame of domestic violence off of the batterer and instead places it on the situation that he is in often as a res...
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