wife batterer

Malevolent behavior is what the group of 16 wife batterers expects from women, who, it seems, they neither like nor understand.

States began only 15 years ago to prosecute wife batterers and to declare marital rape a crime.

She countered the students' view that wife batterers fly out of control and hence aren't responsible.

He is a wife batterer.

This story is told in the locker room, where the wife batterer reaps inexhaustible sympathy from his buddies.

Last week, John Ritter, once the goofy comic foil of "Three's Company," popped up in a television movie as a vicious wife batterer.

The article by Judy Glass [ "Therapy for Wife Batterers," Aug. 14 ] was informative and essentially accurate.

Assumptions Are Questioned The therapies most commonly used in treating wife batterers assume that among their major problems are managing their anger and controlling their violent impulses.

Thus if a doctor writes that a patient is a suspected wife batterer with poor hygiene this can remain on file as it was the considered opinion of the doctor at the time.

This paradoxical physiological pattern contrasts with a prevailing view that wife batterers become more physically upset as their anger mounts and erupt in violence out of frustration, as a lapse in impulse control.

In fact, the nastiest wife batterer - who was presented as somebody quite chilling - was a graduate (I'm not sure what that says about graduates) and it did end with his wife actually leaving him.

Tyson's image as a wife batterer and rapist led African-Americans Against Violence to hold a vigil and march Monday evening in an attempt to focus more attention on black women who were victims of violence.

Judges - who in law school may have mastered the rules of procedure or the penal code - are now meant to know about the science of addiction, the pathology of wife batterers, the bureaucracy of welfare programs.

AS the death of Nicole Simpson has fixed the nation's attention on marital violence, new findings question the standard psychotherapeutic wisdom for husbands who batter their wives, suggesting that some therapies are futile for many wife batterers.

There's been a very interesting episode of The Bill which is about wife battering and makes all kinds of progressive points that wife batterers are not, in fact, the sort of British lower-class people of the stereotype.

When it comes to predicting which wife batterers will kill their wives, Dr. Julie Blackmun, a psychologist in Montclair, N.J., and trial consultant in cases of domestic violence, said: "We only have broad statistical correlations.

Call it Christmas or call it Wednesday, Judge Scherer was still faced with accused wife batterers, shoplifters, fare beaters, gun possessors, armed robbers and crack dealers, and she was not of a mind to be soft-hearted.

"We simply don't know with any precision what particular wife batterers go on to commit homicide," said Dr. Angela Brown, a psychologist in Boston who reviewed the existing data in a article in The American Psychologist in October 1993.

In Dr. Jacobson's study, which was the first to make laboratory observations of couples where wife battery is common, "antisocial" men, whose heart rates fall as they get more belligerent, were about 15 times as likely as other wife batterers to be violent outside their marriages.