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Current Controversies On Family Violence Summary

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As explained in chapter 4 of “Current Controversies on Family Violence,” “prevention of violence against women requires strong efforts to end assaults by women” (Loseke, pg.68). According to Loseke, one of the preventive measures to stop assaults towards men would be to fund “school-based prevention programs addressed to girls as well as to boys” (Loseke, pg. 69). As it was constantly mentioned in the chapter, assaults against men typically sustain the same rate as assaults against women although, assaults against men foster lower amount of police reports due to a constant bias in the police department and pervasive social norms that avert males from reporting abuse. For example, men who report abuse can be ripped off of their masculinity

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