Understanding Marital Violence

This book examines the roles and interconnections between structural factors and individual agency in marital violence, focusing on women in heterosexual marital relationships.

Kausiki Sarma, PhD, is currently working as a Research Associate at the Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, UK.

1. Introduction. 2.Typology of marital violence and its impact: A capabilities approach. 3.Re-victimisation or secondary victimisation within and through the civil-criminal justice system. 4.Structure as context in marital violence. 5.Agency in marital violence as hybridisation of habitus and reflexivity: Locating its characteristics, enablers, and deterrents. 6.Conclusion. Appendix