Drawing on the expertise of authors from 21 countries to tell the story of domestic violence in their country, this book lends academic, professional, and victims′ expertise to determine these strengths and analyze how they can translate into greater safety for victims and increased accountability for perpetrators, including improved policy formation.

This one-of-a-kind edited collection draws on the expertise of authors from 16 countries representing 17 cultures to tell the story of domestic violence in their respective parts of the world. The book incorporates a strengths-based approach, including individual, relationship, community, and societal strengths. The collection draws on multiple perspectives (academics, counselors, organizers, activists, and victims) to determine strengths and analyze how they can translate into greater safety for victims, increased accountability of perpetrators, and improved policy formation and research. Each chapter focuses on the lived experiences of victims of intimate partner violence, child abuse, or elder abuse and includes information about the abuser, the family, the community, and the culture.

Introduction - Sylvia M. Asay, John DeFrain, Marcee Metzger, Bob Moyer
Africa
Chapter 1. Family Violence From a Global Perspective: Strengths-Based Research and Case Studies: The Case of South Africa - Busisiwe Nkosi and Priscilla S. Daniels
Chapter 2: Domestic Violence in Botswana: Factors That Help Women Overcome Abuse - Lois R. Mberengwa, Tapologo Maundeni and Kgomotso K. More
Chapter 3: Domestic Violence in Kenya: Strengths-Based Research - Jane Rose Njue, Dorothy Rombo, Laura S. Smark, Anne N. Lutomia and Lucy Wandiri Mbirianjau
Asia
Chapter 4: Domestic Violence in a Chinese Cultural Context: Who Gets the Blame? - Yan Xia, Cixin Wang, Shuhong Luo, Haiping Wang and Xiaoyun Zhang
Chapter 5: Family Violence From an Indian Perspective - Lina Kashyap and Trupti Panchal
Chapter 6: Marital Violence in South Korea - Grace H. Chung and Sun Wha Ok
Europe
Chapter 7: Domestic Violence Against Women in Greece - Theodora Kaldi-Koulikidou and Styliani Plevraki
Chapter 8: Family Violence in Moldova - Sylvia M. Asay, Valentina Bodrug-Lungu and Mihaela Robila
Chapter 9: Violence in the Modern Russian Family - Vladimir I. Zubkov
Latin America
Chapter 10: Intrafamilial Violence and Social Vulnerability: A Glimpse of the Reality in Brazil - Luisa Fernanda Habigzang, Jean Von Hohendorff and Silvia H. Koller
Chapter 11: Family Violence in Mexico - Rosario Esteinou
The Middle East
Chapter 12: Contextualizing Oppression and Family Violence in Israel: Israeli and Palestinian Experiences - Maha N. Younes
North America
Chapter 13: Family Violence in Canada - Nancy Nason-Clark, Barbara Fisher-Townsend, Steve McMullin and Catherine Holtmann
Chapter 14: Family Violence in the United States: A Community and a Country Respond - Marcee Metzger and Bob Moyer
Oceania
Chapter 15: Good Things Come to Those Who Wait: Striving to Address Domestic and Family Violence in Australia - Leanne Schubert, Penny Crofts and Kerri Bird
Chapter 16: Family Violence in Aotearoa, New Zealand - E. Catherine Dickey
Epilogue - Sylvia M. Asay, John DeFrain, Marcee Metzger, Bob Moyer
Index