Citation

Rosenbaum A. J. Fam. Violence 1988; 3(2): 91-104.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, 55 Lake Avenue North, 01605-2397 Worcester, Massachusetts

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF00994027

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Recent interest in all aspects of domestic violence has stimulated rapid proliferation of research and literature. Although the knowledge base has grown, what we don''t know still far exceeds what we do know. Starting from nothing, initial research tended to sweep with a wide broom in an effort to develop direction. The absence of an accepted methodology produced wide sample and design variations and inconsistent findings. The urgent press for information promoted a desire to disseminate facts that may have been less than factually derived from research that may have originally been seen as pilot in nature. This paper discusses the methodological issues that may have contributed to some of the inconsistencies in the marital violence literature and makes suggestions for the design and interpretation of research.