What Causes Men's Violence Against Women?

James M. O’Neil, Ph.D. is Professor of Educational Psychology and Family Studies Psychology at the University of Connecticut and a licensed psychologist in private practice in South Windsor, Connecticut. In 1975, he received his doctorate from the Department of Counseling and Personnel Services at the University of Maryland. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association in Divisions 17, 35, 43, 51, 52, 56. He is one of the founding members of the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity (SPSMM), Division 51 of the American Psychological Association. SPSMM named him Researcher of the Year in 1997 for his 20-year research program on men’s gender role conflict. His research programs relate to men and masculinity, gender role conflict, psychology of men and women, forgiveness, violence, and victimization. He is the author of the Gender Role Conflict Scale, a widely used measure of men’s conflict with their gender roles. His last book (with Michele Harway) was What Causes Men’s Violence Against Women? (Sage, 1999). In 1991, he was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Scholarship by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, to lecture in the former Soviet Union. He lectured at Moscow State Pedagogical University from February through April, 1992, on such topics as psychological counseling, psychology of gender roles, and victimization. In 1995, he was awarded Teaching Fellow status by the University of Connecticut for his outstanding excellence and dedication to the university teaching profession. In 2008, he received the Distinguished Professional Service Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity of APA for his significant contributions at the local, state, and national levels in promoting men’s well-being. His summary of over 200 empirical studies on men’s gender role conflict (O’Neil, 2008) resulted in being awarded The 2009 Counseling Psychologist Outstanding Contribution Award from Division 17 (Counseling Psychology). In the same year he was inducted into Athletic Hall of Fame of Marathon Central School Hall in a ceremony in his hometown of Marathon, New York.

• Foreword - Joseph R Biden, JrPART ONE: BOOK CONTEXT AND CRITIQUES OF O′NEIL AND HARWAY′S MULTIVARIATE MODEL EXPLAINING MEN′S VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMENWhat Causes Men to be Violent Against Women? The Unanswered and Controversial Question - Michele Harway and James M O′NeilPreliminary Multivariate Model Explaining the Causes of Men′s Violence Against Women - James M O′Neil and Michele HarwayFeminist Perspectives on Male Violence Against Women - Amy J Marin and Nancy Felipe RussoCritiquing O′Neil and Harway′s ModelMale Offenders - Richard J GellesOur Understanding from the DataPART TWO: BIOLOGICAL, NEUROANATOMICAL, HORMONAL AND EVOLUTIONARY FACTORS EXPLAINING MEN′S VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMENBiological Perspectives on Violence Against Women - Anthony F GreeneThe Evolutionary Origins of Male Violence Against Women - Louise B SilversteinPART THREE: MEN′S AND WOMEN′S GENDER-ROLE SOCIALIZATION AND GENDER-ROLE CONFLICT1 FACTORS EXPLAINING MEN′S VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMENMen′s Gender-Role Conflict, Defense Mechanisms and Self Protective Defensive Strategies - James M O′Neil and Rodney A NadeauExplaining Men′s Violence Against Women from a Gender-Role Socialization PerspectiveWomen′s Gender-Role Socialization, Gender-Role Conflict and Abuse - Roberta L NuttA Review of Predisposing FactorsPART FOUR: RELATIONAL AND INTERACTIONAL FACTORS EXPLAINING MEN′S VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMENSystems Perspectives on Battering - Stephen A Anderson and Margaret C SchlossbergThe Importance of Context and PatternInter-Gender Relational Dimensions of Violence Toward Women - Sandra Rigazio-DiGilio and A Stephan LanzaA Co-Constructive-Developmental PerspectivePART FIVE: MACROSOCIETAL, RACIAL AND CULTURAL EXPLANATIONS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMENThe Interaction between Societal Violence and Domestic Violence - Janis Sanchez-Hucles and Mary Ann DuttonRacial and Cultural FactorsPART SIX: THEORETICAL PROPOSITIONS, REVISED MULTIVARIATE MODEL OF MEN′S RISK FACTORS, NEW HYPOTHESES AND PREVENTIVE RECOMMENDATIONSRevised Multivariate Model Explaining Men′s Risk Factors for Violence Against Women - James M O′Neil and Michele HarwayTheoretical Propositions, New Hypothoses and Proactive Recommendations