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Colby, Catherine A. – 1980
Recent findings in the literature on child abuse have been inconsistent and often contradictory, perhaps in part because most researchers treat child abuse as a homogeneous psycho-social phenomenon and commit the error of group averaging. One methodology which deals directly with the problem of homogeneity error is the typology approach. This…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Family Characteristics
