Valerie Clark: Intimate Partner Violence Among Adolescents: Causes and Correlates

Valerie Clark’s Intimate Partner Violence among Adolescents examines the degree that intimate partner violence occurs in adolescents as well as its causes and correlates. Her book defines intimate partner violence as violent offending or violent victimization, such as intimate terrorism, violent resistance, situational couple violence, and mutual violent control. Furthermore, intimate partner violence can be mutual or one-sided. She also highlights the key factors that cause intimate partner violence and how intimate partner violence is carried out in relationships, including peers, sex, and drug use. Nevertheless, there are many factors that go into an adolescent relationship especially when teens are at a period in their lives where they feel vulnerable and are searching for their true sense of self. The main purpose of the book was to showcase the prevalence of adolescent violence among intimate partners and to identify the factors that seem to cause the problem. It is written for an audience that is curious about adolescent intimate partner victimization and for those who want to address victimization within intimate partner relationships. …