Battered Wives (a) RESEARCH ON BATTERED WIVES

HE definition of wife battering, types of phy-sical injuries, and background factors in a surveyof battered wives are reported elsewhere&dquo;’. Most of these cases were seen at Chiswick Women’s Aid Hostel, and are reviewed below. Other surveys view the subject from different aspects. Faulk3 reports on 66 women who needed radiological examination for non-accidental injuries. Marsden and Owens4 discuss 19 women who volunteered to give information. Gelless from New Hampshire, U.S.A., reports on forty families where there was a high proba-bility of violence as reported to the police and social agencies, and matches these with 40 families of neigh-bours. Scott6 collects the opinions of a committee set up by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and postulates som