A Typology of Domestic Violence: Intimate Terrorism, Violent Resistance, and Situational Couple ViolenceDomestic violence, a serious and far reaching social problem, has generated two key debates among researchers. The first debate is about gender and domestic violence. Some scholars argue that domestic violence is primarily male perpetrated, others that women are as violent as men in intimate relationships. Johnson's response to this debate and the central theme of this book is that there is more than one type of intimate partner violence. Some studies