Use the resources on this page to help you find credible sources to support your paper.

This assignment requires you to write a 3- to 5-page paper. You must select one of the theories below that you feel best explains why people commit domestic violence. Describe the theory and the work that supports it.

List of Theories:

1. Family System Theory
2. Perversion Theory
3. Self-Attitude Theory
4. Learned Helplessness Theory
5. Survivor Theory
6. Stress Theory
7. Social Learning Theory
8. Patriarchy Theory
9. Conflict Theory
10. Social Bond Theory

Type the name of your chosen theory on the Find page of this guide and in any of the following suggested databases below.

Try searching with and without quotation marks to see which method retrieves better results. For example:

• "learned helplessness theory"
• "social learning theory"
• "social bond theory"

The quotation marks tells the database to search for the words together and may narrow the search results.

Below is an example search within Gale eBooks:

Below is an example search within Credo Reference: