Interpersonal Violence – serie
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26 produkter
Coercive Control
How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life
Av Stark
Häftad, 2009
599 kr
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The battle against domestic violence has focused primarily on incidents of extreme physical abuse and the resulting trauma to the victim. While there is a growing understanding of some forms of psychological abuse, such as stalking, there is less understanding of the pattern of abuse where physical …
State-Sanctioned Violence
Advancing a Social Work Social Justice Agenda
Inbunden, 2020
863 kr
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The helping professions and social scientists traditionally seek concepts and paradigms that can be used in shaping research and services focused on marginalized populations in the United States. Various perspectives have garnered attention across disciplines with intersectionality as a recent, …
Women, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Law
Inbunden, 2021
1319 kr
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Every year, millions of women across the world turn to the law to help them live free from intimate partner violence. They engage with child protection services and police and apply for civil protection orders. They seek family court orders to keep their children safe from violent fathers, and take …
Collaborating for Change
Transforming Cultures to End Gender-Based Violence in Higher Education
Inbunden, 2020
844 kr
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In the midst of unprecedented attention to gender based violence (GBV), prompted in part by the #MeToo movement, Collaborating for Change: Transforming Cultures to End Gender-Based Violence in Higher Education provides a groundbreaking analysis of higher education culture and how it can be …
Marital Rape
Consent, Marriage, and Social Change in Global Context
Av Kersti Yllö, M. Gabriela Torres
Inbunden, 2016
1683 kr
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Rape in marriage is a global problem affecting millions of women -- it is still legal in many countries and was only criminalized in all U.S. states in 1993. In much of the world, marital rape is too often understood as an oxymoron due to the fact that the ideology of permanent consent underlies …
Civil and Criminal Justice Responses to the Sexual Victimization of American Indian and Alaska Native Children
Contexts, Decisions, and Outcomes
Inbunden, 2026
1344 kr
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Child sexual abuse (CSA) is an intensely private act, but it can also be seen as a significant social problem. It causes great harm to not only child victims but also families, occurs on an unacceptably frequent basis and, in response, has resulted in the creation of an elaborate and confusing …
Religion and Intimate Partner Violence
Understanding the Challenges and Proposing Solutions
Av Nancy Nason-Clark, Barbara Fisher-Townsend m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1315 kr
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Intimate partner violence is a complex, ugly, fear-inducing reality for large numbers of women around the world. When violence exists in a relationship, safety is compromised, shame abounds, and peace evaporates. Violence is learned behavior and it flourishes most when it is ignored, minimized, or …
Islamophobia and Acts of Violence
The Targeting and Victimization of American Muslims
Inbunden, 2022
639 kr
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Islamophobia and Acts of Violence: The Targeting and Victimization of American Muslims is a collection of perspectives by authors from a variety of academic disciplines such as legal studies, communication studies, political science, and criminology on the subject of Anti-Muslim hate crimes. …
Women's Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century
A Transnational Feminist Analysis of Women's Lives in Modern Times
Inbunden, 2019
520 kr
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Written through the lens of transnational feminism, Women's Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century offers a global view into the patriarchal attitudes that shape cultural practices that oppress women and continue to take form in the modern era. By examining a range of issues, the book compels …
Parenting by Men Who Batter
New Directions for Assessment and Intervention
Av EDLESON, Jeffrey L. Edleson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
840 kr
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What is the best way to work with fathers who have a history of abusive behavior? This question is among the thorniest that social service and criminal justice professionals must deal with in their careers, and in this essential new work Jeffrey L. Edleson, Oliver J. Williams, and a group of …
Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women
Av James Ptacek
Inbunden, 2009
1086 kr
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Despite significant accomplishments over the past 35 years, antiviolence activists know that justice for most abused women remains elusive. Most victims do not call the police or seek help from the courts, making it crucial to identify new ways for survivors to find justice. This path-breaking book …
Childhood Victimization
Violence, crime, and abuse in the lives of young people
Inbunden, 2008
1653 kr
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Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population, and a substantial number face multiple, serious "poly-victimizations" during a single year. Despite the fact that the priority emphasis in academic research and government policy has traditionally gone to studying juvenile …
Violence in Context
Current Evidence on Risk, Protection, and Prevention
Av HERRENKOHL ET AL, Todd I. Herrenkohl m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1109 kr
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Public and academic interest in youth and community violence has grown with school shootings, horrific cases of child abuse, and reports of domestic abuse becoming regular news features. Research on interpersonal violence has had a corresponding progression, but there is a tendency by researchers …
Poverty, Battered Women, and Work in U.S. Public Policy
Inbunden, 2011
1101 kr
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Drawing on longitudinal interviews, government records, and personal narratives, feminist sociologist Lisa Brush examines the intersection of work, welfare, and battering. Brush contrasts conventional wisdom with illuminating analyses of social change and social structures, highlighting how race …
Urban Gun Violence
Self-Help Organizations as Healing Sites, Catalysts for Change, and Collaborative Partners
Inbunden, 2021
877 kr
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Gun violence occurs in urban areas more than it does anywhere else, and youth of color in these areas are disproportionately impacted in the United States. How can we approach this? What can we do to stop this from happening in the first place? In addition to trying to bolster the barriers one must …
Children of Coercive Control
Av Evan Stark
Inbunden, 2024
547 kr
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Children of Coercive Control extends Evan Stark's path-breaking analysis of interpersonal violence to children, showing that coercive control is the most important cause and context of child abuse and child homicide outside a war zone, as well as of the sexual abuse, denigration, exploitation, …
Hardship Duty
Women's Experiences with Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault, and Discrimination in the U.S. Military
Inbunden, 2024
948 kr
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In the past thirty years, it has become evident that the U.S. military faces widespread and ongoing challenges related to harassment and sexual assault. Despite prevention efforts, estimated sexual assaults are increasing, reporting is decreasing, and the problem persists across all branches of the …
The Criminalization of Violence Against Women
Comparative Perspectives
Av Heather Douglas, Kate Fitz-Gibbon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
872 kr
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Historically states have failed to seriously confront violence against women. In response, in many countries women's rights movements have called on the government to prioritize state intervention in cases involving violence between intimate partners, sexual harassment, rape, and sexual assault by …
From Madness to Mutiny
Why Mothers Are Running from the Family Courts – and What Can Be Done about It
Av Amy Neustein, Michael Lesher
Inbunden, 2026
386 kr
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This book examines the serious dysfunction of the nation's family courts--a dysfunction that too often results in the courts' failure to protect the people they were designed to help. Specifically, the authors chronicle cases in which mothers who believe their children have been sexually abused by …
Pathways to Prevention
Connecting Research and Policy to Reduce Risk for Child Maltreatment
Av Todd I. Herrenkohl, Bri Stormer
Inbunden, 2026
977 kr
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Pathways to Prevention: Connecting Research and Policy to Reduce Risk for Child Maltreatment foregrounds recommendations for preventing child maltreatment by examining historical and contemporary changes in U.S. social policy and by summarizing research on the causes and consequences of child …
Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence
Lessons From Efforts Worldwide
Av Rashmi Goel, Leigh Goodmark
Inbunden, 2015
1261 kr
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The United States has uncritically exported its law and policy on gender violence without regard to effectiveness or cultural context, and without asking what we might learn from efforts to combat gender violence in the rest of the world. This book asks that question. Comparative Perspectives on …
Men Who Batter
Av Nancy Nason-Clark, Barbara Fisher-Townsend
Inbunden, 2014
1470 kr
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Men who act abusively have their own story to tell, a journey that often begins in childhood, ripens in their teenage years, and takes them down paths they were hoping to never travel. Men Who Batter recounts the journey from the point of view of the men themselves. The men's accounts of their …
Childhood Victimization
Violence, Crime, and Abuse in the Lives of Young People
Häftad, 2014
748 kr
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Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population, and a substantial number face multiple, serious "poly-victimizations" during a single year. And despite the fact that the priority emphasis in academic research and government policy has traditionally gone to studying juvenile …
Child Victims and Restorative Justice
A Needs-Rights Model
Av Tali Gal
Inbunden, 2011
1380 kr
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Children are the group most likely to be victimized yet least likely to report the crimes against them. Because of their unique vulnerability, an elaborate set of protections tries to secure their safety at home, in school, and in the community, yet they often experience further trauma inside the …
Battered Women's Protective Strategies
Stronger Than You Know
Av Sherry Hamby
Inbunden, 2014
1641 kr
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This provocative book challenges the pervasive stereotypes that depict battered women as passive and presents an alternative strengths-based framework. Battered women are not passive and in denial; they act to protect themselves and their loved ones in many ways. Many women who experience abuse are …
When Men Murder Women
Av R. Emerson Dobash, Russell P. Dobash
Inbunden, 2015
1433 kr
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In the United States and Great Britain, 20-30% of all homicides involve the killing of a woman by a man, and it is far rarer when a woman is killed by another woman. Unfortunately, this is not a very well understood phenomenon. Most books on the topic discuss serial killings, but those only make up …
