Violence and abuse in society

If democracy liberates individuals from their inherited bonds, what can reunite them into a sovereign people?

This important text shows how child development theory applies to professionals' working practice.

Dachau and the SS studies the concentration camp guards at Dachau, the first SS concentration camp and a national 'school' of violence for its concentration camp personnel.

A core issue for professionals responsible for addressing sexual abuse is how to correctly identify cases.

A practical guide to learning and using EMDR!

What do medieval knights, suicide bombers and "e;victimhood culture"e; have in common?

On average, a quarter of a million children in the United States enter foster care every year.

The revised edition of this award-winning book offers thirty-three Neuro Updates, which provide evidence-based data to help you recognize and explain the deeply transformational nature of the work.

Killing as punishment in the USA, whether ordained by lynch mob or by the courts, reflects a paradox of the American nation: liberal, pluralistic, yet prone to lethal violence.

Cindy Crabb provides a DIY tour of the promise and perils of sexual relationships in Learning Good Consent.

This Element features the framework of preventive service delivery systems for breaking the cycle of problems in childhood.

Help your Spanish-speaking clients break the pattern of abuse!

660 pages, 95 images, 53 contributorsSexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span: A Clinical Guide offers a broad array of information for sexual assault intervention, from the fundamentals of physical evaluation and investigation to in-depth guides to the unique challenges presented by cases of sexual assault.

Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support.

Providing an authoritative overview of the growing phenomena of child to parent violence - a feature in the daily life of increasing numbers of families - this book outlines what we know about it, what is effective in addressing it, and outlines a proven model for intervention.

The first book to expose how the Catholic Church systematically covers up scandal by moving abusers across borders.

A practical tool for the assessment of children and their families, this guide enables professionals to make informed decisions about child protection issues.

The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose.

Human Insecurity is concerned with our refusal to confront the millions of avoidable deaths of women and children each year.

In Legal Spectatorship Kelli Moore traces the political origins of the concept of domestic violence through visual culture in the United States.

What happens to looked-after children in the longer term?

Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution examines what is currently at stake_culturally, politically, and educationally_in contemporary global capitalist society.

In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the present we are experiencing the most peaceful time in human history.

Get up-to-date information on children's and parent's rightsChildren have a basic human right to be free of abuse and maltreatment.

An in-depth understanding of the everyday experiences and perspectives of maltreated children and their substitute caregivers and teachers in Japan.

A meticulously researched inside look at child sexual abuse by clergy, this exhaustive, hard-hitting analysis weaves together interviews with abusive priests and church historical and administrative details to propose a new way of thinking about clerical sexual offenders.

Nine killed in Charleston church shooting.

One out of every four women in the United States will experience some form of domestic violence or abuse in her lifetime.

Child protection and family workers can complete training without learning about how to work with domestic abuse perpetrators - but intervening at an early stage can make a real difference to increasing family safety.

Four bizarre true crime stories about serial killers, murder sprees, sideshows, and church pulpits in one sensational volume.

A major source for the BBC drama The ReckoningWinner of the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize and the 2015 CWA Non-Fiction DaggerShortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the James Tait Black PrizeDan Davies has spent more than a decade on a quest to find the real Jimmy Savile, and interviewed him extensively over a period of seven years before his death.

When we think of child abuse, we imagine several different forms of harmful parenting and injuries to children.

Today, in violence-torn regions across the globe, 20 million children have been uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and poverty.

In this book, Slobogin and Fondacaro present their vision for a new juvenile justice system, founded on the evidence at hand and promoting the principles of rehabilitation and reintegration into society.

Finalist, 2022 Lambda Literary Awards (Trans-Non-fiction Category)Winner, of the 2022 AASECT Book Awards (Book for Sexuality Professionals)Winner of the 2023 SSTAR Consumer Book Award!

Alternatives to Domestic Violence, fifth edition, is an interactive treatment workbook designed for use with a wide variety of accepted curricula for intimate partner violence intervention programs.

When a military coup in Ghana leads to the abrupt closure of Lally Pia's medical school, she is left stranded there, thousands of miles away from her family in California, with no educational prospects or money.

This book explores the various psychosocial, sociocultural, and contextual factors that affect the sexual health of Black students who attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and how this environment can help develop strategies to improve sexual health outcomes for its students.

This book is written for students and clinicians who want to learn about adolescent behavioral health and psychosocial development.

This book is a comprehensive guide to recognizing and dealing with domestic abuse and violence.

464 pages, 15 images, 41 contributors

STM Learning’s all-new reference, Research and Practices in Child Maltreatment Prevention, begins with a broad and comprehensive first volume — Definitions of Abuse and Prevention.

This book examines the controversies surrounding gun control, which are less about whether it "e;works"e; and more about whether the nation should prioritize traditional values of rugged independence or newer values of communitarian interdependence.

The Nobel Prize winner reflects on living "e;in a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures.

Practitioners and managers in child protection often struggle to focus on the needs of children and families in the face of ever-expanding bureaucracy.

Two leading experts in terrorism provide "e;smart, granular analysis"e; of the group's brutally effective strategy, tactics, and ideology (Washington Post).

In The Victimization of Women, Michelle Meloy and Susan Miller present a balanced and comprehensive summary of the most significant research on the victimizations, violence, and victim politics that disproportionately affect women.