Violence and abuse in society

Gegenwärtig werden verstärkt tödliche Fälle von Kindesmisshandlung medial aufgegriffen und sensationsheischend aufbereitet.

Gun Violence In American Society: Crime, Justice, and Public Policy provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary investigation into one of society's major social, public health and political concerns-death, injury, and destruction from the use of firearms.

Literature in the child abuse and child protection arena has tended to adopt either a practice or legal perspective.

From the outside, Vanya's childhood looked idyllic.

Workplace violence has emerged as a growing concern in today's interdependent political economy, and increasing attention is being paid to the phenomenon both by business and in the academic world to identifying its causes and to devise strategies to prevent it.

Institutional Abuse brings together a number of different research studies and accounts of institutional abuse from leading academics and researchers.

60 bis 100 Prozent aller fremduntergebrachten Jugendlichen erfüllen die Diagnosekriterien für mindestens eine psychische Störung.

What is the value of telling the truth?

Internationally recognized as the gold standard in providing services to children with special needs and their family members, family-centred practice has developed substantially over the past two decades.

It is difficult to imagine how orphan asylums and children's homes - often depicted as places where abuse, deprivation, and cruelty were commonplace - once presented a viable solution to child neglect.

This Element explores differences across religious systems in relation to the complex history of religion and violence.

Originally published in 1999, the author addresses the American tragedy of some two million youth running away from home each year.

The psycho-social needs of victims of rape and sexual assault are increasingly recognised and there is a need for a critical synthesis of knowledge and practice to support the development of training and best practice in the mental health and sexual health professions.

There is a contradiction at the heart of digital media.

This book provides an introduction to the work of Norbert Elias.

Motherhood after Incarceration: Community Reintegration for Mothers in the Criminal Legal System explores the relationships of women with their children immediately after periods of incarceration.

Torn by ongoing civil and military violence, Africa presents a challenge to scholars interested in the root causes of conflict.

The decision whether or not to reunify a child in care with their birth family is one of the most serious taken by children's services, and often involves considerable risk.

This important and timely reference work examines violence against women and gender-based discrimination around the world, providing a global perspective on why this kind of oppression is still occurring in the 21st century.

A thorough and timely investigation of both well-established and emerging crime and punishment issues, this book provides readers with compelling examples of how different countries around the world confront these problems.

This book attempts to uncover school violence in different contexts by presenting studies of expert practitioners, which highlight concepts, risk factors, prevention mechanisms and challenges faced by concerned individuals in the hope of developing solutions to the occurrence of violence involving school children.

Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of black rape by examining actual cases of black-on-white rape throughout the nineteenth century.

Recent debates surrounding children in State care, parental rights, and abuse in Ireland's industrial schools, concern issues that are rooted in the historical record.

The multifaceted construct of "e;school violence"e; includes a wide variety of acts, such as physical assault and battery, physical aggression, noncontact aggression (e.

The Care of the Witness explores the historical shifts in the crises of witnessing to genocide, war, and disaster and their contribution to nongovernmental politics.

Revealing Portugal's counterinsurgent spying on Muslims during Mozambique's liberation struggle, this book uses archival and field work to study Muslim responses to counterinsurgency and armed nationalism that led to Mozambique's freedom from colonial rule.

This collection aims to fill in the deep gaps of vital contributions that have been erased from the sexuality field, illuminating the historical and current work, strategies, solutions, and thoughts from sexologists that have been excluded until now.

Aggression and violence directed towards staff in the caring services is a growing problem, and one that is receiving increasing attention.

By looking at the problem of complicity in political violence from a social versus a legal perspective, The Politics of Conflict offers readers new insight into the ways in which violence operates.

Founded in 1963, Dartington Social Research Unit conducts scientific research into child development within the context of children?

Intimate partner violence is a complex, ugly, fear-inducing reality for large numbers of women around the world.

PARIS: A MILLION MEANINGS IN A SINGLE NAME Heiress.

Promoting Youth Sexual Health, written for preventionists and interventionists who work with children and adolescents across home, school, or community settings, offers guidance on how to promote sexual health among youth.

Often examined separately, this timely volume provides a detailed exploration of the nexus between family violence and sexual offending.

Exposing the powerful contradictions between empowering rights and legal rites By investigating the harms routinely experienced by the victims and survivors of domestic violence, both inside and outside of law, Everyday Harm studies the limits of what domestic violence law can--and cannot--accomplish.

Now in its third edition, It's My Life Now is a guide for survivors who have left an abusive relationship.

Understanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma offers clinicians a new framework for understanding the symptoms and coping mechanisms displayed by survivors of childhood abuse.

';The play's two hours fly by as if you've barely taken a breath.

With Bridging Worlds, you will learn to uncover the roots of teenage problems - the causes behind symptoms such as self-destructiveness, anger, recklessness, and violence.

This volume introduces the concept of Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress (PITS), a form of PTSD symptoms caused not by traditionally expected roles, such as being a victim or rescuer in trauma, but by being an active participant in causing trauma.

Is nonviolence irresponsible?

A comprehensive look at the many types of male and female sex offenders who victimize children, adolescents, and adultsComprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families presents practitioners, professionals, and policymakers with effective, user-friendly practice methods for working with all types of sex offenders.

Historically delineates the problems of genocide as a concept in relation to rival categories of mass violence.

Sexual exploitation and abuse by United Nations (UN) peacekeepers is not an isolated or recent problem, but it has been present in almost every peacekeeping operation.

Despite 50 years of activism, legal changes, and crisis service provision, there is no evidence to suggest any widespread decrease in rates of gender violence in the U.

Research on gender, sex, and crime today remains focused on topics that have been a mainstay of the field for several decades, but it has also recently expanded to include studies from a variety of disciplines, a growing number of countries, and on a wider range of crimes.

Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world.

A new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross.

This book has been replaced by Social Work Practice with Children, Fourth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-3755-6.