Since the 1980s, transitional justice mechanisms have been increasingly applied to account for mass atrocities and grave human rights violations throughout the world.
A powerful, heartbreaking, and redemptive account of a boy who endured a childhood of poverty and abuse in an American Southwest trailer park named Cloud 9.
Susie is the story of a girl born into an alcoholic family with a strong will to live and overcome the neglect and abuse of parents who had no idea of how to be parents.
By Degrees is a report from a five-year study following three successive groups of young people entering higher education from a background in local authority care.
Based on a study of over 100 9- to 11-year-old pupils from schools in deprived inner city areas in London and the North of England, this book explores children's views of religiously diverse schools and local communities.
In the book A Family in Fear a Story of Domestic Violence, Penny Everhart invites you to take a walk in her shoes in this compelling, oftentimes sad look into her twenty-eight years of living with a violent, abusive husband while raising four children.
Ultimate Betrayals: The Crisis of Violence Against Women examines multiple narratives and social constructs that continue to fuel patriarchy, misogyny, and violence against women.
Over the years immersing myself into the topic of Social Security, I began noticing that other authors focused on the past, or the history of our country's largest (and oldest) Entitlement program.
This book features eleven first-person stories of men from diverse class and racial backgrounds who have made a long-term commitment to end their physical and emotional abuse and controlling behaviors.
ACRLs Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2021Peru is classified as one of the deadliest countries in the world for environmental defenders, where activists face many forms of violence.
Specialized public resources for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) are increasingly common and diverse--from protection order courts and dedicated domestic violence units in police precincts to a vast network of community-based emergency shelters and counseling services.
Street children-abandoned or runaway children living on their own-can be found in cities all over the world, and their numbers are growing despite numerous international programs aimed at helping them.
Die tragedie wat op Valentynsdag 2013 Reeva Steenkamp se lewe kortgeknip en Oscar Pistorius se status as internasionale sportheld aan skerwe laat spat het, en die ongekende mediadekking van die sensasionele moordverhoor daarna, het verreikende gevolge op vele terreine gehad.
In the Life of the Honey Bee, two young girls, Em and Noel, cope with the destructive, fatal choices made by their mother during her life after her death.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of women become victims of sexual violence in conflict zones around the world; in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone, approximately 1,100 rapes are reported each month.
