Violence and abuse in 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.

Premio Violeta 2014 al proyecto Speak Out for Support (SOS-Vics) por su compromiso internacional contra la violencia de género.

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.

Modern Slavery: A Reference Handbook provides a thorough treatment of the evolving scope, nature, and contexts of modern slavery and a discussion of prevention and abolition efforts in an accessible format for high school and college readers.

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.

Obwohl die Zahl an unbegleiteten minderjährigen Flüchtlingen in den letzten Jahren die Einrichtungen und Dienste der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe vor völlig neue Herausforderungen stellte, liegen bisher noch keine systematischen, bundesweiten Aussagen zu den betroffenen jungen Menschen, den Prozessen während der Hilfe und deren Wirksamkeit vor.

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

Because women are more likely to seek professional help, and because they are more likely to be the victims of abuse by people in positions of power, women who do seek professional assistance may end up being victims of sexual exploitation by the very people from whom they seek help.

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.

Youth residential mental health care is often a last resort after a long time searching for help.

In cases where minimal or no physical evidence exists, behavioral evidence may be all that investigators have available to help them focus the investigation.

Couples and families worldwide have a constant electronic connection to others, a fact that is influencing the concerns and issues they bring to therapy.

In 2009, Chicago spent millions of dollars to create programs to prevent gang violence in some of its most disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Whether called black sheep, sociopaths, con men, or misfits, some men break all the rules.

The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence.

Davey Sommers should've ended up in a nice job, with a nice wife, living in a nice house.

This volume deals with the contexts of violence.

When men are abused, everybody suffers.

More than any other advanced industrial democracy, the United States is besieged by firearms violence.

Steigende Ausgaben für Hilfen zur Erziehung (HzE) einerseits, mitunter zu spätes Eingreifen in Kinderschutzfällen anderseits: Jugendämter, insbesondere ihre Allgemeinen Sozialen Dienste (ASD), stehen häufig in der öffentlichen Kritik.

Work with sexually exploited young people can be rewarding yet difficult.

Mehr Beteiligung von jungen Menschen, Eltern und Familien – mit diesem Ziel stärkt das im Jahr 2021 verabschiedete Kinder- und Jugendstärkungsgesetz (KJSG) die Beratungs-, Beschwerde- und Beteiligungsrechte von Adressat*innen in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe.

This Element explores violence and nonviolence in Christianity.

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A comprehensive study of the dysfunctional thinking that results in destructive behavior, as well as suggestions for remedying these problems.