Violence and abuse in society

School Safety: True Stories and Solutions from School Leaders is a compilation of best practices on school safety, shared by current and former school administrators and school leaders.

This ethnographic research investigates how adolescents use writing.

How evangelical businessmen in the 1930s and 1940s joined their religious and business lives.

Gewalt gegen Frauen ist ein alltägliches Phänomen, auch wenn sie nur selten öffentlich wird.

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Child Abuse Quick Reference 2e is designed to provide busy practitioners with the information required to rapidly diagnose child maltreatment and recognize children at high risk for any type of abuse—from physical manifestations such as child head trauma to sexual and psychological forms—and neglect.

The sexual abuse of children is an area of increasing concern to social services agencies, lawmakers, and the general public.

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.

The concept of jihad holds a prominent place in Islamic thought and history.

Currently enrolling approximately 900,000 poor children each year, Head Start has served 25 million children and their families since it was established 44 years ago.

Violence and Maltreatment in Intimate Relationships describes the magnitude, risk factors, and consequences of intimate violence.

The Maoist insurgency in Nepal lasted from 1996 to 2006, and at the pinnacle of their armed success the Maoists controlled much of the countryside.

This accessible book uses case studies to explore issues around intimacy, sexual function and sexual development over the lifespan, introducing applied principles and practices when working with sexuality-related issues.

Within a book widely touted as the path to peace, violence has incongruously been central to the Bible and how it is used.

In this unique work directed at social workers, Gerald A.

As the youth gang phenomenon becomes an important and sensitive public issue, communities from Los Angeles to Rio, Cape Town to London are facing the reality of what such violent groups mean for their children and young people.

Defending pacifism against the charge that it is na vely utopian, Transformative Pacifism offers a critical theory of the existing world order, and points in the direction of concrete ethical and political action.

Placing the experiences of men at the heart of this book, Sarah Van Gogh outlines an integrative approach to effective therapeutic treatment of male sexual abuse.

Ecofeminism is for those who desire to improve their understanding of the current crises of poverty, environmental destruction, violence, and human rights abuses, and their causes.

This book answers two basic but under-appreciated questions: first, how does the American criminal justice system address a defendant's family status?

While forced marriage and 'honour-based' violence attract media attention, little is known about the issues and experiences of South Asian women and children who are affected by gendered violence.

How to weigh genetic factors while choosing the best psychosocial interventions Psychosocial Interventions for Genetically Influenced Problems in Childhood and Adolescence explores empirically supported psychosocial interventions in light of our current understanding of the genome.

How does the media shape the way we think about child sexual abuse?

After family violence, very young children and babies benefit from child-led therapy, but how do you achieve this?

Fried and Sosland bring their combined experiences together to present a blueprint to reduce the pain, rage and revenge cycle of bullying.

Rolene Miller registered Mosaic, Training, Service and Healing Centre to empower abused women, and like a Mosaic ,to put the broken pieces of their lives together and make their lives more beautiful,, Womandla!

This volume in Biblical Theology for Life series dives deeply into the topic of human violence.

Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice, Second Edition, offers readers an overview of domestic violence and its effects on society and includes helpful measures to curtail its rapid growth and widespread harm.

"e;I'd die without my Blackberry"e; - one young person's comment sums up a generation of young people who are increasingly living their daily lives through their phones and the internet.

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

Family Support introduces and explores the state of the art in preventative social work with children and young people.

Stereotypes are dangerous, especially when they are used by demagogues.

A rigourous analysis of context in transitional justice, examining the successes and failures of truth and reconciliation commissions in post-conflict settings.

A Brookings Institution Press and Governance Institute publicationA nation of great resources, the United States is confronted all too often with headlines about shootings in schools and with the unsettling reality that homicide rates for juveniles far exceed that of other industrialized nations.

Walter Rodney claimed developing countries were heirs to uneven development and ethnic disequilibrium, including continued forms of oppression from the capitalist countries and their own leaders.

Indien, eine bewundernswerte Demokratie?

This text explores scholarship, practice, and advocacy for Black women's pursuit of bodily autonomy, sexual freedom, and pleasure.

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

La bulle du hockey professionnel abrite depuis longtemps des hommes aux comportements misogynes, homophobes et racistes.

Disorganized attachment is the most extreme form of insecure attachment.

"e;A welcome contribution not only towards the development of advocacy policy and practice with children and young people across the UK and further afield but also towards the wider field of furthering children and young people's participation, individually and collectively in decisions affecting them.

Baby Bear lives in a home with the Big Bears, and loves to chase butterflies and make mud pies - they make Baby Bear's tummy fill with sunshine.

Einer zunehmenden Vielfalt von Elternschaft und Familie auch im Zuge neuer Möglichkeiten in der Reproduktionsmedizin stehen verfestigte Rollenvorstellungen und tradierte gesellschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen gegenüber.

"e;I Never Told Anyone This Before"e; is the first book that will enable you to work in an ethical, effective manner, based on empirically tested guidelines, with clients who disclose memories of sexual abuse You'll find that these guidelines result in the creation of a helping environment conducive to the sharing of traumatic re-collections.

Media technologies do not simply record or represent trauma but transform trauma into a cultural form that is multifariously commodified in different contexts.

The fear many women have for their physical safety when out in public is often heightened for trans women of color.

There are tremendous benefits to discussing the subject of sexual and emotional pleasure with clients, and this book addresses the challenges and misconceptions of doing just that.

Providing an evidence-based understanding of the causes and consequences of violence against children, experts in the field examine the best practices used to help protect children from violence.

Horrific Traumata shares the stories of persons whose meaning, hope, and faith were ripped from them by others or traumatic events and who live with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.