Violence and abuse in society

Shawna Potter, singer for the band War On Women, has tackled sexism and harassment in lyrics and on stage for years.

Bringing together a decade's worth of AK Thompson's essays on the culture of revolt, Premonitions offers an engaged and engaging assessment of contemporary radical politics.

We can no longer ignore the fact that fascism is on the rise in the United States.

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

USsociety is notoriously complacent when it comes to the rise of fascist tendencies.

Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing.

"e;There was a time I believed prisons existed to rehabilitate people, to make our communities safer.

New Reflections on Violence for the twenty-first century.

This is a new addition to the popular Introduction to Coping with series of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy based self-help booklets.

Out now: The Land in Winter, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 The Optimists: in a world full of suffering, how can we have faith in humanity, or the future?

'I handed my school photograph to my mother.

When your child has been through an upsetting or stressful event, it can feel overwhelming.

This book shows how children's work can take on widely differing forms; and how it can both harm and benefit children.

The pressing need to break the silence on non-consensual sex among young people an issue shrouded by denial, underreporting and stigma is self-evident.

The reality of international relations and its academic study are still almost entirely constituted by men.

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

This volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organisations working in diverse regions and contexts to combat 'crimes of honour'.

The reality of international relations and its academic study are still almost entirely constituted by men.

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

This book shows how children's work can take on widely differing forms; and how it can both harm and benefit children.

The pressing need to break the silence on non-consensual sex among young people an issue shrouded by denial, underreporting and stigma is self-evident.

This volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organisations working in diverse regions and contexts to combat 'crimes of honour'.

Guns are everywhere: three quarters of a billion guns - from pistols to machine guns - exist in the world today.

Why do our night-time cities seem to mix pleasure with violence?

This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail.

This book looks at the theoretical issue of how a democracy can defend itself from those wishing to subvert or destroy it without being required to take measures that would impinge upon the basic principles of the democratic idea.

An adolescent girl is mocked when she takes a bath with her peers, because her genitals look like those of a boy.

An adolescent girl is mocked when she takes a bath with her peers, because her genitals look like those of a boy.

This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail.

In the last decades of the 20th century, successive British governments have regarded adolescent pregnancy and childbearing as a significant public health and social problem.

With the growth of parental employment, leave policy is at the centre of welfare state development and at the heart of countries' child and family policies.

The process of becoming an adult in contemporary times is fragmented and unequal, shaped by chance, choice and timing.

As the internet and new online technologies are becoming embedded in everyday life, there are increasing questions about their social implications and consequences.

Since 1997, child welfare services have been faced with new demands to engage fathers or develop father-inclusive services.

The viability, quality and sustainability of publicly supported early childhood education and care services is a lively issue in many countries, especially since the rights of the child imply equal access to provision for all young children.

Human development is about the growth of agency, which is developed in interaction with their parents and families but if parental agency is insufficient, agency in the form of child welfare will be required to fill the gaps.

This book documents the first five years of life of the children of the influential Millennium Cohort Study, which is tracking almost 19,000 babies born in 2000 and 2001 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Many policy and practice initiatives that aim to prevent social exclusion focus on children and young people.

Children and families are at the heart of social work all over the world, but, until now Nordic perspectives have been rare in the body of English-language child welfare literature.

Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs) was a major strategic effort by New Labour towards ending child poverty.

"e;Growing up with risk"e; provides a critical analysis of ways in which risk assessment and management - now a pervasive element of contemporary policy and professional practice - are defined and applied in policy, theory and practice in relation to children and young people.

Even after 20 years of children's rights and new thinking about childhood, children are still frequently seen as apolitical.

Teenage parenthood is recognised as a significant disadvantage in western industrialised nations.

How to respond to the needs of working parents has become a pressing social policy issue in contemporary Western Europe.

What is it like to be a child growing up in Britain these days?

Nordic countries are generally regarded as global welfare role models in terms of their image of being gender equal, child-friendly and culturally tolerant.

In a period of rapid social and economic change, labour markets are undergoing major transformations.

This ground-breaking book focuses on the experiences and perspectives of children and young people who care for a parent with HIV in the global North and South.

This innovative collection presents original theoretical analyses and previously unpublished empirical research on criminal victimisation.

many vulnerable children require one-to-one help from adults.