Violence and abuse in society

A shockingly intimate look at the world of honor killings, as seen through the eyes of both the perpetrators and the victims.

Why are Latin American cities amongst the most violent in the world?

600 pages, 1177 images, with 32 contributorsThe first volume in the fourth edition of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment provides an overview of the signs and effects of physical abuse and neglect toward children.

This updated and expanded edition provides comprehensive coverage of the theory and practice of counselling survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA).

Darf man Menschen zu einer Impfung nötigen?

Drawn from real stories of rural child welfare practice, Rural Child Welfare Practice displays lessons learned from people working in the services field of child welfare.

Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States.

This book explores how local social organization and cohesion enable covert and overt nonviolent strategies.

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive look at the primary players, acts, motivations, and methods of the Army of God in their quest to make abortion illegal in the United States.

For many vulnerable children, the idea of talking to an adult about their experiences and feelings can be a daunting prospect.

Violence against women is a major problem in all countries, affecting women in every socio-economic group and at every life stage.

When two people form a relationship or marry, they begin to move towards one another with the expectation of closeness.

How can we treat survivors of sexual abuse more effectively?

Platzmangel, erschwerte Antragsabläufe, zeitliche Verzögerungen: Im Hilfesystem sind Frauen, die familiäre Gewalt erfahren und sich im Übergang ins junge Erwachsenenalter befinden mit einer schwierigen Versorgungsproblematik konfrontiert.

A fresh look at the response to domestic violence in the United States today.

This is a systematic study of how a congregational conflict involving allegations of sexual harassment and power abuse against a minister was seriously mishandled by church authorities.

Conventional research suggests that news coverage of terrorism is a tool of the terrorist to gain public support and recognition.

Through a rich variety of case studies, this book provides insight into the patient's needs and the chaplain's perspective, as well as discussions of spiritual assessments and spiritual care interventions.

Safeguarding Children Across Services brings together the latest evidence on safeguarding children from abuse and neglect.

Some children face traumatic or difficult events in their lives, and it's essential that they are helped to understand such events and given permission to talk.

Compulsive Sexual Behaviours offers a unique approach to the struggles people face with their out-of-control sexual behaviours.

Drawing on more than 150 in-depth interviews, Becoming Strong: Impoverished Women and the Struggle to Overcome Violence explores the diverse effects of trauma in the lives of homeless female victims of violence.

In this book, depression is explored as a form of loss that manifests itself as an inability to connect with others, to narrate one's own existence, to derive meaning from life experiences, and ultimately, to symbolically represent one's inner world.

Domestic violence experienced in childhood continues to have an enduring emotional impact into adulthood.

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

Kevin Denys Bonnycastle’s Stranger Rape is an in-depth study of the lives of fourteen men who raped women unknown to them.

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.

Describes how child sexual abuse can occur in formal organizations and how organization theory can advance understanding of this phenomenon.

Chronicling horrific events that brought the 20th century to witness the largest number of systematic slaughters of human beings in any century across history, this work goes beyond historic details and examines contemporary psychological means that leaders use to convince individuals to commit horrific acts in the name of a politial or military cause.

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UNION FOR THE HEADLINES, A TRIAL FOR THE TIMECelebrity romances have always captured the public's imagination, playing out like soap operas seized upon by fans and tabloids alike.

"e;The authors"e; choice of key elements results in a book that provides knowledge essential for beginning counselors to learn and for experienced counselors to reviewO.

In this book the author attempts to explain how to master one of the most difficult skills in psychotherapy: the art of listening.

That art should once have been markedwith this delicacy: always only oneof each thing made, so that your poemhas its one life on the sheetyou have chosen for it, or the snapshotof the birthday party, everythingin the room upended by the children'sjubilation, survives onlyin the single defended piece of glass.

Die Bundesregierung hat sich auf die Fahnen geschrieben, bis 2013 für bundesweit 35 % der Kinder im Alter unter 3 Jahren Betreuungsplätze in Tageseinrichtungen und in Kindertagespflege zu schaffen.

Examine the major advances in sexual offender treatment over the last decade and promising new concepts in treatment, supervision, and research Sex Offender Treatment: Accomplishments, Challenges, and Future Directions points the way toward humane, dignified, effective treatment regimes for sexual offenders.

For Elena del Rio, extreme cinema is not only qualitatively different from the representations of violence we encounter in popular, mainstream cinema; it also constitutes a critique of the socio-moral system that produces (in every sense of the word) such violence.

"e;One of the year's most important books, a gripping meticulously reported account of the rise of one of the world's most notorious street gangs.

What constitutes real recovery for adult victims of abuse?

Parents who neglect children present considerable challenges to child welfare professionals, and are often resistant to change.

With increasing urban population density, conflicts in cities erupt more frequently and violently.

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 authoritative, balanced, and accessible reference resource provides readers with a wide-ranging survey of capital punishment in America, including its history, its legal and cultural foundations, and racial and economic factors in its application.

Drawing on one of the most comprehensive and representative studies of school violence ever conducted, Benbenishty and Astor explore and differentiate the many manifestations of victimization in schools, providing a new model for understanding school violence in context.

Im linken Milieu kommt es seit Jahrzehnten zu systematischem Kindesmissbrauch.

Taking on a still-controversial topic, a diverse group of experts, including victims and clergy, offers reflections on the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, examining what the church has done-and what it still needs to do-to protect children.