Violence and abuse in society

Understanding Looked After Children is an accessible guide to understanding the mental health needs of children in foster care and the role of foster carers and support networks in helping these children.

In popular perception cultural differences or ethnic affiliation are factors that cause conflict or political fragmentation although this is not borne out by historical evidence.

LoveSex and Relationships introduces a pleasure-focused rather than reproductive model of sex, exploring how our brains, minds, bodies and emotions interact to create our experience of sexuality.

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

This fascinating volume investigates how the concept of soul is connected to BDSM and kink, exploring the world of alternative sexualities through the psychology of C.

Stopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education provides a unique insight into how gender-based violence at universities is impacting students and staff and outlines the path toward tangible changes that can prevent it.

Here is a disguised but tragically accurate account of a 7-year-old boy who was repeatedly victimized by two uncles who penetrated him, required him under threat of violence to act upon them, and forced him to have sexual contact with his sister for their entertainment.

Mental health specialists and researchers contend that the development of resilience in youth is facilitated at several levels.

Although most discussions of the Guatemalan "e;revolution"e; of 1944-54 focus on international and national politics, Revolution in the Countryside presents a more complex and integrated picture of this decade.

This book provides a thorough account of victimisation across the social spectrum of class, race, age and gender.

This book takes a full 360 macro to micro approach to understanding the problems presented by opioids.

All too often in conflict situations, rape is referred to as a 'weapon of war', a term presented as self-explanatory through its implied storyline of gender and warring.

Trauma-Sensitive Schools: The Importance of Instilling Grit, Determination, and Resilience is written with the consideration of the important and effective role educators and other staff who work with children every day can have on children of trauma.

This volume is the first major exploration of the issues relevant to young people who are affected by sexual exploitation and trafficking from a variety of critical perspectives.

Real Life Heroes: Toolkit for Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Families, Second Edition is an organized and easy-to-use reference for practitioners providing therapy to children and caregivers with traumatic stress.

"e;Consent is not the absence of 'NO', it is an enthusiastic YES!

Intended for students as well as scholars of religion and violence, Belief and Bloodshed discusses how the relationship between religion and violence is not unique to a post-9/11 world-it has existed throughout all of recorded history and culture.

This clinician's workbook is designed to accompany and supplement the main volume Ending Spouse/Partner Abuse.

Although Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) has been a recognized autistic profile in the UK for some time, awareness is still growing in America.

This book critically analyzes both the negative and positive impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic, focusing on changes in families, gender developments, and the evolution of social inequality structures.

Victims' Experiences of The Criminal Justice Response to Domestic Abuse: Beyond GlassWalls provides a unique perspective on how victims of domestic abuse experience the justice process.

This fully revised volume provides a rigorous assessment of the latest research relating to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, along with the practical and policy implications of the findings.

With its unique human-rights perspective on the study of childhood victimization and an innovative, child-inclusive restorative justice model, this book promises to be a touchstone for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers concerned with children's well-being in the aftermath of crime and violence.

In Mexico and across other parts of Latin America local Indigenous peoples have built community policing groups as a means of protection where the state has limited control over, and even complicity in, crime and violence.

In the light of the complex demographic shifts associated with late modernity and the impetus of neo-liberal politics, childhood continues all the more to operate as a repository for the articulation of diverse social and cultural anxieties.

Bringing together top scholars in the field, Universality and Social Policy in Canada provides an overview of the universality principle in social welfare.

Child neglect has been characterized over the past century as a problem of deficient care of children by mothers.

In 1971, Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs.

No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world.

"e;I found this book to be informative, well-researched, and well-thought out.

A reissue of Spalding Gray's masterpiece.

Tatort Beziehung: Jede vierte Frau erlebt Gewalt in der Partnerschaft.

Rural Victims of Crime offers a pioneering sustained assessment of 'the rural victim'.

Investigation of the causes of twentieth-century mass violence worldwide beyond terms such as ''genocide'' and ''ethnic cleansing''.

First published in 1976, Psychopath is a study of Patrick Mackay who, in 1974 - with a string of muggings and killings behind him - was on trial for murder and was imprisoned in November 1975.

The dark double life of Ellen Boehm, the mother who murdered her two sons—and nearly killed her daughter.

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 Gender of Sexuality serves as a fun and informative guide on how to approach the topics of gender and sexuality-two areas fraught with stereotypes and misinformation.

This Handbook provides a clear introduction to the theoretical debates surrounding the topic of domestic violence, and also offers practical advice on possible interventions.

Gewalt ist ein aktueller Gegenstand der Erziehungswissenschaft und stellt zugleich ein bedeutsames Thema der erziehungswissenschaftlichen Geschlechterforschung dar.

Working with Families Experiencing Vulnerability provides a comprehensive guide to family-centred practice for social workers.

Caught in the Crossfire presents a multifaceted explanation of why people participate in something as dangerous and uncertain as a revolutionary movement.

This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding.

Fatherhood is in transition and being challenged by often contradictory forces: societal mandates to be both an active father and provider, men's own wish to be more involved with their children, and the institutional arrangements in which fathers work and live.

Winner of the 2023 SSTAR Consumer Book Award!

In this compelling tale, Judy Foreman reveals the terror she felt every night as a girl as she lay in bed frozen in dread, listening for her father’s footsteps coming down the hall.

Das SGB VIII feiert Geburtstag - 1990 wurde die Kritik an der Eingriffsorientierung des ehemaligen Jugendhilferechts aufgenommen und ein Angebots- und Leistungsgesetz für Kinder, Jugendliche und ihre Eltern geschaffen, das auf Unterstützung und Hilfsangebote setzt.

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

Across government bodies, from local to federal, legislative responses to mass gun violence in the new millennium have varied greatly.