Violence and abuse in society

From the Trappist monk and author of The Seven Storey Mountain, reflections on the way to moral and social change in a violent world.

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The abuse of women and children transcends geographical boundaries as well as economic, cultural, religious, political, and social divisions.

In the United States, alcoholism leads to 100,000 unnecessary deaths per year.

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In the popular misconception fostered by blockbuster action movies and best-selling thrillers--not to mention conventional explanations by social scientists--violence is easy under certain conditions, like poverty, racial or ideological hatreds, or family pathologies.

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Growing up in a quiet, middle-class suburb outside of Amsterdam, childhood best friends Anna and Olivia had their whole lives ahead of them.

Eleven-year-old Leanne is out of control.

When foster carer Maggie Hartley meets Sean and Sheila, they're facing every parent's worst nightmare.

When sixteen-year-old Jess arrives on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep with her newborn son Jimmy, she has nowhere else to go.

The Sunday Times BestsellerAt just ten years old, Kirsty has already suffered a lifetime of heartache and suffering.

What if your husband wanted you dead.

Abused, afraid and alone.

When Leslie met her husband Conor she felt she'd found the man of her dreams.

My brother Patrick remembers my first beating, of which I assume I was completely unaware.

'In many ways we were an ordinary family: mum, dad, two kids, three dogs, one rabbit, two guinea pigs.

'The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old.

Eerie and menacing, timely and moving, Impossible Causes is an unputdownable novel that examines the consequences of silence kept at young women's expense.

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Orcas (or killer whales) are one of the planet's supreme predators.

The remarkable memoir of healing and forgiveness from Julie Chimes, who survived a horrific stabbing on her own drivewayIn 1986, Julie Chimes allowed an emotionally distressed acquaintance to wait in her cottage for Julie's doctor boyfriend to return.

The remarkable story of David Kennedy's crusade to combat America's plague of gang- and drug-related violence - with methods that have been astonishingly effective across the country.

A harrowing and moving memoir about childhood and coming to terms with the past'Simple yet shocking .

An unforgettable true story of friendship, loyalty, violence and revenge, set against the unmistakable backdrop of New York City.

I warn society against the child who has been hurt Peter Tyrrell A tormented childhood in Letterfrack industrial school with the Christian Brothers left an enduring mark on Peter Tyrrell.

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When Ann Kenny was four years old her foster mother hit her across the face with a fireplace shovel.

Leaving his abusive Irish boarding school after eight long years, Patrick Touher thought his troubles were over.

Given away by her mother at five months old, raped on the day of her first communion at age seven - when Celine Roberts was told 'No one wants you', she believed it.

Matt Lowe's childhood was outwardly idyllic.

Sue Martin was not three years old when she began life at her first children's home: a home that could at best be described as cold and regimented; at worst, torturous and terrifying.

As a young boy, Alexander Sinclair was the target of his mother's irrational hatred.

It is the summer of 1976, the hottest summer on record.

In 1977 Eamonn Cooke was a household name in Ireland.

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Unforgivable is the shocking real-life story of suffering and survival from child abuse victim Collette Elliott.

Sophie Young tells her shocking true story in Please Will Someone Help Me?

The heartbreaking but inspiring true story of a childhood of abuse, and finding a way out of the darkness.

This edited volume explores the wide range of practice situations across the human services in which issues loss and grief are likely to be important.

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Since German reunification in 1990, there has been widespread concern about marginalized young people who, faced with bleak prospects for their future, have embraced increasingly violent forms of racist nationalism that glorify the country's Nazi past.

In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination.

How security procedures could be positive, safe, and effectiveThe inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.

How the love and labor of parents have changed our understanding of autismAutism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation.

Genocide, mass murder, massacres.