Violence and abuse in society Books

One Woman's Path to Liberation and Personal EmpowermentShahpar, a naïve and spirited thirteen year old in westernized Iran, agrees to marry her mother's music tutor, a man eleven years her senior. She comes of age with her innocence lost and dreams of a...

Good Christian girls are friendly. Good Christian girls obey authority. Good Christian girls are happy...Except when they're not...This is the story of my life: how I've had a beautiful upbringing, with a great family, but also how I've suffered abuse at...

Do you feel trapped between your love and your pain, long for peace but feel exhausted, belittled, and confused by a narcissist?If you're in an abusive relationship and either don't want to leave or are having difficulty doing so, Dating, Loving, and...

My name is Stephanie Josiah and I am a recovering people-pleaser, silent-sufferer, black sheep, scapegoat, golden child, initiator of resolution, agent of peace (at the expense of my health)...My name is Stephanie Josiah and I am recovering...

MELISSA had received a life sentence.She just wanted to die.Any hope of ever tasting freedom,lessened as time and memories started to crush her."How did I end up here?""What did I do to deserve this?"Would she ever have the freedom to...

Antisocial behaviour is becoming a universally accepted problem and one that dominates the political and popular imagination. By providing a new criminological framework for understanding the fear of crime, this book reposes the increasingly...

Bullying amongst young people is a serious and pervasive problem, and recent rapid advances in electronic communication technologies have provided even more tools for bullies to exploit. School Bullying and Mental Health collates current research...

There has been considerable research and authorship on child sexual abuse, however, much of this research has focused on adult perpetrators and child victims. Less attention has been paid to children's harmful sexual behaviour and the multitude of...

Today, in violence-torn regions across the globe, 20 million children have been uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and poverty. This is their story . . . and ours.In this powerful and unforgettable book--by turns painful, funny, terrifying,...

This volume is a thorough re-examination of civil unrest and discontent in the United States, particularly the intersection of democracy and violence.

Nostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement is an accessible primer on US militia movements, exploring their history from the Revolutionary War to the attempted insurrection of January 6th and beyond.

Sexual Offences Against Children in India examines the evolution of the law pertaining to sexual violence against children, the judicial decisions since the POCSO Act till date with respect to aspects of POCSO Act.

This book offers an academically rigorous examination of the biological, psychological, social and ecclesiastical processes that allowed sexual abuse in the Catholic Church to happen and then be covered up. The collected essays provide a means to better...

This book lifts the lid on the high pressured, complex world of women’s artistic gymnastics. By adopting a socio-cultural lens incorporating historical, sociological and psychological perspectives, it takes the reader through the story and workings...

Biblical studies is increasingly interdisciplinary and frequently focuses on how the Bible is read, received, and represented in the contemporary world, including in politics, news media, and popular culture. Rape Myths, the Bible and #MeToo illustrates...

This volume addresses the contested relationship between social stratification and social movements in three different ways: First, the authors address the relationship between social stratification and the emergence of protest mobilization. Second, the...

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison characteristics associated with violence perpetration and violent victimization among both prison inmates and staff.Prison violence is not a random process; rates of...

Feminist War Games? explores the critical intersections and collisions between feminist values and perceptions of war, by asking whether feminist values can be asserted as interventional approaches to the design, play, and analysis of games that focus on...

"Janice Butler is torn between being in relationship with a dangerous man and following the quiet voice of faith inside her heart that warns her of the tragedy ahead. The gripping story of her domestic violence experience is presented decision by...

"Confidence Unlocked" is based on a true story that weaves through accounts and incidents of one's journey to finding and fulfilling a purpose. This novel shares Kiawana Leaf's testimony of surviving domestic violence, the difficult journey of finding...

I don’t sexually abuse Black females is the spiritual affirmation that anchors this entire discussion. It empowers Brothers to prevent and rectify the sexual abuse experienced by Black Sisters—a not infrequent immoral, illegal practice in our...

As the economy constricts, it seems living with a chronic sense of fear and anxiety is the new normal for a growing number of urban females. Many females are susceptible to victimization by cumulative strands of violence in school, their communities,...

This book provides the first systematic overview of the theoretical, empirical, clinical, and police issues related to sexual murderers and murder. Bringing together leading researchers, theoreticians, and practitioners from across eight different...

The complexities of war are only truly known when you've experienced it.From 1992 to 1994, Jonathan Jones, an ex-serviceman of the Gloucestershire Regiment, found himself in the depths of chaos while providing humanitarian aid as a civilian truck driver...

Our Babies are Crying for Justice is a heart-wrenching true story of one of the eight children, a ten year old little girl, who made her horrific disclosure of her father's sexual and physical abuse towards her. And the mother of the eight children...

Katia Cooper's An Elf’s Journey is a tender story about an endearing elf who carried a heavy burden of shame that didn’t belong to her. As this precious elf’s buried memories and blocked emotions are stirred, she finds support...

At a young age, Natasha knew that God was going to use her in a special way. She didn’t know how He was going to use her, but she knew that God had a plan for her life. Unknown to Natasha, the devil was devising a plan to destroy her life.In a home...

The brave raw courage of the internationally bestselling authors featured in “A New Day Dawns: Breaking Up with Abuse” will give you strength. Ask new questions today, ask for new choices. What if the impossible was possible? Witness this...

NAÏVE:  Natural and unaffected; innocent; unsophisticated; ingenuous; having or showing a lack of experience, judgment, or information; absence of artificiality;HOPE:  To want and expect something to happen or be true;  grounds for...

Growing up within the Christian Church I learned about God’s order for marriage. Then when I grew up I met a Christian man who was taught the same standards of marriage as I was and we quickly began our new life together. However, when my husband...

A Dark Culture Revealed: A provocative and riveting true story of a prominent female Philadelphia attorney (who is a church girl) and the renowned bishop who dominated and abused her life through a laundry list of debauchery in plain sight, yet, the...

A business book to help workplaces to better understand the complexities of domestic violence and the impact on their business and the role the workplace plays, so employees no longer feel out of their depth. It will help employees better understand the...

Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the groundbreaking Testimony, this collection brings together the leading academics from a range of scholarly fields to explore the meaning, use, and value of testimony in law and politics, its relationship to...

Childhood Emotional Maltreatment, Attachment and Later Intimate Relationships addresses timely topics on the effect of emotional child abuse and neglect on the formation and maintenance of intimate relationships in adolescence and adulthood. This...

This book is an innovative collection of original research which analyzes the many varieties of post-conflict masculinity. Exploring topics such as physical disability and psychological trauma, and masculinity and sexuality in relation to the...

This book adopts a critical criminological approach to analyze the production, representation and role of crime in the emerging international order. It analyzes the role of power and its influence on the dynamics of criminalization at an international...

Hate crimes and lesser acts of bigotry and intolerance are seen to be constants in today's world. Since 1990, the federal government has published annual reports on hate crime incidents in the United States. While the reported numbers are...

Integrating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis, this volume advances our understanding of sexual violence in intimacy through the development of more nuanced and evidence-based conceptual frameworks.Sexual violence in intimacy is a global...

First published in 2004. Collective Political Violence is a concise, but thorough, interdisciplinary analysis of the many competing concepts, theories, and explanations of political conflict, including revolutions, civil wars, genocide, and terrorism. To...

Workers who meet or interact with customers and/or the public can face a risk of harm from workplace hazards due to the nature of their work. These hazards can include verbal and physical threats, even violence.This book is designed to help workers...

Gabriela Mendoza puts a face to the gut-wrenching tragedy of the 3 million women and children that are abducted every year and sold into human sex trafficking. MORE THAN RICE gives the reader an up close and personal look into this dark world of girls...

Dealing effectively with the problem of bullying in schools is now recognised as a major challenge for educators of young people. Successful interventions to stop, or even reduce, bullying in schools are difficult to achieve; however, the case for...

Intuitively aware there was more to eating disorders than food and weight, JL Keez was determined to understand why Anorexia Nervosa appeared at age 15. A gripping, revealing first- hand account of resilience and utter struggle, including debilitating...

Divine Decree is a poetry book about personal and universal experiences such as bullying, depression, suicide, illness, and society. Themes of racial and religious discrimination are also explored, as well as prominent issues in the modern and digital...