Violence and abuse in society Books

This book addresses the question of why police investigations continue to fail most rape victim-survivors and puts forward a framework for what policing can do to change this.

This book compares the life courses of forced migrants in two of the world's most important transit countries: Turkey and Mexico. It examines the local, regional, and global contexts of their experiences, trajectories, and biographical projects, caught...

The volume addresses pertinent need to examine childhood trauma revolved around nuanced themes of war, sexual abuse, and disability.

This volume addresses the specific experiences and trajectories of forced migrants in Turkey in the context of local and national contexts and the future of EU-Turkey relations, presenting the demographics of forced migrants, the future plans of...

A young woman's harrowing journey across state lines to escape an endless cycle of abuse. Raised in a comfortable middle class neighborhood in America's Midwest, Kerry's seduction by a master manipulator plunges her into a world of deceit and violence...

MAMA AIN'T TEACH ME THAT A true story about a little girl looking for love in all the wrong places... The age-old question adults ask children is, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Like most children, Renée gazed upward and rattled off the top...

When two lives collide . . .This groundbreaking tour de force presents the gripping true account of one of America's most notorious serial rapists and the tough female journalist assigned to cover his case.Following an exhaustive manhunt and his capture...

When Adoption Fails: Abuse, Autism, and the Search for My Identity is the story of Theresa Werba, an undiagnosed autistic adoptee who endured an abusive adoptive home, several identity changes, a disinheritance, and the discovery of her biological mother...

ESTE LIBRO BRINDA PUNTOS DE VISTA BÍBLICOS Y CIENTIFICOS BIEN DOCUMENTADOS SOBRE EL ABUSOEn el abuso, en sus diferentes formas (físico, sexual, verbal, espiritual, y por negligencia), reduce las emociones, asesina el valor propio, paraliza la mente e...

Are you or your child facing the distressing reality of cyberbullying? In a world driven by digital interactions, it's crucial to arm yourself with the knowledge and tools necessary to combat online abuse. Introducing "The Cyberbully Self-Defense...

Ostracized is a book covering the abuse sustained in a particular family. Juss Shy, the author, goes in great detail telling how people's lives are impacted based upon certain types of abuse inflicted upon them from family members and other people.

How do we prevent the next school shooting? By knowing the warning signs.Dr. Langman's timely book presents practical, research-based guidance on anticipating and preventing mass attacks. Warning Signs is for all members of a school community, including...

The 1960's were a turbulent time in our history.  Our leaders were assassinated, America was bogged down in Vietnam, casualty numbers fought for space with Anti-War and Civil Rights movements on the front pages of every newspaper and for the...

Child protection is one of the most high profile and challenging areas of social work, as well as one where children's lives and family life are seen to be at stake. Vital as child protection work is, this book argues that there is a pressing need for...

In the USA, law, policy, policing, and prevention work addressing domestic and intimate partner violence is created and enacted based on a violence model. This book takes a critical look at these misconceived notions and sheds light on multiple...

Spanking Is a Global Phenomenon looks at this traditional method of corporal punishment from a deep perspective, placing it in its historical context, and from a wide point of view, comparing changing attitudes across cultures and generations. The result...

The author shares from life and study insights on issues that confront many in the African American community and documents the answer to spiritual complexities to help others travelling the same road. The Christian life can be challenging for any...

This edited collection explores the agency of women who do violence and have violence done to them. It contributes to the philosophical and theoretical debate, as well as offering practical, social and political responses to the issues examined...

Most people with children would tell you that parenting is the most difficult job they've ever had. What if it didn't have to be either of those things, difficult or a job? Each of the 19 authors (Jennifer Chabot, Sadie Lake, Jennifer Cramer Windsor,...

‘It began with fluttering excitement, joy and a world full of possibilities. There was a slow chiselling away of me. I felt disbelief and foggy confusion, before the ugly reality of abuse dawned on me.’How do you live through the shattering...

Black Indian, searing and raw, is Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Alice Walker's The Color Purple meets Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony-only, this isn't fiction. Beautifully rendered and rippling with family dysfunction, secrets, deaths, alcoholism, and...

Women's shelters and safe houses were a good first step, but they only address part of the problem. Learn what else must be done to address the problem of domestic violence! Domestic Violence Offenders presents recent research, current interventions, and...

Three generations of women born from the same ancestral line; yet separated by vastly different and inequitable life experiences.  Beverley, the youngest, was raised in the U.S. during the late 40’s and 50’s in a relatively stable...

An accident in the middle of Sydney, Australia, cause six women to became entangled in the outcome. Each woman's reaction brings forth changes, as past secrets explain their current behaviours. Eventually their lives change irrevocably. Several...

The concept of critical criminology - that crime and the present-day processes of criminalization are rooted in the core structures of society - is of more relevance today than it has been at any other time.Written by an internationally renowned scholar,...

This book places youth violence within a Routine Activity Ecological Framework. Youth violence, specifically youth exposure to community violence and youth perpetration of violent behaviors, occur within various contexts. Ahlin and Antunes situate their...

The importance of youth's substantive participation for the realization of inclusive reconciliation practices has rarely been acknowledged. Agency and Ownership in Reconciliation provides a comprehensive, nuanced, and empirical account of the...

A teenager in the 1970s, Gwen Wilson grew up in Western Sydney. It was a tough childhood. Illegitimate, fatherless - her mother in and out of psychiatric hospitals; it would have been easy for anyone to despair and give up. Yet Gwen had hope. Despite it...

I chose my title, I Am a Child, a Boy, and a Man: Stolen Innocence (A Search for Hope, the Need for Faith), due to my clear ability to see through the eyes of who I was at each stage of my life. It has been very, very tough to see through the eyes of...

Abigail Piper fled New York after a gang threatened her and Charlie's lives. Leaving Charlie was the hardest decision she ever had to make. Her world completely turned upside down after her father's death. After years of heartache Abbie finally made a...

<p><em><b>About Found</b></em></p><p><em><b>All I've ever cared about was being the type of man that God has called me to be, and having a woman in my life who will love me unconditionally...

On a Sunday night during Homecoming weekend in 1999, Neenef Odah lured his ex-girlfriend, Maggie Wardle, to his dorm room at Kalamazoo College and killed her at close range with a shotgun before killing himself. In the wake of this tragedy, the community...

Did you know that gun violence is the #1 cause of death among America's children and teens and that guns in the home are far more likely to be used in killing family members than intruders?Gun Violence 101, a unique illustrated book using original...

Abuse is devastating. It's debilitating. Its impact can be felt throughout the life of the abused, and no one knows that more than the author, Siah B. Hagin. A survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Siah wrote this book for every adult who will be tasked...

      Shakespeare once wrote, 'Hell has no fury like a woman scorned...', well, Mya has finally had enough of the physical abuse, disrespect, shame and mental melt-downs. She's tired of hiding bruises with makeup. She's...

Mildred May Robinson suffered from undiagnosed, untreated mental illness after her birth mother did something horrible to her when she was an infant. Rescued and loved by her adoptive family, Mildred lived an idyllic childhood until she married at...

'I Made It Out' details the raw, uncut, and honest life events of Avishai El.  She is 32 years old and decided to write this book to help other people who are going through situations that they feel as though they can't get out of...

A father takes full custody of his children and not too long after, they are thrown into a life of drugs, sexual abuse and trauma. Once they think they've been saved, foster care is no better. They spend the better part of their lives trying to survive...

BECAUSE EVEN SHADOWS SHINE WITH DISTINCTION DESPITE THE DARKNESS!Shadow: a dark shape produced by coming between rays of light; it is something hovering close to oppression, sadness, and gloom; an inseparable companion who follows and observes someone...