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NEW – Tackling Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence – A Systems Approach
This book brings together a range of expert voices: academics, researchers, practitioners, activists, and policy leads who respond to domestic and sexual violence in various settings. The writers are unified in the need to embed systemic responses to these social issues within a broader accountability and support system.
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NEW – Preventing Domestic Homicides: Lessons Learned from Tragedies
The book focuses on the diverse nature of domestic homicides and what has been learned about the most effective prevention strategies both from emerging research and the work of domestic violence death review committees in Canada, the US, the UK, NZ and AUS.
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What Is to Be Done About Violence Against Women?
This book maps the problems and possibilities of the policies and practices designed to tackle violence against women in the domestic sphere over the last 40 years. It asks the simple yet critical question: how can governments best ensure women’s safety in the twenty-first century?
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LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence: Lessons for Policy, Practice and Research
This is the first book that systematically reviews the literature regarding LGBTQ intimate partner violence, draws key lessons for current practice and policy, and recommends research areas and enhanced methodologies. ISBN:9780520352346
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Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
Renowned trauma expert Judith L. Herman commits the radical act of listening to survivors. Recounting their stories, she offers an alternative vision of justice as healing for survivors and their communities. ISBN: 9781529395020
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Social Work and Domestic Violence: Developing Critical And Reflective Practice
Domestic violence affects all areas of social work. This book shows how social workers can intervene in everyday practice with victims, their families and perpetrators of domestic abuse. ISBN:9781412919234
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Coercive Control – How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life (Interpersonal Violence)
One of the most important books ever written on domestic violence, Coercive Control breaks through entrenched views of physical abuse that have ultimately failed to protect women. ISBN:9780195384048
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In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder
World-renowned criminologist Jane Monckton Smith’s ground breaking work is revolutionising the understanding of coercive control and domestic homicide among those who respond to it. Monckton Smith shares a glimpse into a world of coercive control. ISBN:9781526613219, 9781526613226
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A Typology of Domestic Violence
Johnson explores the different types of intimate partner violence and whether it can be defined as a “unitary phenomenon” or whether there are multiple forms of domestic violence. This volume begins the work of theorizing forms of domestic violence. ISBN:9781555536947
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Stopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education
Stopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education provides a unique insight into how gender-based violence at universities is impacting students and staff and suggests prevention strategies to deal with this issue. ISBN:9781032172477
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The Routledge International Handbook of Domestic Violence and Abuse
This book makes an important contribution to the international understanding of domestic violence and shares the latest knowledge of what causes and sustains domestic violence between intimate partners. ISBN:9780367686253
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Trauma and Recovery : The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Hailed as ground-breaking work, Herman draws on cutting-edge research in domestic violence to show the parallels between private terrors such as rape and public traumas such as terrorism. ISBN:9780465087303, 9781541602953
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Domestic Abuse, Homicide and Gender: Strategies for Policy and Practice
This book argues for a re-conceptualisation of the female victim to enhance safety management and encourage a deeper understanding of the emotional dynamics and social structures which perpetuate violence. ISBN:9781137307422
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Light on the Horizon, A Community Response to Relationship Abuse
This book tells the story of how small acts of compassion ignited an enduring community response to relationship abuse. Light on The Horizon charts the evolution of the charities Clare Haven Services and Haven Horizons. ISBN:9781739669409
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Responding To Domestic Violence: Emerging Challenges for Policy, Practice and Research in Europe
This book describes how countries within and outside the EU are responding to the problem in policy, practice and research. Eminent academics and professionals share their findings. ISBN:9781785922619
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Violence Against Women: Current theory and practice in domestic abuse, sexual violence and exploitation
This book seeks to address issues surrounding violence against women, from its root causes to the specific needs arising in victims of abuse from a particular social or ethnic group. ISBN:9781849051323
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Coordinating Community Responses to Domestic Violence – Lessons from Duluth and Beyond
This book examines how to develop a response to domestic violence using the Deluth Model, a widely disseminated approach to community-based intervention in domestic violence. ISBN:9780761911241
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Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice
This book aims to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the subject of domestic violence and its interaction with the criminal justice system. It looks at how these various agencies work together at a local level. ISBN:9781843928195
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Women, Violence & Strategies for Action
The book gathers together the ideas, discussions and developments arising from the work of the researchers and activists who are part of the British Sociological Association Violence Against Women Study Group. ISBN:9780335203697
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Domestic Abuse: Contemporary Perspectives and Innovative Practices
This volume provides a valuable source of knowledge for those working and studying across a broad range of sectors, including health, education, housing, social work, criminal justice, law and politics. ISBN:9781780460598
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This comprehensive book provides an overview of what the research tells us about the perpetrators of domestic violence and what works, and what does not, in promoting positive change. ISBN:9781138480483
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Understanding Social Inequality
Tim Butler & Paul Watt provide a perspective on the topics of class, inequality, poverty and politics and offer their own distinctive perspectives on a set of issues that are still central to the sociological enterprise and political life. ISBN:9780761963707
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The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offender Perspectives
This book opens up new areas of enquiry, exploring topics using a practical approach to social deviance that is underpinned by frontier research findings, policy, and international trends ISBN:9780128092873
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The Concept and Measurement of Violence Against Women and Men
Sylvia Walby provides a guide to how the measurement of violence can be best achieved.It offers practical guidance on definitions, indicators and coordination mechanisms aswell as new standards and guidelines ISBN:9781447332633
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Working with Domestic Violence and Abuse Across the Lifecourse Understanding Good Practice
Spanning children’s and adult’s services, this book explores the nature &impact of domestic abuse and violence, highlighting the need for a coordinated ‘whole family’ approach. ISBN:978178592040
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Coercive Control
This book offers a critical appreciation of the nature and impact of coercive control in interpersonal relationships. It examines what this concept means, who is impacted by the behaviours, and how academics, policymakers, and policy advocates have responded. ISBN:9780367894269
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Why Women Are Blamed For Everything: Exposing the Culture of Victim-Blaming
Based on three years of doctoral research and ten years of practice with women and girls, Dr Jessica Taylor explores the many reasons we blame women for male violence committed against them. ISBN:9781472135483
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Violence Against Women: Vulnerable Populations
In this book, Douglas Brownridge investigates under-researched and underserved groups of women who are particularly vulnerable to violent victimization from an intimate male partner. ISBN:9780415996082
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Violence against Women: Criminological Perspectives on Men’s Violences
This book usefully covers all of the main forms of violence against women, looking at it from a research, policy, and practice perspective. Tthis book widens the lens through which we view men’s violences against women. ISBN:9781843923985
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No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
Award-winning journalist Journalist Rachel Louise Snyder frames an urgent and immersive account of the scale of domestic violence around fearlessly reporting key stories from the front lines that explode the common myths. ISBN:9781635570977 / 9781912854851