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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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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
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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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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:9781787388260
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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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Living With The Dominator: A book about the Freedom programme
This book explains violent and abusive behaviour and places it in a social context. It can help readers of any age and sexual orientation to change their own behaviour and to recognise when they are being controlled. ISBN:9780955882708
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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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When Dad Hurts Mum: Helping Your Children Heal the Wounds of Witnessing Abuse
This book is written by a counsellor who reveals how abusers interact with and manipulate children and how mothers can help their children recover from the trauma of witnessing abuse. ISBN:9780425200315
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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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Legitimate Sexpectations
Legitimate Sexpectations exposes the limits of the criminal justice system and the fault lines in our society when it comes to sex, sexuality, and relationships and makes the case for a cultural shift towards valuing sexual wellbeing and preventing sexual violence. ISBN:9780465061716
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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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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:9781912854851
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Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists
In this book Joan Smith examines the roots of terrorism, and points out they were all carried out by men with histories of domestic violence. She suggests that terrorism and it’s solution begin at home. ISBN:9781787476042
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Engaging with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence: Practical Techniques for Early Intervention
This concise book, written in practical and easy to follow language, equips practitioners with the knowledge and techniques they need to make the most of limited client contact with perpetrators. ISBN:9781849053808
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Violence Against Women and Ethnicity: Commonalities and Differences Across Europe
This book draws together both theory and practice on minority/migrant women and gendered violence and discusses the interplay of gender, ethnicity, religion, class, generation, and sexuality. ISBN:9781013294167
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The Domestic Violence Sourcebook
This book provides a comprehensive, compassionate look at domestic violence. This well-organized, accessible book offers the most current information available on prevention and recovery, along with practical steps for escaping a violent domestic situation. ISBN:9780737304190
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Criminalising Coercive Control: Family Violence and the Criminal Law
This book considers whether coercive control (particularly non-physical forms of family violence) should be prohibited by the criminal law. The authors consider whether the core of family violence is power-based controlling or coercive behavior. ISBN:9789811506529