- All books (75)
- New Books (6)
- Perpetrators (21)
- Coercive Control (32)
- Cyber Abuse (3)
- Memoirs (12)
- DSGBA Policy, Practice And Research (42)
- Child & Teen (10)
- Victim Survivors (40)
- Audio Books (7)
- E-books (12)
- 5 Books That Could Save Your Life (5)
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NEW – 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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NEW – Children of Coercive Control
Children of Coercive Control extends Evan Stark’s path breaking analysis of interpersonal violence to children, showing that coercive control is the most important cause and context of child abuse and child homicide outside a war zone. ISBN:9780197587096
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NEW – The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help
An honest, intellectually rigorous and insightful book for abused women that challenges readers to truly engage in a political discourse that can change lives, communities and nations. ISBN:9781402204012
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NEW – The Gift of Fear
In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the US’s leading expert on violent behaviour, reveals how to identify even the most subtle signs of danger—signs often overlooked by others—before it’s too late. ISBN:9780747538356
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NEW – 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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NEW – 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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Stop Blaming Mothers and Ignoring Fathers
In this transformative book for professionals and survivors, David Mandel challenges the six main myths of mother-blaming and father-ignoring culture and provides simple, practical solutions and strategies to improve interventions. ISBN:781735164533
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Coercive Control in Children’s and Mothers’ Lives
Drawing on interviews, the author, Dr Emma Katz, sheds light on the impacts of coercive control on children, how it is perpetrators who must be held accountable for those impacts, and how resistance by children and mothers occurs. ISBN:9780367615437
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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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Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship
Lisa Aronson Fontes draws on both professional expertise and personal experience to help us recognise controlling behaviours of all kinds and understand why this destructive pattern occurs. ISBN:9781462520244
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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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See What You Made Me Do
Jess Hill boldly confronts uncomfortable questions about how and why society creates abusers, and shows how we can end this dark cycle of fear and control. It will challenge everything you thought you knew about domestic abuse. ISBN:9781787388260 / 9781787383685
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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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Brutally Honest – The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl
Brutally Honest is an expose of the struggles and acute pain that lay behind Spice Girl, Melanie Brown’s glamour and success. The book reveals the horror of her most recent marriage and her 10 year struggle to be free. ISBN:9781787133525, 9781787133556
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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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Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
The author, a counsellor who specialises in working with abusive men, describes ways to help women recognise when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship ISBN:9780425191651
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Operation Lighthouse: Reflections on our Family’s Devastating Story of Coercive Control and Domestic Homicide
On 19 July 2016, Claire and Charlotte Hart were murdered in broad daylight, by the family’s father. Luke and Ryan Hart, the two surviving sons, open up about their experiences growing up. ISBN:9781841883397
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Remembered Forever: Our family’s devastating story of domestic abuse and murder
A shocking story about living under the terror of coercive control told by the family’s two surviving sons, Luke and Ryan Hart, which brings deeper understanding to the shocking crime of domestic abuse and homicide. ISBN:9781841883403
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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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Power and Control: Why Charming Men Can Make Dangerous Lovers
Sandra Horley CBE draws on almost four decades supporting abused women to provide an insight into the reality behind the mask of the charming man. The book’s aim is to show women they are not alone. ISBN:9781785041488
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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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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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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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Domestic Violence Perpetrators: Evidence-Informed Responses
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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Image-based Sexual Abuse – A Study on the Causes and Consequences of Non-consensual Nude or Sexual Imagery
This book investigates the causes and consequences of image-based sexual abuse. It includes a diversity of behaviours beyond that of “revenge porn”. ISBN:9780367524401
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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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Out Of The Fog: Moving From Confusion to Clarity After Narcissistic Abuse
Dana Morningstar compares and contrasts healthy and unhealthy behaviors, strategies for getting out of the fog of confusion in abusive relationships, and into the clarity of building healthy relationships. ISBN:9780999593516
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Dark Chapter
A defiant retelling of personal trauma, Winnie M Li recreates her own experience of assault and by fictionalising her attack, she ventures into the mind of the attacker and the experiences that shaped him. ISBN:9781785079061
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The Right To Be Me: A harrowing tale of a woman’s struggle to free herself from the clutches of an abusive marriage
A harrowing tale of a woman’s struggle to free herself from the clutches of an abusive eighteen year marriage and free herself from mortal danger. ISBN:9781784651671
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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
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Women with Controlling Partners: Taking Back Your Life from a Manipulative or Abusive Partner
A controlling or abusive partner can break even the strongest person, unless you know what to look for. This book will give you strategies you need to acknowledge the problem ISBN:9781626254718 / 9781626254732
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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 / 9781787476066
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Look What You Made Me Do: A Powerful Memoir of Coercive Control
This book is a candid memoir and inspirational account of how Helen Titchener was trapped by a smiling abuser, not once but twice. It is a vital guide to recognizing, understanding and surviving this sinister form of abuse and its often terrible legacy. ISBN:9781509848744 / 9781509848737 / 9781785416477
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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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The Covert Passive-Aggressive Narcissist: Recognizing the Traits and Finding Healing After Hidden Emotional and Psychological Abuse
This book offers a list of traits of the covert narcissist and how they look like in daily life. She offers tools and hope for a beautiful future, free of toxic relationships. ISBN:9780998621340
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It’s My Life Now: Starting Over After an Abusive Relationship
In this book, Dugan and Hock address various issues associated with abuse and violence, including post-relationship emotions, psychological impact, dealing with children, personal safety, legal problems, and financial security. ISBN 9780415415194
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I Am Not Your Victim: Anatomy of Domestic Violence
This book describes the domestic abuse experienced by co-author Beth Sipe during her 16-year marriage. She describes the background and events leading to a tragic act of desperation that ended the life of her sadistic perpetrator. ISBN:9781452235301
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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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In Love and In Danger: A Teen’s Guide to Breaking Free of Abusive Relationships
Author, Barrie Levy, wrote this book for teenagers who have questions about abusive dating relationships helps them understand the causes and consequences of their situation, and discover how to build healthier relationships. ISBN:9781580051873
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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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Floss and the boss: Helping children learn about domestic abuse and coercive control
This beautifully illustrated and sensitively written storybook has been created to help young children understand about their experiences of domestic abuse and coercive control and make sense of their feelings. ISBN:9780367510794
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Floss and the boss – Professional Guide
Lawler & Sterne designed this book to support professionals with the sensitive and effective use of the storybook, Floss and the Boss, created to help young children understand about domestic abuse and coercive control. ISBN:9780367510817
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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
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A Practical Guide to Coercive Control for Legal Practitioners and Victims
A practical guide to coercive control and its relevance to different areas of law with a particular focus on family law. Author, Rachel Horman describes this as a developing area of law which is often overlooked. ISBN:9781912687220
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Cyberflashing: recognising harms, reforming laws
The authors consider recently adopted laws in the US, Singapore and Scotland, and set out proposals to criminalise cyberflashing as a sexual offence in English law and highlights the need for criminal law reform. ISBN:9781529217629
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Next Time She’ll Be Dead: Battering and How to Stop It
This book on domestic violence includes information on the effect of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, examines resources on the Internet, and details what you can do to help stop battering. ISBN:9780807067895 / 9781504019538
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19 Years
A true story, set in the north of England, through the 1980s and 90s about Ellie married to an abusive husband. Stripped of her self-esteem, will Ellie and her boys ever escape the coercive & controlling existence that is their life? ISBN:9781800160439
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Boys, Childhood Domestic Abuse and Gang Involvement: Violence at Home, Violence On-Road
This book provides important insights into how boys in this context navigate their journey to manhood with the constant presence of violence in their lives, in addition to poverty and racial marginalization. ISBN:9781529219807
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Love’s Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (Thinking Gender)
This study of women carers explores the significance of dependency work to show how both theory and policy fail women when they miss the centrality of dependency to questions of justice. ISBN:9780415904131
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Now Is Everything
Now Is Everything is a stirring debut novel by Amy Giles told in alternating THEN and NOW chapters, about what one girl is willing to do to protect her past, present, and future. The McCauley family look perfect but behind closed doors they are hiding a dark secret. ISBN:9780062495761
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When MEN Batter WOMEN
Drawing on the authors’ own research and written with compassion and insight, When Men Batter Women offers invaluable advice and support to women in abusive relationships, as well as to friends, relatives, and caregivers who want to help. ISBN:9781416551331
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What Kind of Girl
Told in multiple voices, when popular Mike Parker’s girlfriend informs North Bay Academy’s principal that he has been hitting her, students react differently, revealing their own insecurities and problems. A compelling, story of hope and courage. ISBN:9780349003290
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Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence
This book examines how gender and other social identities and inequalities shape experiences of, and responses to, violence in intimate relationships. It provides new insights into men as both perpetrators and victims of violence. ISBN: 9780367234898 / 9780367618483
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The Places I’ve Cried in Public
This book provides an unflinchingly realistic and powerful deconstruction of a toxic teenage relationship, The Places I’ve Cried in Public is a disturbing portrait of a teenage girl and her descent into a coercive, controlling relationship. ISBN:9781474949521.
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Stalking the Soul
In this groundbreaking account, Dr Marie France Hirigoyen lays bare the destructive hidden’ phenomenon of emotional abuse. She argues that while emotional abuse is not as visible as physical abuse, it is equally violent and perhaps even more widespread. ISBN:9781885586995
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Violence Against Women – What Everyone Needs to Know
Jacqui True, an internationally renowned scholar of globalization and gender, provides an expansive frame for understanding Violence against women and girls (VAWG) in this book. ISBN:9780199378937
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Domestic Economic Abuse The Violence of Money
Supriya Singh tells the stories of 12 Anglo-Celtic and Indian women in Australia who survived economic abuse. She describes the lived experience of coercive control underlying economic abuse across cultures. ISBN:9781000456806.
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In The Dream House
In this extraordinarily candid and radically inventive memoir, Carmen Machado recounts her real-life entanglement in an abusive same-sex relationship to create an entirely unique piece of work which is destined to become an instant classic. ISBN:9781644450031 / 9781788162258 / 9781788162241
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Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation
Beth E. Richie shows that the threat of violence to Black women has never been more serious, demonstrating how conservative legal, social, political and economic policies have impacted activism in the US. ISBN:9780814776230
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NEW – 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?
-
NEW – Children of Coercive Control
Children of Coercive Control extends Evan Stark’s path breaking analysis of interpersonal violence to children, showing that coercive control is the most important cause and context of child abuse and child homicide outside a war zone. ISBN:9780197587096
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NEW – The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help
An honest, intellectually rigorous and insightful book for abused women that challenges readers to truly engage in a political discourse that can change lives, communities and nations. ISBN:9781402204012
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NEW – The Gift of Fear
In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the US’s leading expert on violent behaviour, reveals how to identify even the most subtle signs of danger—signs often overlooked by others—before it’s too late. ISBN:9780747538356
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NEW – 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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NEW – 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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NEW – The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help
An honest, intellectually rigorous and insightful book for abused women that challenges readers to truly engage in a political discourse that can change lives, communities and nations. ISBN:9781402204012
-
NEW – 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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Stop Blaming Mothers and Ignoring Fathers
In this transformative book for professionals and survivors, David Mandel challenges the six main myths of mother-blaming and father-ignoring culture and provides simple, practical solutions and strategies to improve interventions. ISBN:781735164533
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Coercive Control in Children’s and Mothers’ Lives
Drawing on interviews, the author, Dr Emma Katz, sheds light on the impacts of coercive control on children, how it is perpetrators who must be held accountable for those impacts, and how resistance by children and mothers occurs. ISBN:9780367615437
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
See What You Made Me Do
Jess Hill boldly confronts uncomfortable questions about how and why society creates abusers, and shows how we can end this dark cycle of fear and control. It will challenge everything you thought you knew about domestic abuse. ISBN:9781787388260 / 9781787383685
-
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
-
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
The author, a counsellor who specialises in working with abusive men, describes ways to help women recognise when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship ISBN:9780425191651
-
Power and Control: Why Charming Men Can Make Dangerous Lovers
Sandra Horley CBE draws on almost four decades supporting abused women to provide an insight into the reality behind the mask of the charming man. The book’s aim is to show women they are not alone. ISBN:9781785041488
-
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
-
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
-
Domestic Violence Perpetrators: Evidence-Informed Responses
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
-
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
-
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 / 9781787476066
-
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
-
The Covert Passive-Aggressive Narcissist: Recognizing the Traits and Finding Healing After Hidden Emotional and Psychological Abuse
This book offers a list of traits of the covert narcissist and how they look like in daily life. She offers tools and hope for a beautiful future, free of toxic relationships. ISBN:9780998621340
-
Boys, Childhood Domestic Abuse and Gang Involvement: Violence at Home, Violence On-Road
This book provides important insights into how boys in this context navigate their journey to manhood with the constant presence of violence in their lives, in addition to poverty and racial marginalization. ISBN:9781529219807
-
When MEN Batter WOMEN
Drawing on the authors’ own research and written with compassion and insight, When Men Batter Women offers invaluable advice and support to women in abusive relationships, as well as to friends, relatives, and caregivers who want to help. ISBN:9781416551331
-
Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence
This book examines how gender and other social identities and inequalities shape experiences of, and responses to, violence in intimate relationships. It provides new insights into men as both perpetrators and victims of violence. ISBN: 9780367234898 / 9780367618483
-
NEW – 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?
-
NEW – Children of Coercive Control
Children of Coercive Control extends Evan Stark’s path breaking analysis of interpersonal violence to children, showing that coercive control is the most important cause and context of child abuse and child homicide outside a war zone. ISBN:9780197587096
-
NEW – The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help
An honest, intellectually rigorous and insightful book for abused women that challenges readers to truly engage in a political discourse that can change lives, communities and nations. ISBN:9781402204012
-
NEW – The Gift of Fear
In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the US’s leading expert on violent behaviour, reveals how to identify even the most subtle signs of danger—signs often overlooked by others—before it’s too late. ISBN:9780747538356
-
NEW – 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
-
NEW – 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
-
Stop Blaming Mothers and Ignoring Fathers
In this transformative book for professionals and survivors, David Mandel challenges the six main myths of mother-blaming and father-ignoring culture and provides simple, practical solutions and strategies to improve interventions. ISBN:781735164533
-
Coercive Control in Children’s and Mothers’ Lives
Drawing on interviews, the author, Dr Emma Katz, sheds light on the impacts of coercive control on children, how it is perpetrators who must be held accountable for those impacts, and how resistance by children and mothers occurs. ISBN:9780367615437
-
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
-
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
-
Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship
Lisa Aronson Fontes draws on both professional expertise and personal experience to help us recognise controlling behaviours of all kinds and understand why this destructive pattern occurs. ISBN:9781462520244
-
See What You Made Me Do
Jess Hill boldly confronts uncomfortable questions about how and why society creates abusers, and shows how we can end this dark cycle of fear and control. It will challenge everything you thought you knew about domestic abuse. ISBN:9781787388260 / 9781787383685
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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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Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
The author, a counsellor who specialises in working with abusive men, describes ways to help women recognise when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship ISBN:9780425191651
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Operation Lighthouse: Reflections on our Family’s Devastating Story of Coercive Control and Domestic Homicide
On 19 July 2016, Claire and Charlotte Hart were murdered in broad daylight, by the family’s father. Luke and Ryan Hart, the two surviving sons, open up about their experiences growing up. ISBN:9781841883397
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Remembered Forever: Our family’s devastating story of domestic abuse and murder
A shocking story about living under the terror of coercive control told by the family’s two surviving sons, Luke and Ryan Hart, which brings deeper understanding to the shocking crime of domestic abuse and homicide. ISBN:9781841883403
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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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Power and Control: Why Charming Men Can Make Dangerous Lovers
Sandra Horley CBE draws on almost four decades supporting abused women to provide an insight into the reality behind the mask of the charming man. The book’s aim is to show women they are not alone. ISBN:9781785041488
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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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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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Out Of The Fog: Moving From Confusion to Clarity After Narcissistic Abuse
Dana Morningstar compares and contrasts healthy and unhealthy behaviors, strategies for getting out of the fog of confusion in abusive relationships, and into the clarity of building healthy relationships. ISBN:9780999593516
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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
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Women with Controlling Partners: Taking Back Your Life from a Manipulative or Abusive Partner
A controlling or abusive partner can break even the strongest person, unless you know what to look for. This book will give you strategies you need to acknowledge the problem ISBN:9781626254718 / 9781626254732
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Look What You Made Me Do: A Powerful Memoir of Coercive Control
This book is a candid memoir and inspirational account of how Helen Titchener was trapped by a smiling abuser, not once but twice. It is a vital guide to recognizing, understanding and surviving this sinister form of abuse and its often terrible legacy. ISBN:9781509848744 / 9781509848737 / 9781785416477
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The Covert Passive-Aggressive Narcissist: Recognizing the Traits and Finding Healing After Hidden Emotional and Psychological Abuse
This book offers a list of traits of the covert narcissist and how they look like in daily life. She offers tools and hope for a beautiful future, free of toxic relationships. ISBN:9780998621340
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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
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A Practical Guide to Coercive Control for Legal Practitioners and Victims
A practical guide to coercive control and its relevance to different areas of law with a particular focus on family law. Author, Rachel Horman describes this as a developing area of law which is often overlooked. ISBN:9781912687220
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Now Is Everything
Now Is Everything is a stirring debut novel by Amy Giles told in alternating THEN and NOW chapters, about what one girl is willing to do to protect her past, present, and future. The McCauley family look perfect but behind closed doors they are hiding a dark secret. ISBN:9780062495761
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The Places I’ve Cried in Public
This book provides an unflinchingly realistic and powerful deconstruction of a toxic teenage relationship, The Places I’ve Cried in Public is a disturbing portrait of a teenage girl and her descent into a coercive, controlling relationship. ISBN:9781474949521.
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Stalking the Soul
In this groundbreaking account, Dr Marie France Hirigoyen lays bare the destructive hidden’ phenomenon of emotional abuse. She argues that while emotional abuse is not as visible as physical abuse, it is equally violent and perhaps even more widespread. ISBN:9781885586995
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Violence Against Women – What Everyone Needs to Know
Jacqui True, an internationally renowned scholar of globalization and gender, provides an expansive frame for understanding Violence against women and girls (VAWG) in this book. ISBN:9780199378937
-
Domestic Economic Abuse The Violence of Money
Supriya Singh tells the stories of 12 Anglo-Celtic and Indian women in Australia who survived economic abuse. She describes the lived experience of coercive control underlying economic abuse across cultures. ISBN:9781000456806.
-
In The Dream House
In this extraordinarily candid and radically inventive memoir, Carmen Machado recounts her real-life entanglement in an abusive same-sex relationship to create an entirely unique piece of work which is destined to become an instant classic. ISBN:9781644450031 / 9781788162258 / 9781788162241
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Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship
Lisa Aronson Fontes draws on both professional expertise and personal experience to help us recognise controlling behaviours of all kinds and understand why this destructive pattern occurs. ISBN:9781462520244
-
Image-based Sexual Abuse – A Study on the Causes and Consequences of Non-consensual Nude or Sexual Imagery
This book investigates the causes and consequences of image-based sexual abuse. It includes a diversity of behaviours beyond that of “revenge porn”. ISBN:9780367524401
-
Cyberflashing: recognising harms, reforming laws
The authors consider recently adopted laws in the US, Singapore and Scotland, and set out proposals to criminalise cyberflashing as a sexual offence in English law and highlights the need for criminal law reform. ISBN:9781529217629
-
Brutally Honest – The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl
Brutally Honest is an expose of the struggles and acute pain that lay behind Spice Girl, Melanie Brown’s glamour and success. The book reveals the horror of her most recent marriage and her 10 year struggle to be free. ISBN:9781787133525, 9781787133556
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Operation Lighthouse: Reflections on our Family’s Devastating Story of Coercive Control and Domestic Homicide
On 19 July 2016, Claire and Charlotte Hart were murdered in broad daylight, by the family’s father. Luke and Ryan Hart, the two surviving sons, open up about their experiences growing up. ISBN:9781841883397
-
Remembered Forever: Our family’s devastating story of domestic abuse and murder
A shocking story about living under the terror of coercive control told by the family’s two surviving sons, Luke and Ryan Hart, which brings deeper understanding to the shocking crime of domestic abuse and homicide. ISBN:9781841883403
-
Out Of The Fog: Moving From Confusion to Clarity After Narcissistic Abuse
Dana Morningstar compares and contrasts healthy and unhealthy behaviors, strategies for getting out of the fog of confusion in abusive relationships, and into the clarity of building healthy relationships. ISBN:9780999593516
-
Dark Chapter
A defiant retelling of personal trauma, Winnie M Li recreates her own experience of assault and by fictionalising her attack, she ventures into the mind of the attacker and the experiences that shaped him. ISBN:9781785079061
-
The Right To Be Me: A harrowing tale of a woman’s struggle to free herself from the clutches of an abusive marriage
A harrowing tale of a woman’s struggle to free herself from the clutches of an abusive eighteen year marriage and free herself from mortal danger. ISBN:9781784651671
-
Look What You Made Me Do: A Powerful Memoir of Coercive Control
This book is a candid memoir and inspirational account of how Helen Titchener was trapped by a smiling abuser, not once but twice. It is a vital guide to recognizing, understanding and surviving this sinister form of abuse and its often terrible legacy. ISBN:9781509848744 / 9781509848737 / 9781785416477
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It’s My Life Now: Starting Over After an Abusive Relationship
In this book, Dugan and Hock address various issues associated with abuse and violence, including post-relationship emotions, psychological impact, dealing with children, personal safety, legal problems, and financial security. ISBN 9780415415194
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I Am Not Your Victim: Anatomy of Domestic Violence
This book describes the domestic abuse experienced by co-author Beth Sipe during her 16-year marriage. She describes the background and events leading to a tragic act of desperation that ended the life of her sadistic perpetrator. ISBN:9781452235301
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19 Years
A true story, set in the north of England, through the 1980s and 90s about Ellie married to an abusive husband. Stripped of her self-esteem, will Ellie and her boys ever escape the coercive & controlling existence that is their life? ISBN:9781800160439
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The Places I’ve Cried in Public
This book provides an unflinchingly realistic and powerful deconstruction of a toxic teenage relationship, The Places I’ve Cried in Public is a disturbing portrait of a teenage girl and her descent into a coercive, controlling relationship. ISBN:9781474949521.
-
In The Dream House
In this extraordinarily candid and radically inventive memoir, Carmen Machado recounts her real-life entanglement in an abusive same-sex relationship to create an entirely unique piece of work which is destined to become an instant classic. ISBN:9781644450031 / 9781788162258 / 9781788162241
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NEW – 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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NEW – 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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NEW – 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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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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Domestic Violence Perpetrators: Evidence-Informed Responses
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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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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
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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 / 9781787476066
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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
-
A Practical Guide to Coercive Control for Legal Practitioners and Victims
A practical guide to coercive control and its relevance to different areas of law with a particular focus on family law. Author, Rachel Horman describes this as a developing area of law which is often overlooked. ISBN:9781912687220
-
Cyberflashing: recognising harms, reforming laws
The authors consider recently adopted laws in the US, Singapore and Scotland, and set out proposals to criminalise cyberflashing as a sexual offence in English law and highlights the need for criminal law reform. ISBN:9781529217629
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Next Time She’ll Be Dead: Battering and How to Stop It
This book on domestic violence includes information on the effect of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, examines resources on the Internet, and details what you can do to help stop battering. ISBN:9780807067895 / 9781504019538
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Boys, Childhood Domestic Abuse and Gang Involvement: Violence at Home, Violence On-Road
This book provides important insights into how boys in this context navigate their journey to manhood with the constant presence of violence in their lives, in addition to poverty and racial marginalization. ISBN:9781529219807
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Love’s Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (Thinking Gender)
This study of women carers explores the significance of dependency work to show how both theory and policy fail women when they miss the centrality of dependency to questions of justice. ISBN:9780415904131
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When MEN Batter WOMEN
Drawing on the authors’ own research and written with compassion and insight, When Men Batter Women offers invaluable advice and support to women in abusive relationships, as well as to friends, relatives, and caregivers who want to help. ISBN:9781416551331
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Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence
This book examines how gender and other social identities and inequalities shape experiences of, and responses to, violence in intimate relationships. It provides new insights into men as both perpetrators and victims of violence. ISBN: 9780367234898 / 9780367618483
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Violence Against Women – What Everyone Needs to Know
Jacqui True, an internationally renowned scholar of globalization and gender, provides an expansive frame for understanding Violence against women and girls (VAWG) in this book. ISBN:9780199378937
-
Domestic Economic Abuse The Violence of Money
Supriya Singh tells the stories of 12 Anglo-Celtic and Indian women in Australia who survived economic abuse. She describes the lived experience of coercive control underlying economic abuse across cultures. ISBN:9781000456806.
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Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation
Beth E. Richie shows that the threat of violence to Black women has never been more serious, demonstrating how conservative legal, social, political and economic policies have impacted activism in the US. ISBN:9780814776230
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Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship
Lisa Aronson Fontes draws on both professional expertise and personal experience to help us recognise controlling behaviours of all kinds and understand why this destructive pattern occurs. ISBN:9781462520244
-
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
-
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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In Love and In Danger: A Teen’s Guide to Breaking Free of Abusive Relationships
Author, Barrie Levy, wrote this book for teenagers who have questions about abusive dating relationships helps them understand the causes and consequences of their situation, and discover how to build healthier relationships. ISBN:9781580051873
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Floss and the boss: Helping children learn about domestic abuse and coercive control
This beautifully illustrated and sensitively written storybook has been created to help young children understand about their experiences of domestic abuse and coercive control and make sense of their feelings. ISBN:9780367510794
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Floss and the boss – Professional Guide
Lawler & Sterne designed this book to support professionals with the sensitive and effective use of the storybook, Floss and the Boss, created to help young children understand about domestic abuse and coercive control. ISBN:9780367510817
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Now Is Everything
Now Is Everything is a stirring debut novel by Amy Giles told in alternating THEN and NOW chapters, about what one girl is willing to do to protect her past, present, and future. The McCauley family look perfect but behind closed doors they are hiding a dark secret. ISBN:9780062495761
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What Kind of Girl
Told in multiple voices, when popular Mike Parker’s girlfriend informs North Bay Academy’s principal that he has been hitting her, students react differently, revealing their own insecurities and problems. A compelling, story of hope and courage. ISBN:9780349003290
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The Places I’ve Cried in Public
This book provides an unflinchingly realistic and powerful deconstruction of a toxic teenage relationship, The Places I’ve Cried in Public is a disturbing portrait of a teenage girl and her descent into a coercive, controlling relationship. ISBN:9781474949521.
-
In The Dream House
In this extraordinarily candid and radically inventive memoir, Carmen Machado recounts her real-life entanglement in an abusive same-sex relationship to create an entirely unique piece of work which is destined to become an instant classic. ISBN:9781644450031 / 9781788162258 / 9781788162241
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NEW – Children of Coercive Control
Children of Coercive Control extends Evan Stark’s path breaking analysis of interpersonal violence to children, showing that coercive control is the most important cause and context of child abuse and child homicide outside a war zone. ISBN:9780197587096
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NEW – The Gift of Fear
In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the US’s leading expert on violent behaviour, reveals how to identify even the most subtle signs of danger—signs often overlooked by others—before it’s too late. ISBN:9780747538356
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NEW – 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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Stop Blaming Mothers and Ignoring Fathers
In this transformative book for professionals and survivors, David Mandel challenges the six main myths of mother-blaming and father-ignoring culture and provides simple, practical solutions and strategies to improve interventions. ISBN:781735164533
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Coercive Control in Children’s and Mothers’ Lives
Drawing on interviews, the author, Dr Emma Katz, sheds light on the impacts of coercive control on children, how it is perpetrators who must be held accountable for those impacts, and how resistance by children and mothers occurs. ISBN:9780367615437
-
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
-
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
-
Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship
Lisa Aronson Fontes draws on both professional expertise and personal experience to help us recognise controlling behaviours of all kinds and understand why this destructive pattern occurs. ISBN:9781462520244
-
See What You Made Me Do
Jess Hill boldly confronts uncomfortable questions about how and why society creates abusers, and shows how we can end this dark cycle of fear and control. It will challenge everything you thought you knew about domestic abuse. ISBN:9781787388260 / 9781787383685
-
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
-
Brutally Honest – The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl
Brutally Honest is an expose of the struggles and acute pain that lay behind Spice Girl, Melanie Brown’s glamour and success. The book reveals the horror of her most recent marriage and her 10 year struggle to be free. ISBN:9781787133525, 9781787133556
-
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
-
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
The author, a counsellor who specialises in working with abusive men, describes ways to help women recognise when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship ISBN:9780425191651
-
Operation Lighthouse: Reflections on our Family’s Devastating Story of Coercive Control and Domestic Homicide
On 19 July 2016, Claire and Charlotte Hart were murdered in broad daylight, by the family’s father. Luke and Ryan Hart, the two surviving sons, open up about their experiences growing up. ISBN:9781841883397
-
Remembered Forever: Our family’s devastating story of domestic abuse and murder
A shocking story about living under the terror of coercive control told by the family’s two surviving sons, Luke and Ryan Hart, which brings deeper understanding to the shocking crime of domestic abuse and homicide. ISBN:9781841883403
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Image-based Sexual Abuse – A Study on the Causes and Consequences of Non-consensual Nude or Sexual Imagery
This book investigates the causes and consequences of image-based sexual abuse. It includes a diversity of behaviours beyond that of “revenge porn”. ISBN:9780367524401
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Out Of The Fog: Moving From Confusion to Clarity After Narcissistic Abuse
Dana Morningstar compares and contrasts healthy and unhealthy behaviors, strategies for getting out of the fog of confusion in abusive relationships, and into the clarity of building healthy relationships. ISBN:9780999593516
-
Dark Chapter
A defiant retelling of personal trauma, Winnie M Li recreates her own experience of assault and by fictionalising her attack, she ventures into the mind of the attacker and the experiences that shaped him. ISBN:9781785079061
-
The Right To Be Me: A harrowing tale of a woman’s struggle to free herself from the clutches of an abusive marriage
A harrowing tale of a woman’s struggle to free herself from the clutches of an abusive eighteen year marriage and free herself from mortal danger. ISBN:9781784651671
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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
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Women with Controlling Partners: Taking Back Your Life from a Manipulative or Abusive Partner
A controlling or abusive partner can break even the strongest person, unless you know what to look for. This book will give you strategies you need to acknowledge the problem ISBN:9781626254718 / 9781626254732
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Look What You Made Me Do: A Powerful Memoir of Coercive Control
This book is a candid memoir and inspirational account of how Helen Titchener was trapped by a smiling abuser, not once but twice. It is a vital guide to recognizing, understanding and surviving this sinister form of abuse and its often terrible legacy. ISBN:9781509848744 / 9781509848737 / 9781785416477
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It’s My Life Now: Starting Over After an Abusive Relationship
In this book, Dugan and Hock address various issues associated with abuse and violence, including post-relationship emotions, psychological impact, dealing with children, personal safety, legal problems, and financial security. ISBN 9780415415194
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I Am Not Your Victim: Anatomy of Domestic Violence
This book describes the domestic abuse experienced by co-author Beth Sipe during her 16-year marriage. She describes the background and events leading to a tragic act of desperation that ended the life of her sadistic perpetrator. ISBN:9781452235301
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In Love and In Danger: A Teen’s Guide to Breaking Free of Abusive Relationships
Author, Barrie Levy, wrote this book for teenagers who have questions about abusive dating relationships helps them understand the causes and consequences of their situation, and discover how to build healthier relationships. ISBN:9781580051873
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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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19 Years
A true story, set in the north of England, through the 1980s and 90s about Ellie married to an abusive husband. Stripped of her self-esteem, will Ellie and her boys ever escape the coercive & controlling existence that is their life? ISBN:9781800160439
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Now Is Everything
Now Is Everything is a stirring debut novel by Amy Giles told in alternating THEN and NOW chapters, about what one girl is willing to do to protect her past, present, and future. The McCauley family look perfect but behind closed doors they are hiding a dark secret. ISBN:9780062495761
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What Kind of Girl
Told in multiple voices, when popular Mike Parker’s girlfriend informs North Bay Academy’s principal that he has been hitting her, students react differently, revealing their own insecurities and problems. A compelling, story of hope and courage. ISBN:9780349003290
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The Places I’ve Cried in Public
This book provides an unflinchingly realistic and powerful deconstruction of a toxic teenage relationship, The Places I’ve Cried in Public is a disturbing portrait of a teenage girl and her descent into a coercive, controlling relationship. ISBN:9781474949521.
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Stalking the Soul
In this groundbreaking account, Dr Marie France Hirigoyen lays bare the destructive hidden’ phenomenon of emotional abuse. She argues that while emotional abuse is not as visible as physical abuse, it is equally violent and perhaps even more widespread. ISBN:9781885586995
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In The Dream House
In this extraordinarily candid and radically inventive memoir, Carmen Machado recounts her real-life entanglement in an abusive same-sex relationship to create an entirely unique piece of work which is destined to become an instant classic. ISBN:9781644450031 / 9781788162258 / 9781788162241
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Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation
Beth E. Richie shows that the threat of violence to Black women has never been more serious, demonstrating how conservative legal, social, political and economic policies have impacted activism in the US. ISBN:9780814776230
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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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Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship
Lisa Aronson Fontes draws on both professional expertise and personal experience to help us recognise controlling behaviours of all kinds and understand why this destructive pattern occurs. ISBN:9781462520244
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See What You Made Me Do
Jess Hill boldly confronts uncomfortable questions about how and why society creates abusers, and shows how we can end this dark cycle of fear and control. It will challenge everything you thought you knew about domestic abuse. ISBN:9781787388260 / 9781787383685
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Brutally Honest – The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl
Brutally Honest is an expose of the struggles and acute pain that lay behind Spice Girl, Melanie Brown’s glamour and success. The book reveals the horror of her most recent marriage and her 10 year struggle to be free. ISBN:9781787133525, 9781787133556
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Dark Chapter
A defiant retelling of personal trauma, Winnie M Li recreates her own experience of assault and by fictionalising her attack, she ventures into the mind of the attacker and the experiences that shaped him. ISBN:9781785079061
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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
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In The Dream House
In this extraordinarily candid and radically inventive memoir, Carmen Machado recounts her real-life entanglement in an abusive same-sex relationship to create an entirely unique piece of work which is destined to become an instant classic. ISBN:9781644450031 / 9781788162258 / 9781788162241
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NEW – The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help
An honest, intellectually rigorous and insightful book for abused women that challenges readers to truly engage in a political discourse that can change lives, communities and nations. ISBN:9781402204012
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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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See What You Made Me Do
Jess Hill boldly confronts uncomfortable questions about how and why society creates abusers, and shows how we can end this dark cycle of fear and control. It will challenge everything you thought you knew about domestic abuse. ISBN:9781787388260 / 9781787383685
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Brutally Honest – The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl
Brutally Honest is an expose of the struggles and acute pain that lay behind Spice Girl, Melanie Brown’s glamour and success. The book reveals the horror of her most recent marriage and her 10 year struggle to be free. ISBN:9781787133525, 9781787133556
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Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
The author, a counsellor who specialises in working with abusive men, describes ways to help women recognise when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship ISBN:9780425191651
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Dark Chapter
A defiant retelling of personal trauma, Winnie M Li recreates her own experience of assault and by fictionalising her attack, she ventures into the mind of the attacker and the experiences that shaped him. ISBN:9781785079061
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Women with Controlling Partners: Taking Back Your Life from a Manipulative or Abusive Partner
A controlling or abusive partner can break even the strongest person, unless you know what to look for. This book will give you strategies you need to acknowledge the problem ISBN:9781626254718 / 9781626254732
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Look What You Made Me Do: A Powerful Memoir of Coercive Control
This book is a candid memoir and inspirational account of how Helen Titchener was trapped by a smiling abuser, not once but twice. It is a vital guide to recognizing, understanding and surviving this sinister form of abuse and its often terrible legacy. ISBN:9781509848744 / 9781509848737 / 9781785416477
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Next Time She’ll Be Dead: Battering and How to Stop It
This book on domestic violence includes information on the effect of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, examines resources on the Internet, and details what you can do to help stop battering. ISBN:9780807067895 / 9781504019538
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The Places I’ve Cried in Public
This book provides an unflinchingly realistic and powerful deconstruction of a toxic teenage relationship, The Places I’ve Cried in Public is a disturbing portrait of a teenage girl and her descent into a coercive, controlling relationship. ISBN:9781474949521.
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In The Dream House
In this extraordinarily candid and radically inventive memoir, Carmen Machado recounts her real-life entanglement in an abusive same-sex relationship to create an entirely unique piece of work which is destined to become an instant classic. ISBN:9781644450031 / 9781788162258 / 9781788162241
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NEW – 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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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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Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship
Lisa Aronson Fontes draws on both professional expertise and personal experience to help us recognise controlling behaviours of all kinds and understand why this destructive pattern occurs. ISBN:9781462520244
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Brutally Honest – The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl
Brutally Honest is an expose of the struggles and acute pain that lay behind Spice Girl, Melanie Brown’s glamour and success. The book reveals the horror of her most recent marriage and her 10 year struggle to be free. ISBN:9781787133525, 9781787133556
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Operation Lighthouse: Reflections on our Family’s Devastating Story of Coercive Control and Domestic Homicide
On 19 July 2016, Claire and Charlotte Hart were murdered in broad daylight, by the family’s father. Luke and Ryan Hart, the two surviving sons, open up about their experiences growing up. ISBN:9781841883397
Association Femmes d’Europe is a philanthropic, apolitical and independent association that funds small-scale humanitarian projects which focus primarily on education, training and the health of women and children. With support of Association Femmes d’Europe Haven Horizons has donated additional books on domestic, sexual and gender-based abuse.
