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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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Responding To Domestic Violence: Emerging Challenges for Policy, Practice and Research in Europe
This book describes how countries within and outside the EU are responding to the problem in policy, practice and research. Eminent academics and professionals share their findings. ISBN:9781785922619
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Violence Against Women: Current theory and practice in domestic abuse, sexual violence and exploitation
This book seeks to address issues surrounding violence against women, from its root causes to the specific needs arising in victims of abuse from a particular social or ethnic group. ISBN:9781849051323
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Coordinating Community Responses to Domestic Violence – Lessons from Duluth and Beyond
This book examines how to develop a response to domestic violence using the Deluth Model, a widely disseminated approach to community-based intervention in domestic violence. ISBN:9780761911241
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Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice
This book aims to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the subject of domestic violence and its interaction with the criminal justice system. It looks at how these various agencies work together at a local level. ISBN:9781843928195
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Women, Violence & Strategies for Action
The book gathers together the ideas, discussions and developments arising from the work of the researchers and activists who are part of the British Sociological Association Violence Against Women Study Group. ISBN:9780335203697
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Domestic Abuse: Contemporary Perspectives and Innovative Practices
This volume provides a valuable source of knowledge for those working and studying across a broad range of sectors, including health, education, housing, social work, criminal justice, law and politics. ISBN:9781780460598
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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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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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The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offender Perspectives
This book opens up new areas of enquiry, exploring topics using a practical approach to social deviance that is underpinned by frontier research findings, policy, and international trends ISBN:9780128092873
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The Concept and Measurement of Violence Against Women and Men
Sylvia Walby provides a guide to how the measurement of violence can be best achieved.It offers practical guidance on definitions, indicators and coordination mechanisms aswell as new standards and guidelines ISBN:9781447332633
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Irish Times – Clare Woman wins The Wheel’s National Community Hero Award (2018)
Irish Times | Clare Woman wins National Award (2018).
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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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Haven Horizons Book Donations to Libraries Ireland and TUS
Over the last three years, we selected, purchased and donated a wide range of books and e-books on domestic, sexual and gender-based-abuse to Libraries Ireland and Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest. These books can be accessed at any library branch in the country. The Library Service has created a new gender-based abuse e-shelf.…
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Level 6 course – Reflecting On And Responding To Domestic Abuse And Coercive Control
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Button_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Reflecting on and Responding to Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control’ (Level 6 Special Purpose Award) was developed as a partnership between Haven Horizons and Technological University of Shannon (TUS). Semester 2 Intake: Tuesday 21st February to Tuesday 9th May 2023, 7pm – 9pm – (No classes on Tuesday 4th April and Tuesday 11th April due…
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Light on the Horizon book
Light on the Horizon is the inspiring story of two women who said no to domestic abuse and of an entire community that walked that journey with them. This book tells the story of how small acts of compassion ignited an enduring community response to relationship abuse. Drawing from the archives and the recollections of…
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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