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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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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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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