When MEN Batter WOMEN
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
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
Now is Everything
Now Is Everything is a stirring debut novel by Amy Gilles, told in alternating Then and Now chapters, perfect for Sarah Dessen and Jennifer Niven fans, about what one girl with a dark famiy secret is willing to do to protect her past, present, and future. ISBN:9780062495761
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
The Places I’ve Cried in Public
This book provides 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.
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
Violence Against Women – What Everyone Needs to Know
Violence against Women Act and a United Nations declaration to end sexual violence in war, to coverage of gang rapes in India, cyberstalking and “revenge porn”, honor killings, female genital mutilation, and international trafficking. Yet, while we frequently read or learn about particular experiences or incidents of VAWG, we are often unaware of the full…
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:ISBN 9781000456806.
In The Dream House
In this extraordinarily candid and radically inventive memoir, 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:9781788162258
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 criminology Jane Monckton Smith’s groundbreaking 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
A Typology of Domestic Violence
Johnson explores the different types of intimate partner violence and if 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
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
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
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. The Light on The Horizon charts the evolution of the charities Clare Haven Services and Haven Horizons. ISBN:9781739669409
Next Time She’ll Be Dead: Battering & 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Understanding Social Inequality
Tim Butler & Paul Watt provide a perspective on the topics of class, inequality, poverty and politics and offers its own distinctive perspectives on a set of issues that are still central to the sociological enterprise and political life. ISBN:9780761963707
Legitimate Sexpectations
Legitimate Sexpectations exposes the limits of the criminal justice system and the fault lines in our society when it comes to sex, sexuality, and relationships and makes the case for a cultural shift towards valuing sexual wellbeing and preventing sexual violence. ISBN:9780465061716
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