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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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The Concept and Measurement of Violence Against Women and Men
Sylvia Walby provides a guide to how the measurement of violence can be best achieved.It offers practical guidance on definitions, indicators and coordination mechanisms aswell as new standards and guidelines ISBN:9781447332633
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The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offender Perspectives
This book opens up new areas of enquiry, exploring topics using a practical approach to social deviance that is underpinned by frontier research findings, policy, and international trends ISBN:9780128092873
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This comprehensive book provides an overview of what the research tells us about the perpetrators of domestic violence and what works, and what does not, in promoting positive change. ISBN:9781138480483
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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