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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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