Men Who Batter

Nancy Nason-Clark, Barbara Fisher-Townsend

• Hardcover | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• Men who act abusively have their own story to tell, a journey that often begins in childhood, ripens in their teenage years, and takes them down paths... Lees meer

Women, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Law

Heather Douglas

• Hardcover | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• Every year, millions of women across the world turn to the law to help them live free from intimate partner violence. They engage with child protectio... Lees meer

Violence in Context

• Hardcover | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• Public and academic interest in youth and community violence has grown with school shootings, horrific cases of child abuse, and reports of domestic a... Lees meer

Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence

• Hardcover | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• The United States has uncritically exported its law and policy on gender violence without regard to effectiveness or cultural context, and without ask... Lees meer

Women's Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• Women's Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century offers a global view into the patriarchal attitudes that shape cultural practices that oppress wome... Lees meer

Familicidal Hearts

Neil Websdale

• Paperback | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• Oscar, physically and sexually abusive, stabbed his partner and two stepdaughters to death, buried the bodies, and fled the state with his two younger... Lees meer

The Criminalization of Violence Against Women

• Hardcover | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• Historically states have failed to seriously confront violence against women. In response, in many countries women's rights movements have called on t... Lees meer

Poverty, Battered Women, and Work in U.S. Public Policy

Lisa D Brush

• Hardcover | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• Drawing on longitudinal interviews, government records, and personal narratives, feminist sociologist Lisa Brush examines the intersection of work, we... Lees meer

Battered Women's Protective Strategies

Sherry Hamby

• Hardcover | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• Battered Women's Protective Strategies: Stronger Than You Know challenges the pervasive stereotypes that depict battered women as passive and shows ho... Lees meer

Childhood Victimization

Finkelhor

• Hardcover | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population, and a substantial number face multiple, serious "poly-victimizations" during a ... Lees meer

Religion and Intimate Partner Violence

Nancy Nason-Clark, Barbara Fisher-Townsend, Catherine Holtmann, Stephen McMullin

• Hardcover | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• Intimate partner violence is a complex, ugly, fear-inducing reality for large numbers of women around the world. When violence exists in a relationshi... Lees meer

Coercive Control

Evan Stark

• Hardcover | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• Coercive control is the most common and devastating means used to subjugate women in personal and family life. Drawing on FBI statistics, health recor... Lees meer

When Men Murder Women

R Emerson Dobash, Russell P Dobash

• Hardcover | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• In the United States and Great Britain, 20-30% of all homicides involve the killing of a woman by a man. In When Men Murder Women , Dobash and Dobash ... Lees meer

Children of Coercive Control

Evan Stark

• Hardcover | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• Children of Coercive Control extends Evan Stark's path-breaking analysis of interpersonal violence to children, showing that coercive control is the m... Lees meer

Child Victims and Restorative Justice

Tali Gal

• Hardcover | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• Children are the group most likely to be victimized yet least likely to report the crimes against them. Because of their unique vulnerability, an elab... Lees meer

Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women

• Hardcover | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• Despite significant accomplishments over the past 35 years, antiviolence activists know that justice for most abused women remains elusive. Most victi... Lees meer

Childhood Victimization

David Finkelhor

• Paperback | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population, and a substantial number face multiple, serious "poly-victimizations" during a ... Lees meer

Marital Rape

• Hardcover | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• Rape in marriage is a global problem affecting millions of women -- it is still legal in many countries and was only criminalized in all U.S. states i... Lees meer

Coercive Control

Evan Stark

• Paperback | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• One of the most important books ever written on domestic violence, Coercive Control breaks through entrenched views of physical abuse that have ultima... Lees meer

Parenting by Men Who Batter

• Hardcover | Engels | Interpersonal Violence
• What is the best way to work with fathers who have a history of abusive behavior? This question is among the thorniest that social service and crimina... Lees meer