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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General

Bearing Witness - Violence and Collective Responsibility (Hardcover): Sandra L. Bloom, Michael Reichert Bearing Witness - Violence and Collective Responsibility (Hardcover)
Sandra L. Bloom, Michael Reichert
R3,201 Discovery Miles 32 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bearing Witness: Violence and Collective Responsibility offers a unique layperson's introduction to the scope and causes of violence and trauma theory and suggests ways we can all work to attack these causes. Upon completing this work, you will have a better understanding of the social causes of the violence epidemic and concrete suggestions for its long-term control.Bearing Witness addresses the cycle of violence by discussing some of the biological, psychological, social, and moral issues that go into determining whether a person will end up as a victim, perpetrator, or bystander to violent events and what happens to us when we are in one or all three of these roles. The authors look at a number of intersecting factors that play interdependent roles in creating a culture that promotes, supports, and even encourages violence. Specifically, you'll gain invaluable insight into: trauma theory and traumatogenic forces--backdrops against which the chances of exposure to violence and the use of violence as a problemsolver are increased normal human development in the context of attachment theory and what occurs as a result of disrupted attachment bonds how rapid changes in modern society and the breakdown of the traditional family structure contribute to a level of social stress that promotes violence violence in the family, in the workplace, and in the schools--all places to which people turn for security social responses to violence--the ways in which certain responses decrease or increase the likelihood of violence the unhealthy balance of power between the genders and how violence or the threat of violence maintains this imbalance how our cultural standard of disavowing our normal emotional experience sets the stage for repeated and regular empathic failure, which leads to violenceA framework for understanding the various aspects of the problem of violence, Bearing Witness delves into the various aspects of trauma--what trauma does to the body, the mind, the emotions, and relationships--before beginning to formulate proposals for initiating processes that lead to problemsolving. Once this knowledge base has been established, the authors give you the beginnings of an outline for reorganizing society with the aim of establishing a community that is responsive to the basic human need for safety and peace.

Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide (Paperback): Rosine Jozef Perelberg Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide (Paperback)
Rosine Jozef Perelberg; Foreword by Leonard Shengold; Preface by Ronald Britton
R1,262 Discovery Miles 12 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Functns Soc Conflict   Ils 110 (Hardcover): Lewis A. Coser Functns Soc Conflict Ils 110 (Hardcover)
Lewis A. Coser
R5,378 Discovery Miles 53 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Coercive Control (Hardcover): Charlotte Barlow, Sandra Walklate Coercive Control (Hardcover)
Charlotte Barlow, Sandra Walklate
R1,499 Discovery Miles 14 990 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

1. Intimate partner violence is a global issue that has received significant attention in recent years, animating political debate, policy reform and scholarly review making this book relevant to a wider audience, including scholars from the US, UK, Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. 2. This book will be of significant interest to policy makers, practitioners and advocates in the US, UK, Europe, North America, South America, Australia and New Zealand as well as being relevant for the vibrant international presence of criminology within higher education. 3. This book will be useful supplementary reading for a range of courses on gender, crime and justice, violence against women, and feminist criminology.

Investigating Sexual Assault Cases (Paperback, 2nd edition): Arthur S. Chancellor Investigating Sexual Assault Cases (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Arthur S. Chancellor
R2,503 Discovery Miles 25 030 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Investigating Sexual Assault Cases, Second Edition serves as an essential textbook for courses in investigating rape and sexual assault. As with the first edition, this second edition includes the latest research and techniques in coverage of victimology, offender typology, investigative techniques, interviewing, and legal implications. This new, second edition includes chapters on child victims and molestation, sexual homicides as potentially staged events, grooming, interviewing techniques, and same-sex, elder, and special populations as victims of sexual assault. The book fills a current void in the body of literature on the topics of rape and sex crime investigation. Many previous writings, while informative, do not address all the investigative processes necessary for an investigation to be thorough and complete. By providing a fresh approach to the topic, the author aims to augment those writings and, ultimately, improving the reader' awareness by being much more attuned to the needs of-and taking investigative cures from-the victim. Key Features: Outlines the complete investigative process for sexual assault cases, from evidence collection and interviews to court and legal proceedings Addresses victims and victimology, offender typology, the importance of the investigative interviewing process, and working with attorneys Includes new chapters on grooming, sexual homicides, SAFE examinations, and child-specific interviewing techniques Added coverage looks at same-sex crimes, crimes against men, elder victims, and assault of vulnerable populations In addition to being used in coursework in Forensic Science and Criminal justice programs, Investigating Sexual Assault Cases, Second Edition will serve as an essential reference for police detectives, criminal and death investigators, legal professionals, sexual assault nurses, and those who provide health, and mental health, services to populations experiencing sexual assault.

The Psychology of Extreme Violence - A Case Study Approach to Serial Homicide, Mass Shooting, School Shooting and Lone-actor... The Psychology of Extreme Violence - A Case Study Approach to Serial Homicide, Mass Shooting, School Shooting and Lone-actor Terrorism (Paperback)
Clare Allely
R1,154 Discovery Miles 11 540 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Featuring a unique overview of the different forms of extreme violence, this book considers the psychology of extreme violence alongside a variety of contributing factors, such as brain abnormalities in homicide offenders. Featuring several contemporary real-world case studies, this book offers insight into the psychology of serial homicide offenders, mass shooters, school shooters and lone-actor terrorists. The main purpose of this book is not to glorify or condemn the actions of these individuals, but to attempt to explain the motivations and circumstances that inspire such acts of extreme violence. By adopting a detailed case study approach, it aims to increase our understanding of the specific motivations and psychological factors underlying extreme violence. Using nontechnical language, this book is the ideal companion for students, researchers, and forensic practitioners interested in the multidisciplinary nature of extreme violence. This book will also be of interest to students taking courses on homicide, mass shooting, school shooting, terrorism, forensic psychology and criminology and criminal justice.

Aggression and Violence - Genetic, Neurobiological, and Biosocial Perspectives (Hardcover): David M. Stoff, Robert B. Cairns Aggression and Violence - Genetic, Neurobiological, and Biosocial Perspectives (Hardcover)
David M. Stoff, Robert B. Cairns
R1,219 Discovery Miles 12 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Conceived at a time when biological research on aggression and violence was drawn into controversy because of sociopolitical questions about its study, this volume provides an up-to-date account of recent biological studies performed -- mostly on humans. A group of scientists recognized the importance of freedom of inquiry and deemed it vital to address the most promising biological research in the field. The focus on biological mechanisms is not meant to imply that biological variables are paramount as a determinant of violence. Rather, biological variables operate in conjunction with other variables contributing to aggression or violence, and a complete understanding of this phenomenon requires consideration of all influences bearing on it.
This book will familiarize readers with the rapidly growing and increasingly significant body of knowledge on the biological bases of human antisocial, aggressive, and violent behaviors. The editors concentrated on biological influences that support the basic physiological and biochemical processes of the brain and did not cover those biological influences that impact on the health of the individual such as head injury, pregnancy and birth complications, diet, and exposure to lead and other toxins. They focused on biological influences to illuminate their role in the complex behavioral phenomenon of violence.
Three different approaches to the biological study of human antisocial, aggressive, and violent behaviors are represented -- genetic, neurobiological, and biosocial. Representing each of these three approaches, individual chapters from investigators in psychobiology, biological psychiatry, and basic-clinical neurosciences address the most recent experimental findings, methods, theory, and common misconceptions in the biological study of aggression and violence. The areas of primary focus are behavior and molecular genetics, neurochemistry and hormones, neuroimaging, psychophysiology and developmental psychobiology. Generally speaking, investigators following these different approaches have experience in different scientific backgrounds, select different methods, generate different analyses, employ different conceptual definitions for some of the same terms, and assume a different philosophical stance in attempting to explain violence. Nevertheless, all are united in their efforts to understand the biological underpinnings of violence. This book then assumes a comprehensive approach wherein different levels of analysis and different approaches inform each other. It is clear from the studies reported that aggression and violence are multidetermined phenomena and understanding them requires an interdisciplinary approach spanning economic, sociopolitical, psychological, sociological, and criminological as well as biomedical considerations. Nature (biology) and nurture (experience, context) are fundamentally inseparable in explaining aggression and violence; biology may affect experience or context, but experience or context also influences biology. Both need to be studied in a search for explanations of this phenomena.

Firearms - Global Perspectives on Consequences, Crime and Control (Paperback): Helen Poole, Simon Sneddon Firearms - Global Perspectives on Consequences, Crime and Control (Paperback)
Helen Poole, Simon Sneddon
R1,213 Discovery Miles 12 130 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

- take a global view of the firearms problem - combines criminal justice, policing, legal, development perspectives on firearms. - case studies, activities and information on online resources makes the topic accessible and engaging for students.

Brutal School Ties - The Parktown Boys Tragedy (Paperback): Sam Cowen Brutal School Ties - The Parktown Boys Tragedy (Paperback)
Sam Cowen 1
R305 R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Save R43 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

In September 2018, Collan Rex, former water polo coach at Parktown Boys High, was found guilty of 144 charges of sexual assault and sentenced to 23 years in prison. He had molested and choked a boarding house full of school boys into silence and shame, leaving behind a trail of broken lives. His response in court? It'd been done to him, in the same way, at the same school.

Now the victims, the parents and the abuser tell their stories.

The Dynamics of Aggression - Biological and Social Processes in Dyads and Groups (Hardcover): Michael Potegal, John F. Knutson The Dynamics of Aggression - Biological and Social Processes in Dyads and Groups (Hardcover)
Michael Potegal, John F. Knutson
R3,938 Discovery Miles 39 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Aggression usually involves a sequence of behaviors, reflecting escalations and de-escalations in the form or intensity of the actions taken, which play out over time. This book provides a context in which social and biological research on the aggressive behaviors of human and non-human subjects, interacting in dyads or groups, can be compared and integrated. Implicit in this juxtaposition is the major question of whether general principles governing the dynamics of aggression within and between episodes may be discerned. Aggressive behavior is described at different levels of analysis in humans and a number of other animal species. Three basic views of aggression dynamics become apparent:
* The economic interpretation: Aggression will be escalated when it pays one of the combatants to do so or, more generally, when the potential benefits outweigh the risks. Decisions to escalate or de-escalate are part of a calculated "strategy," in one or another sense. This interpretation is formalized within game theoretic models as applied to animal conflicts and to international conflicts, within the chapters of this text.
* The psychological process interpretation: Emphasis is placed on psychological/physiological processes within the individual. The chapters stress the importance of acute emotional states of anger and aggressive arousal and argue the role of peripheral sympathetic activation, while proposing a central neural mechanism. Children escalating their tantrums, adult humans and animals of other species intensifying their interpersonal conflicts, national leaders going to a war footing all appear to suffer a narrowing of attention and progressive failure of cognitive function under the intensifying stress of conflict. Perhaps these changes in attention, sensory and cognitive functions, and risk taking reflect a "commitment to aggression" which is necessary for organisms to engage in potentially dangerous and painful encounters.
* The emergent process interpretation: Escalation emerges in a spontaneous and dynamic way as the actions of one participant elicit reactions from the other(s).

On Violence and on Violence Against Women (Paperback): Jacqueline Rose On Violence and on Violence Against Women (Paperback)
Jacqueline Rose
R526 R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Save R125 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I'm Not Scared...I'm Prepared! Activity and Idea Book - Because I Know All about Alice (Paperback): Julia Cook I'm Not Scared...I'm Prepared! Activity and Idea Book - Because I Know All about Alice (Paperback)
Julia Cook; Illustrated by Michelle Hazelwood Hyde; Contributions by Lisa J Crane
R271 R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Save R51 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Murder in Mayberry - Greed, Death and Mayhem in a Small Town (Paperback): Mary Kinney Branson, Jack Branson Murder in Mayberry - Greed, Death and Mayhem in a Small Town (Paperback)
Mary Kinney Branson, Jack Branson
R218 R183 Discovery Miles 1 830 Save R35 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A true-crime shocker of a Southern town shattered by a brutal murder.
As seen on Americaas Most Wanted.
Crime never happened in a town like Madisonville, Kentucky. Thatas why the vicious slaughter of one of its beloved female citizens was so stunning. Even more so was the identity of the killer whose flight from the law made him one of the FBIas Most Wanted.

The Psychological Effects of War and Violence on Children (Hardcover): Lewis A. Leavitt, Nathan A. Fox The Psychological Effects of War and Violence on Children (Hardcover)
Lewis A. Leavitt, Nathan A. Fox
R3,942 Discovery Miles 39 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The outgrowth of a conference planned as a response to the need for researchers and clinicians to develop integrated plans for addressing the psychological trauma of children exposed to violence, this volume's goals are:
* to summarize research on the subject with particular emphasis on the Gulf War;
* to use this information to formulate an outline of what current knowledge suggests are reasonable approaches to public mental health intervention; and
* to develop an agenda for future research necessary for improving clinical efforts in varying international conflicts.
A significant collection of diverse perspectives attending to a diversity of cultural and political contexts, the contributors offer many conclusions about important dimensions for analyzing the effects of violence on children. Suggesting informed approaches to public mental health efforts which can be implemented, the work presented here directs attention to the need for interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers and clinicians to better understand the effects of exposure to violence on the psychological well being of children and the optimal modes of remediation on individual, family, and community levels.

Violence All Around (Hardcover): John Sifton Violence All Around (Hardcover)
John Sifton
R890 Discovery Miles 8 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A human rights lawyer travels to hot zones around the globe, before and after the September 11 attacks, to document abuses committed by warlords, terrorist groups, and government counterterrorism forces. Whether reporting on al Qaeda safe houses, the mechanics of the Pentagon's smartest bombs, his interviews with politicians and ordinary civilians, or his own brush with death outside Kabul, John Sifton wants to help us understand violence-what it is, and how we think and speak about it. For the human rights community, the global war on terror brought unprecedented challenges. Of special concern were the secret detention centers operated by the CIA as it expanded into a paramilitary force, and the harsh treatment of prisoners throughout Iraq and Afghanistan. In drafting legal memoranda that made domestic prosecution for these crimes impossible, Sifton argues, the United States possessed not only the detainees but the law itself. Sifton recounts his efforts to locate secret prisons and reflects on the historical development of sanctioned military or police violence-from hand-to-hand combat to the use of drones-and the likelihood that technology will soon enable completely automated killing. Sifton is equally concerned to examine what people have meant by nonviolent social change, and he asks whether pure nonviolence is ever possible. To invoke rights is to invoke the force to uphold them, he reminds us. Ultimately, advocates for human rights can only shame the world into better behavior, and their work may involve advocating the very violence they deplore.

Critical Mass - Understanding and Fixing the Social Roots of Mass Shootings in the United States (Paperback): Dinur Blum,... Critical Mass - Understanding and Fixing the Social Roots of Mass Shootings in the United States (Paperback)
Dinur Blum, Christian Jaworski
R1,127 Discovery Miles 11 270 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book examines social patterns in 2,000 mass shootings in the United States between 2013 through 2020. While mass shootings are often described as psychological, the authors show that there are social factors that produce the anger needed to commit a mass shooting. These factors are fairly common and can be addressed to stem the anger earlier. The factors include chronic poverty, sudden unemployment, relationship problems, domestic violence, social isolation, and alcohol. Common social strains can metastasize and be lethally dangerous. By understanding the social factors, we can reduce the anger and frustration people feel that would drive them to killing others.

Murder Town, USA - Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington (Paperback): Yasser Arafat Payne, Brooklynn K.... Murder Town, USA - Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington (Paperback)
Yasser Arafat Payne, Brooklynn K. Hitchens, Darryl L Chambers
R1,001 Discovery Miles 10 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Far too many poor Black communities struggle with gun violence and homicide. The result has been the unnatural contortion of Black families and the inter-generational perpetuation of social chaos and untimely death. Young people are repeatedly ripped away from life by violence, while many men are locked away in prisons. In neighborhoods like those of Wilmington, Delaware, residents routinely face the pressures of violence, death, and incarceration. Murder Town, USA is thus a timely ethnography with an innovative structure: the authors helped organize fifteen residents formerly involved with the streets and/or the criminal justice system to document the relationship between structural opportunity and experiences with violence in Wilmington's Eastside and Southbridge neighborhoods.  Earlier scholars offered rich cultural analysis of violence in low-income Black communities, and yet this literature has mostly conceptualized violence through frameworks of personal responsibility or individual accountability. And even if acknowledging the pressure of structural inequality, most earlier researchers describe violence as the ultimate result of some moral failing, a propensity for crime, and the notion of helplessness. Instead, in Murder Town USA, Payne, Hitchens, and Chamber, along with their collaborative team of street ethnographers, instead offer a radical re-conceptualization of violence in low-income Black communities by describing the penchant for violence and involvement in crime overall to be a logical, "resilient" response to the perverse context of structural inequality.

Parricide and Violence against Parents - A Cross-Cultural View across Past and Present (Paperback): Phillip Shon, Raisa Maria... Parricide and Violence against Parents - A Cross-Cultural View across Past and Present (Paperback)
Phillip Shon, Raisa Maria Toivo, Marianna Muravyeva
R1,184 Discovery Miles 11 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Parricide and Violence Against Parents takes a historical and criminological approach to the research on parricide and violence against parents, placing the research in the context of social development from the 1500s to contemporary society, and giving a global overview and comparison. The book examines parricide and violence against parents as historically and culturally sensitive phenomena. It offers evidence on a seemingly rare subject from different eras, areas, and cultures, and then uses the cross-disciplinary data to produce a new, systematic insight for the reader. Case studies shift the discussion from the contemporary focus on adolescent to parent abuse, to examining the sources of conflict during life cycles of parents and their offspring. A historical approach illuminates the variations in conflicts between parents and their offspring that are shaped by the life stages of the victims and offenders themselves across time. The book argues that parental authority has been marked by property ownership and tax paying responsibilities throughout history. The continued possession of property resulted in power, the reluctance to part with it, becoming a notable source of conflict across generations within families. Parental authority was protected by means of heavy penalties and punishments and didactic teachings in almost every society at every stage of historical development. It was also challenged constantly by children as a part of their coming into adulthood. The abuse of parents has often been connected to situations where adult children were prevented from gaining the amount of independence appropriate to their position in life. This led to disputes over authority and the legitimate grounds for that authority. Offering an insight into complicated and interconnected histories of generational conflicts and how they affect modern families in different parts of the world, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology, history of crime, history of the family, family violence, homicide studies, gender studies, history of emotions, political violence, and social work.

Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Black World Literature and Film (Paperback): Naomi Nkealah, Obioma Nnaemeka Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Black World Literature and Film (Paperback)
Naomi Nkealah, Obioma Nnaemeka
R1,185 Discovery Miles 11 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book investigates how the intersection between gendered violence and human rights is depicted and engaged with in Africana literature and films. The rich and multifarious range of film and literature emanating from Africa and the diaspora provides a fascinating lens through which we can understand the complex consequences of gendered violence on the lives of women, children and minorities. Contributors to this volume examine the many ways in which gendered violence mirrors, expresses, projects and articulates the larger phenomenon of human rights violations in Africa and the African diaspora and how, in turn, the discourse of human rights informs the ways in which we articulate, interrogate, conceptualise and interpret gendered violence in literature and film. The book also shines a light on the linguistic contradictions and ambiguities in the articulation of gendered violence in private spaces and war. This book will be essential reading for scholars, critics, feminists, teachers and students seeking solid grounding in exploring gendered violence and human rights in theory and practice.

An Honourable Thief - A must-read historical crime thriller (Paperback): Douglas Skelton An Honourable Thief - A must-read historical crime thriller (Paperback)
Douglas Skelton
R305 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R61 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Introducing Jonas Flynt. Gambler. Thief. Killer. Man of honour.'Fast, furious and with a glint of gallows humour, this is high-octane historical fiction' Daily Mail 'Swashbuckling action against a vivid historical backdrop. I loved this book' Ian Rankin 'High adventure meets espionage thriller as Jonas Flynt battles the tide of history and the deadly secrets of his own past...' D. V. Bishop, author of City of Vengeance 1715. Jonas Flynt, ex-soldier and reluctant member of the Company of Rogues, a shady intelligence group run by ruthless spymaster Nathaniel Charters, is ordered to recover a missing document. Its contents could prove devastating in the wrong hands. On her deathbed, the late Queen Anne may have promised the nation to her half-brother James, the Old Pretender, rather than the new king, George I. But the will has been lost. It may decide the fate of the nation. The crown must recover it at all costs. The trail takes Jonas from the dark and dangerous streets of London to an Edinburgh in chaos. He soon realises there are others on the hunt, and becomes embroiled in a long overdue family reunion, a jail break and a brutal street riot. When secrets finally come to light, about the crown and about his own past, Jonas will learn that some truths, once discovered, can never be untold... An atmospheric and utterly compelling blend of crime, history and thriller, to delight fans of S. J. Parris, Andrew Taylor and C. J. Sansom. Praise for An Honourable Thief 'Reads like a genuine eighteenth century spy novel. I see a long future for Jonas Flynt' Ambrose Parry, author of The Way of All Flesh 'Anyone who enjoys a good historical mystery and likes an edgy, charismatic protagonist is going to love the adventures of Douglas Skelton's new hero, Jonas Flynt' S.G. MacLean, author of The Seeker 'An absolute triumph ... Five stars from me, and I look forward to reading more of Jonas's adventures' James Oswald, Sunday Times bestselling author 'Historical crime fiction at its absolute best. I loved it!' Marion Todd, author of the Detective Clare Mackay series 'Pitch-perfect stuff. Like all great historical novels you'll feel you're there! This is a departure for Skelton, who seems born to write high-end historical fiction' Denzil Meyrick, author of the DCI Daley thrillers 'Uniquely combines a page-turning thriller with a perfectly evoked sense of time and place. Powerful stuff from a master of his craft' Craig Russell, author of Hyde 'Skelton's mastery of time and place inhabited with richly drawn characters is a delight. It held me to the last tantalising page' David Gilman, author of The Englishman 'Jonas Flynt is one of those characters you'll be rooting for from the very first chapter ... it looks like Skelton has found a new home writing first-class historical fiction' Alison Belsham, author of The Tattoo Thief 'This is a fascinating, totally engrossing historical novel. Flynt is a most attractive, three-dimensional character and the same is true of the world he moves through. A brilliant, most enjoyable read' Paul Doherty, author of The Nightingale Gallery 'A cracking historical drama with breathless pacing and knuckle-chewing tension, all shot through with Skelton's deft characterisation and flashes of pitch-black humour. The perfect read to lose yourself in' Neil Broadfoot, author of Falling Fast 'A compelling tale of justice and vengeance, of intrigue and plotting, all centred around a flawed 18th century Jack Reacher' Morgan Cry, author of Thirty-One Bones

Intervening With Assaulted Women - Current Theory, Research, and Practice (Hardcover): Barbara Pressman, Gary Cameron, Michael... Intervening With Assaulted Women - Current Theory, Research, and Practice (Hardcover)
Barbara Pressman, Gary Cameron, Michael Rothery
R1,120 Discovery Miles 11 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Domestic violence against women is a problem that cries out for informed discussion and effective treatments. "Intervening With Assaulted Women" is a definitive response to those cries.
The authors of each of the chapters included in this collection were selected for their ability to address a different issue related to the abuse of women. As a result, a wide range of concerns are confronted and discussed in this book, among them, the socio-political underpinnings of violence against women, the early childhood learning of assaultive men, and the traumatic impact of abuse on women and children.
As for possible treatments, a current and uniquely comprehensive range of responses is described and evaluated, making this an excellent text for both front-line and classroom settings.

Angry Men and the Women Who Love Them - Breaking the Cycle of Physical and Emotional Abuse (Paperback, Revised edition): Paul... Angry Men and the Women Who Love Them - Breaking the Cycle of Physical and Emotional Abuse (Paperback, Revised edition)
Paul Hegstrom
R363 R300 Discovery Miles 3 000 Save R63 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the earliest years of his marriage, Paul Hegstrom handled his problems and frustrations the only way he knew how: with fists and fury. Talking about the problem only intensified his rage. Going into the Christian ministry didn't help either, the guilt merely magnified his despair. Facing a charge of attempted murder and a prison term, Hegstrom got the wake-up call he needed. With professional help and an intense struggle with spiritual issues, he began the lengthy process of healing and recovery. Through a fascinating, yet thorough examination of the psychological components of various types of abuse, along with true examples from his own life and others, Hegstrom points the way back to wholeness and freedom. An invaluable aid for the man who batters, the woman who feels trapped, and the pastor, counselor, or friend who desperately wants to help them both, Angry Men and the Women Who Love Them offers straight answers for those willing to overcome the cycle of violence. The revised and updated edition includes a new chapter that discusses the physiological and psychological changes in the brain when abuse occurs.

Against Youth Violence - A Social Harm Perspective (Hardcover): Luke Billingham, Keir Irwin-Rogers Against Youth Violence - A Social Harm Perspective (Hardcover)
Luke Billingham, Keir Irwin-Rogers
R2,234 Discovery Miles 22 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For many children and young people, Britain is a harmful society in which to grow up. This book contextualizes the violence that occurs between a small number of young people within a wider perspective on social harm. Aimed at academics, youth workers and policy makers, the book presents a new way to make sense of this pressing social problem. The authors also propose measures to substantially improve the lives of Britain's young people in areas ranging from the early years to youth services and the criminal justice system.

We Are Proud Boys - How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism (Hardcover): Andy B Campbell We Are Proud Boys - How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism (Hardcover)
Andy B Campbell
R757 R627 Discovery Miles 6 270 Save R130 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Sex Offender Register - Politics, Policy and Public Opinion (Paperback): Terry Thomas, Daniel Marshall The Sex Offender Register - Politics, Policy and Public Opinion (Paperback)
Terry Thomas, Daniel Marshall
R1,334 Discovery Miles 13 340 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Sex Offender Register examines the origins, history, structure and legalities of the UK sex offender register, and explores how political and public opinion has influenced the direction the policy of registration has taken. Delving into the origins of the UK sex offender register and how the registration policy has evolved, this book provides an understanding of the register and its contribution to public protection while attempting to see the register as a policy that has grown and developed and as having an organic life of its own. The sex offender register is designed as a form of public protection rather than a punishment, requiring offenders to notify the police of their circumstances and to accept a degree of offender management from the police. The book: * puts the development of the register in its political, social and ethical context * considers the position of children and young people as offenders * outlines the movement of registered offenders across international borders * analyses how offenders can be removed from the register * explores how other countries in the UK manage sex offenders through registers * asks questions about the efficacy of the register and what contribution it makes to public protection * looks at specific aspects of registration including the management of information * delves into the experience of life on the register * examines the influence of public opinion * discusses the role of the police as custodians of the register and as offender managers. Exploring the different pressures brought to bear on the register, this book provides an authoritative starting point for police officers, social workers, probation officers, magistrates, students of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Policing, and the general reader wanting to understand where the UK sex offender register originated from and how it operates today.

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