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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > Sexual abuse
This heart-wrenching memoir from Toni Maguire tells the deeply
moving story of an idyllic childhood that masked a terrible truth.
Underneath her mother's gentility and her father's roguish charm
lay horrifying secrets, which eventually led to their only child's
near destruction.
The first time her father made an improper advance on Toni, she
was six years old. Her father warned her not to tell her mother, or
anyone else, because they would blame her and wouldn't love her any
more. It had to remain our secret.
When she finally built up the courage to tell her mother what
had happened, she was told never to speak of the matter again. With
no one to turn to, isolated and alone in rural Ireland, the abuse
continued unhindered.
At fourteen Toni fell pregnant by her father, and when her state
was discovered she was made to have a late abortion which almost
killed her. The truth of her childhood could no longer be kept
hidden but, just as her father predicted, Toni found herself judged
and rejected by her family, teachers and friends. The blame and
anger she was treated with only worsened when her father was sent
to prison as a result of his actions. This is the compelling story
of her struggle to put the ghost of her childhood to rest, and
emerge ultimately triumphant."
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The Hammer
(Paperback)
Adelaide Ivanova; Translated by Chris Daniels
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Tall in the face of Adversity tells the story of S J Briggs. A man
who grew up from humble beginnings within a military family. He
endured years of child abuse from his schoolteacher and Peter
Righton, founder of PIE, Paedophile Information Exchange in the
1970s. Briggs enlisted in the army, was wounded in action, living
homeless in London, built a business and finally faced his abuser
in courts forty years after the incident. Brutally honest, Briggs'
unbiased account will bring tears to the eyes of readers. It is a
tale about the incredible bravery of a soldier and the scars he
bore for years as a child abused by people that should have
protected him.
What motivates sexual abusers? Why are so few caught? Drawing on
the stories of abusers, Anna C. Salter shows that sexual predators
use sophisticated deception techniques and rely on misconceptions
surrounding them to evade discovery. Arguing that even the most
knowledgeable among us can be fooled, Salter dispels the myths
about sexual predators and gives us the tools to protect our
families and ourselves.
Soraya was a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was
given the honour of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel
Gaddafi, "the Guide," on a visit he was making the following week.
This one meeting - a presentation of flowers, a pat on the head
from Gaddafi - changed Soraya's life forever. Soon afterwards, she
was summoned to Bab al-Azizia, Gaddafi's palatial compound near
Tripoli, where she joined a number of young women who were
violently abused, raped and degraded by Gaddafi. Heartwrenchingly
tragic but ultimately redemptive, Soraya's story is the first of
many that are just now beginning to be heard. In Gaddafi's Harem,
Le Monde special correspondent Annick Cojean gives a voice to
Soraya's story, and supplements her investigation into Gaddafi's
abuses of power through interviews with other women who were abused
by Gaddafi, and those who were involved with his regime, including
a driver who ferried women to the compound, and Gaddafi's former
Chief of Security. Gaddafi's Harem is an astonishing portrait of
the essence of dictatorship: how power gone unchecked can wreak
havoc on the most intensely personal level, as well as a document
of great significance to the new Libya.
Does your partner blame you for his or her own problems?
Does your partner humiliate you, especially in front of others?
Is your partner impossible to please?
Are you convinced something is wrong with you?
Are you too ashamed to admit you are being abused?
In Escaping Emotional Abuse, Beverly Engel, world-renowned therapist
and expert in emotional abuse, exposes techniques an abuser uses to
break your spirit and gain control - and guides you in how to free
yourself from the shame that can keep you from the life, and the love,
that you deserve.
By using your deepest fears against you, the abuser strips you of
self-esteem, dignity, and humanity - making you feel unworthy and
utterly powerless to escape. But you possess a potent tool with which
to combat shame: self-compassion. In these pages, Engel shows you how
to access it. Using her highly effective Shame Reduction Program, she
helps you jumpstart the process of recovery by offering specific steps
to help you heal and regain self-confidence.
An invaluable resource for both men and women who suffer from emotional
abuse, as well as therapists and advocates, Escaping Emotional Abuse is
a supportive, nurturing guide for anyone seeking to break the chains of
shame, and gain the emotional freedom to create healthier, lasting
relationships.
Much has already been published to better understand the problems
associated with human trafficking such as why it occurs, where it
occurs, and the horrendous tolls it takes on individuals and
society. However, further study on the latest innovative ideas,
research, and real-world efforts towards the detection and
prevention of human trafficking analysis as well consideration of
the success or failure of the current approaches is required in
order to understand the necessary future improvements and how to
best achieve them. Paths to the Prevention and Detection of Human
Trafficking presents innovative and potentially transformational
concepts and research results that discuss current, or developing,
approaches that address the identification, reporting, and
prevention of human trafficking, including important identified
enablers of trafficking. Covering a range of topics such as machine
learning and child exploitation, this reference work is ideal for
policymakers, government officials, hospital administrators,
researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors,
and students.
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Grafting
(Paperback)
Amy Lundquist
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R368
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**THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED BBC DRAMA 'THREE
GIRLS' ** What do they find attractive about me? An underage girl
who just lies there, sobbing, looking up at them...as they come to
me one by one. This is the shocking true story of how a young girl
from Rochdale came to be Girl A - the key witness in the trial of
Britain's most notorious child sex ring. Girl A was just 14 when
she was groomed by a group of nine Asian men. After being lured
into their circle with free gifts, she was plied with alcohol and
systematically abused. She was just one of up to fifty girls to be
'passed around' by the gang. The girls were all under-16 and forced
to have sex with as many as twenty men in one night. When details
emerged a nation was outraged and asked how these sickening events
came to pass. And now, the girl at the very centre of the storm
reveals the heartbreaking truth.
Defining Sexual Misconduct investigates shifts in media coverage of
sexual violence and details significant changes in public discourse
about sexual harm. In 2015, the New York Times ran just a single
headline with the term "sexual misconduct." Three years later, it
ran scores of such headlines, averaging more than one per week, and
expanded coverage across other media organizations followed. This
shift in coverage is reflective of significant changes in public
discourse about sexual harm helping to hold some perpetrators
accountable for their behaviour and paved the path for #MeToo and
related movements against sexual abuse and harm to receive national
and global attention. In Defining Sexual Misconduct, Stacey Hannem
and Christopher Schneider trace contemporary shifts in power in
relation to the increased recognition and censure of sexual
misconduct and the ways in which the shifting social landscape is
communicated in the coverage of sexual misconduct in media. Hannem
and Schneider also examine the contemporary dynamics of public
accusations and their relationship to more formal criminal justice
processes, as well as the implications for the stigmatization of
alleged abusers and public response to alleged victims. Since
behaviours categorized as sexual misconduct may not all be defined
as crimes, or punishable through legal means, social censure and
cancel culture often stand as proxy forms of punishment, and the
authors reflect on what the pursuit of justice might look like in
this extra-legal context.
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