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.

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.

Written by leading experts in the field, this timely collection highlights current strategies and thinking in relation to prevention of sexual violence and critically considers the limitations of these frameworks. Combining psychological, criminological, sociological and legal perspectives, it explores academic, practitioner and survivor points of view. It addresses broad themes, from cultures of sexual harassment to the role of media in oversexualising women and girls, as well as specific issues including violence against children and older people. For researchers, practitioners and students alike, this is an invaluable resource that maps new approaches for practice and prevention.

This is the first book to explore coercion as a pathway into crime for co-offending women. Using newspaper articles and case and court files, it analyses four cases of women co-accused of a crime with their partner who suggested that coercive techniques had influenced their involvement in the offending. Considering the legal and social construction of coercion, this fascinating book concludes by exploring the implications for public understanding of coercion and female offending more broadly.