The Language of Abuse (Late Medieval Europe)
Drawing on a wide range of legal and literary sources, this book offers a comprehensive investigation into the acceptability of violence in marriage at a time when social expectations of gender and...
View ArticleIntimate Partner Violence Prevention and Intervention: The Risk Assessment...
This book focuses on the importance of assessing risk in domestic violence cases to prevent and reduce its escalation into homicide (so called uxoricide). Spousal killers in a substantial number of...
View ArticleEncyclopedia of Domestic Violence
The Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence is a modern reference from the leading international scholars in domestic violence research. This ground-breaking project has created the first ever publication of...
View ArticleIndian Feminisms: Law Patriarchies and Feminism in India
Contributing to recent debates on feminism, and Indian feminism in particular, this book assesses how feminists in India have impacted legal and social debates on women’s rights, violence against women...
View ArticlePractical Aspects of Rape Investigation: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Fourth...
U.S. Justice Department statistics indicate that only 26 percent of all rapes or attempted rapes are reported to law enforcement officials, and only slightly more than half of these result in the...
View ArticleIn Honor of Fadime: Murder and Shame
In 2002 young Fadime Sahindal was brutally murdered by her own father. She belonged to a family of Kurdish immigrants who had lived in Sweden for almost two decades. But Fadime’s relationship with a...
View ArticleBut He Says He Loves Me: How to Avoid Being Trapped in a Manipulative...
Effective and powerful, this chilling exposure of the psychology behind emotionally abusive relationships proves to be an invaluable resource for women in the dating pool or those questioning their...
View ArticleLicensing Parents: Family, State, and Child Maltreatment
This book examines the negative power that child maltreatment has on individuals and society ethically and politically, while analyzing the positive power that parental love and healthy families have....
View ArticleA Philosophical Investigation of Rape: The Making and Unmaking of the...
This book offers a critical feminist perspective on the widely debated topic of transitional justice and forgiveness. Louise Du Toit examines the phenomenon of rape with a feminist philosophical...
View ArticleRestorative Justice and Violence Against Women (Interpersonal Violence Series)
Despite significant accomplishments over the past 35 years, antiviolence activists know that justice for most abused women remains elusive. Most victims do not call the police or seek help from the...
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