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This book offers a social movement perspective on family violence, framing the discovery of abuse toward women and men as a natural development flowing out of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The problem of women's violence is one that has remained largely ignored compared to the mountain of research on men's violence toward women.

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What really hurts America's children and what we can do about it.

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Because women are more likely to seek professional help, and because they are more likely to be the victims of abuse by people in positions of power, women who do seek professional assistance may end up being victims of sexual exploitation by the very people from whom they seek help.

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This volume was prepared under the impetus of desperate need in academic institutions and clinical and social services for a comprehensive introduction to the diverse theories about child abuse and neglect etiologies.

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Cathy and John married 20 years ago. Over the years, angry fights developed, followed by verbal and gestured threats of violence, followed by actual physical attacks and injuries. This work introduces us to the incidence of "intimate partner violence," abuse that takes place behind closed doors inside marriages and other "loving" relationships.

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Their research spotlights neighborhood-based child protection systems and provides a comprehensive approach for creating procedures that meaningfully address child maltreatment.

The volume discusses the challenges of moving toward such a system within the current legal, political, and cross-cultural contexts of child protection.

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In the past 20 years, the victims' rights movement has gathered momentum, often succeeding in its attempts to turn the tables on laws and legislation that traditionally loaded the scales of justice in favor of criminal defendants.

Victims' Rights explores this movement and its implications in detail for the first time.

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According to the Latin American political analysts and scholars who contributed to this volume, free elections during the 1980s largely served to disguise rather than diminish institutional repressiveness and the reality of economic, political, and social disintegration that is occurring in many Latin American countries.

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The author examines the American people's history of taking the law into their own hands and analyzes the use of private power in three eras of American politics - Colonial, Populist and Progressive - asserting that it was crucial in creating, distributing and maintaining social values.

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This comprehensive, evidence-based examination looks at violence and security across the entire spectrum of education, from preschool through college.

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Under the aegis of the two grandes dames of international studies in psychology, 23 experts examine violence in all of its multivarious forms around the world. The second group of essays discuss violence involving childrenincest, trauma, delinquency, school violence, and the death penalty for youths.

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From the popular video game Mortal Kombat to reality TV, this book offers a candid compilation of the history, problems, impacts, and solutions relating to media violence.

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Using insider accounts, this title presents the underlying causes and meanings of violence. Interviews with the police, the perpetrators, and the victims of violence depict the complex emotions that surround the perpetration and resolution of crime. It shows that a new approach is needed to deal with nihilism and escalating hostility.

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Using insider accounts, this title presents the underlying causes and meanings of violence. Interviews with the police, the perpetrators, and the victims of violence depict the complex emotions that surround the perpetration and resolution of crime. It shows that a new approach is needed to deal with nihilism and escalating hostility.

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Tells the story of a migrant family enduring the harshness of the migrant fields and their abusive father.

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Seeking answers to questions about crime and violence in America, the author of this text examines the country's fascination with violence, and why Jekyll and Hyde and the werewolf myth have such appeal in North American culture. He concludes that on-screen violence reflects deep insecurities.

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Seeking answers to questions about crime and violence in America, the author of this text examines the country's fascination with violence, and why Jekyll and Hyde and the werewolf myth have such appeal in North American culture. He concludes that on-screen violence reflects deep insecurities.

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A riveting expos of child abuse in America and how the newest breed of pediatricians determines what happened, why, and at whose hands.

Although more than one million children are abused each year in the United States, child abuse often remains a secret to family members, professionals, and politicians who neither see nor understand it.

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Explores the warning signs and motivations for murders committed by teenagers with no history of violence. The author asserts that understanding these patterns of behaviour can lead to a less violent society in the future.

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Explores key factors that cause teenagers to join youth gangs and ways teens, parents, teachers, and communities can prevent the tyranny of these gangs.

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Violence of any kind is hard for most people to understand, but crimes against children and crimes committed by children are perhaps the most difficult to comprehend.

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Your Feelings Matter! reassures young children that what they are feeling about domestic violence is okay AND important. This book offers a guided questions page to elicit discussion and assess a child's perspective on domestic violence. Your Feelings Matter! is equipped with therapeutic activities to assist with identification of physical sensations and teach relaxation skills.

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"Zero tolerance" began as a prohibition against guns, but quickly expanded into a frenzy of punishment and tougher disciplinary measures in American schools. This text presents a passionate, multifaceted argument against the militarization of US schools.