Family & Relationships : Abuse

Locking up men who beat their partners sounds like a tremendous improvement over the days when men could hit women with impunity and women fearing for their lives could expect no help from authorities. But does our system of requiring the arrest, prosecution, and incarceration of abusers lessen domestic violence or help battered women? In this already controversial but vitally important book, we learn that the criminal justice system may actually be making the problem of domestic violence worse. Looking honestly at uncomfortable facts, Linda Mills makes the case for a complete overhaul and presents a promising alternative. The evidence turns up some surprising facts about the complexities of intimate abuse, facts that run against mainstream assumptions: The current system robs battered women of what power they do hold. Perhaps as many as half of women in abusive relationships stay in them for strong cultural, economic, religious, or emotional reasons. Jailing their partners often makes their situations worse. Women are at least as physically violent and emotionally aggressive as are men toward women, and women's aggression is often central to the dynamic of intimate abuse. Informed by compelling evidence, personal experience, and what abused women themselves say about their needs, Mills proposes no less than a fundamentally new system. Addressing the real dynamics of intimate abuse and incorporating proven methods of restorative justice, Mills's approach focuses on healing and transformation rather than shame or punishment. Already the subject of heated controversy, Insult to Injury offers a desperately needed and powerful means for using what we know to reduce violence in our homes. more...

Price: $42.00

Intimate partner violence is a challenging problem that health professionals encounter on a daily basis. This volume thoroughly compiles the current knowledge and health science and provides a strong foundation for students, educators, clinicians, and researchers on prevention, assessment, and intervention. more...

Price: $98.50

Introducing ANOVA and ANCOVA provides a guide to the use of the General Linear Modeling (GLM) approach to the analysis of variance and covariance. more...

Price: $56.95

“Sibling bond is at the core of Jesus Land, Scheeres’s gritty, heart-wrenching memoir. . . . A lesser writer would have buckled under the weight of this story. . . . A page turner. . . . Heart-stopping and enraging. . . . There is much praise, these days, for the detached, quietly elegant narrative. But there is little mention of the power a well-tended rage can bring to a good story. . . . Focused, justified and without a trace of self-pity. Shot through with poignancy.” —New York Times Book Review more...

Price: $14.00

Esta publicación, La Ruta Crítica que Siguen las Mujeres Afectadas por la Violencia Intrafamiliar en América Latina, nos muestra que la violencia intrafamiliar es un problema complejo y que requiere para su solución políticas y acciones coordinadas e intrasectoriales con la participación del Estado y de la sociedad civil. La Ruta es un recuento de las experiencias de mujeres en 16 comunidades de diez países de la región, y las respuestas de prestatarios de servicios de salud, judicial, policial y social en estas comunidades. Estas experiencias han sido obtenidas a través de la aplicación de un protocolo con el mismo nombre. El protocolo fue diseñado y aplicado con las propias mujeres y con otros miembros de sus comunidades. more...

Price: $24.00