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Book Family Violence  A Canadian Introduction

Download or read book Family Violence A Canadian Introduction written by Julianne Momirov and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family violence is hard for most people to understand. The fact that we are more likely to be killed or assaulted by family members than anyone else seems incredible. Yet for many Canadians the family is a dangerous place, far from the haven of love and security that we would like to believe. In this book, sociologists Julianne Momirov and Ann Duffy explore the many forms that violence can take, from physical abuse to emotional deprivation. The victims, the theories, and the factors increasing risk are all clearly presented. Policies and programs which would address this issue -- from personal intervention to institutional reforms -- are also outlined. This new edition incorporates up-to-date statistical information on the prevalence of family violence. It reports on recent initiatives to find more successful ways to respond to the needs of victims and to rehabilitate the perpetrators. This is the definitive Canadian book for anyone wanting to learn more about this disturbing phenomenon.

Book Heavy Hands

Download or read book Heavy Hands written by Denise Kindschi Gosselin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significantly updated in this edition, this book discusses many family violence issues in a comprehensive and easy to understand format. Chapters begin with scenarios and include case studies, in-depth feature boxes and current events that connect difficult topics to real life situations. This book contains a robust supplement package, new internet-based chapter exercises and end-of-chapter questions that address the changes in family violence, practice, policy and research. Some examples of new content include: A new chapter on Violence Against Women Around the World Section on research and sources of family violence data Two chapters on child abuse Chapter on adolescent perpetrators Chapter on gay and lesbian partner abuse Internet-based exercises This is an ideal resource for individuals interested in the field of criminal justice, criminology, or sociology.

Book Cruel but Not Unusual

Download or read book Cruel but Not Unusual written by Ramona Alaggia and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence in families and intimate relationships affects a significant proportion of the population—from very young children to the elderly—with far-reaching and often devastating consequences. Cruel but Not Unusual draws on the expertise of scholars and practitioners to present readers with the latest research and thinking about the history, conditions, and impact of violence in these contexts. For this new edition, chapters have been updated to reflect changes in data and legislation. New chapters include an examination of trauma from a neurobiological perspective; a critical analysis of the “gender symmetry debate,” a debate that questions the gendered nature of intimate violence; and an essay on the history and evolution of the women’s movement dedicated to addressing violence against women, which advances theoretical developments that remind readers of the breadth of inclusivity that should be at the heart of working in this field.

Book The First Casualty

Download or read book The First Casualty written by Deborah Harrison and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2002-05-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military wives are among the women most vulnerable to abuse in our society: isolated from friends and family in a culture that ostracizes those who speak up, they face desperate financial circumstances and lack professional support in times of crisis. Deborah Harrison and her collaborators interview more than 100 survivors of abuse and their partners in this groundbreaking study of violence against women in military communities. Despite a policy of zero tolerance, abusive behaviour continues, fostered by a culture centred on constant preparation for violent conflict and covered up by an ethos that demands members protect one another at all costs. The First Casualty is a riveting account of how military culture contributes to abuse, keeps it secret, and attempts to silence its victims.

Book Family Violence Against Women

Download or read book Family Violence Against Women written by Dr. Norma A. Barnett and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God Loves Abused Women Too is an inspiring book that not only does it bring about an awareness for the abuse in many womens lives but how God deals through the abuse. This book demonstrates the skills and strategies used to break the abuse in a womans life. God Loves Abused Women Too shows the true spiritual meaning of how God loves women through an abusive cycle, and how they can get out when they are trapped. There are many audiences within the book such as pastors, missionaries, ministers, psych student scholars and the general public that need to address the issues women have involving abuse. There is an impeccable taste for penmanship within the book that far exceeds its time and the author has produced a fine literary work. These audiences all have a chance to get deeper understanding by looking at the many perspectives on abuse and the journey to healing and wholeness. The audience is captivated not only by the imagery presented but the outcome of the lives of women who are touched by this awesome God. There is something.

Book Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America written by John M. Herrick and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia provides readers with basic information about the history of social welfare in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The intent of the encyclopedia is to provide readers with information about how these three nations have dealt with social welfare issues, some similar across borders, others unique, as well as to describe important events, developments, and the lives and work of some key contributors to social welfare developments.

Book Family Violence

Download or read book Family Violence written by Rose S. Fife and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important resource for students, health professionals, social workers, and public health professionals, Family Violence addresses etiology, societal impact, and legal and public health policy considerations. It is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses, continuing medical education courses, conferences, and seminars that deal with interpersonal violence. --Book Jacket.

Book Feminist Theories of Crime

Download or read book Feminist Theories of Crime written by Merry Morash and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection re-imagines the field of criminology with insights gleaned from feminist theory. Works included here illustrate that gender is a key organizing principle of social life. This means that men and women have gender, that patriarchy as well as gender must be theorized, and that other systems of oppression such as race and class must also be studied to fully understand the crime problem and the criminal justice system. Finally, the articles collected here exemplify the feminist concern for thinking consciously about how and why we do our research with the crucial goal of producing knowledge that will promote social justice.

Book Family Violence From a Global Perspective

Download or read book Family Violence From a Global Perspective written by Sylvia M. Asay and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-of-a-kind edited collection draws on the expertise of authors from 16 countries representing 17 cultures to tell the story of domestic violence in their respective parts of the world. The book incorporates a strengths-based approach, including individual, relationship, community, and societal strengths. The collection draws on multiple perspectives (academics, counselors, organizers, activists, and victims) to determine strengths and analyze how they can translate into greater safety for victims, increased accountability of perpetrators, and improved policy formation and research. Each chapter focuses on the lived experiences of victims of intimate partner violence, child abuse, or elder abuse and includes information about the abuser, the family, the community, and the culture.

Book Social Work and Family Violence

Download or read book Social Work and Family Violence written by Joan McClennen, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this comprehensive text for MSW and BSW students studying family violence is fully reorganized for improved flow of information, is substantially revised, and is updated to reflect current scholarship and practice. Focusing on child abuse and maltreatment, intimate partner violence (IPV), and older adult abuse, the book covers assessment procedures and evidence-based treatments used by social workers with victims and perpetrators of all age groups and of both genders. It provides expanded information on agencies advocating on behalf of children including child advocacy centers, guardians ad litem, and court-appointed special advocates as well as child welfare laws and policies. The textbook provides updated information related to IPV and vulnerable/at-risk populations including sex trafficking victims, veterans, and male victims. The second edition also features more in-depth theoretical information integrated with case studies, and new information regarding technological issues and criminal justice reform. The authors address assessments and interventions for adult victims of family violence, adult survivors of child abuse, child witnesses of domestic violence, adolescent victims of dating violence, older adult victims of abuse, and both male and female perpetrators of abuse. The text encompasses several features that make it particularly useful in the classroom, including real-life case studies in every chapter, key terms, and discussion questions. An updated and robust instructor package includes a fully revised Test Bank and more detailed PowerPoints. New to the Second Edition: Aligns with 2015 CSWE Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards Adds updated news articles to help stimulate discussion on chapter content Updated instructor package including fully revised Test Bank Updated and expanded PowerPoint presentations Expanded information in the child maltreatment section on child advocacy centers, guardians ad litem, and court-appointed special advocates A new child maltreatment case example and SMART plan Updated child welfare laws and policies Expanded coverage of safety planning and protection orders for IPV victims New coverage of IPV and sex trafficking Expanded coverage of IPV with male victims and their female perpetrators Coverage of multiple vulnerable and at-risk populations Use of pet therapy and service dogs for IPV in military Updated material on causation of older adult abuse Inclusion of instrument to screen for maltreatment Expanded chapter on assessment and intervention of older adult abuse Example of a possible risk assessment for older adults

Book Family Violence

Download or read book Family Violence written by Paul Harvey Wallace and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the entire spectrum of family violence, focusing onsocial processes and social relationships. The seventh edition of Family Violence: Legal, Medical, and Social Perspectives by Harvey Wallace and Cliff Roberson is a comprehensive introduction to the study of family violence that guides readers to a better understanding of the challenges involved in reducing or eliminating violence. The six major topics are: domestic partner abuse, child abuse, elder abuse, physical and psychological abuse, identifying when abuse occurs, and discussing the effects of the various types of abuse or violence. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: -Understand the facets of family violence. -Discuss how violence may be reduced or eliminated. -Identify how each major type of abuse impacts the social and law enforcement agencies that are involved.

Book Family   Friends  Guide to Domestic Violence

Download or read book Family Friends Guide to Domestic Violence written by Elaine Weiss and published by Volcano Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers practical answers to extraordinarily complex questions raised by abuse. Provides a checklist of warning signs of domestic abuse.

Book Trauma and Recovery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Lewis Herman
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2015-07-07
  • ISBN : 0465098738
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Trauma and Recovery written by Judith Lewis Herman and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, a leading clinical psychiatrist redefines how we think about and treat victims of trauma. A "stunning achievement" that remains a "classic for our generation." (Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., author of The Body Keeps the Score). Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war. Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most important psychiatry works to be published since Freud," Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how we heal and are healed.

Book Family and Intimate Partner Violence

Download or read book Family and Intimate Partner Violence written by Denise K. Gosselin and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earlier editions published as: Heavy hands: an introduction to the crimes of intimate and family violence.

Book Outgrowing the Pain

Download or read book Outgrowing the Pain written by Eliana Gil and published by Dell. This book was released on 2009-07-22 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Anyone who had a troubled childhood ought to read this book.”—Anne H. Cohn, D.P.H., Executive Director, National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse Do you have trouble finding friends, lovers, acquaintances? Once you find them, do they dump on you, take advantage of you, or leave? Are you in a relationship you know isn't good for you? Are you still trying to figure out what you want to do when you grow up? Are you drinking too much, eating too much or trying to numb your pain with drugs of any kind? These are just a few of the problems abused children experience when they become adults. You may not realize you were abused. You may think your parents didn't mean it, didn't know better, or that others had it much worse. You may not even have made the connection between the past and your current problems. Outgrowing the Pain is an important book for any adult who was abused or neglected in childhood. It's an important book for professionals who help others. It's a book of questions that can pinpoint and illuminate destructive patterns. The answers you discover can lead to a life filled with new insight, hope, and love. “The best book available to help survivors cope and understand.”—Dan Sexton, Director, Childhelp's National Abuse Hotline “An invaluable aid for adult survivors of child abuse.”—Suzanne M. Sgroi, M.D., Executive Director, New England Clinical Associates

Book Policing Black Lives

Download or read book Policing Black Lives written by Robyn Maynard and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-18T00:00:00Z with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada. While highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance, Policing Black Lives traces the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple institutions, shedding light on the state’s role in perpetuating contemporary Black poverty and unemployment, racial profiling, law enforcement violence, incarceration, immigration detention, deportation, exploitative migrant labour practices, disproportionate child removal and low graduation rates. Emerging from a critical race feminist framework that insists that all Black lives matter, Maynard’s intersectional approach to anti-Black racism addresses the unique and understudied impacts of state violence as it is experienced by Black women, Black people with disabilities, as well as queer, trans, and undocumented Black communities. A call-to-action, Policing Black Lives urges readers to work toward dismantling structures of racial domination and re-imagining a more just society.

Book Family Violence in Canada

    Book Details:
  • Author : Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics
  • Publisher : Statistics Canada Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book Family Violence in Canada written by Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics and published by Statistics Canada Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics. This book was released on 1994 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the results of a number of activities and projects undertaken by Statistics Canada to identify the nature and extent of violence in Canadian families. For the first time in Canada, detailed information about the prevalence and the circumstances of many forms of violence in the family are available at a national level. Under the renewed Family Violence Initiative announced by the federal government in February 1991, Health Canada requested the assistance of the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS) in developing and co-ordinating a number of data collection activities. The overall objective of these activities was to address the need for improved information about family violence and services for victims and offenders. The overall strategy for the collection and analysis of national family violence information was composed of seven activities, the results of which are included in this report. Activities included: a national household survey on violence against women, a national survey of transition homes, a survey to examine cases of child abuse reported to pediatric hospitals, an inventory of residential services for abused women, an inventory of programs for men who batter, a descriptive study of legislation and services provided by provincial child welfare systems, and a project to improve the capacity of provincial information systems to provide criminal justice statistics in this area. This report also includes statistical information about cases of family violence reported to the police, domestic homicides, as well as a descriptive "case study" of the Winnipeg Family Violence Court. The definition of "family violence" that has guided the work of Statistics Canada and used throughout this report was developed under the Federal Family Violence Initiative and includes abuse of children, youth and older persons, and women by their male partners. Abuse can take a number of forms, including physical and sexual assault, intimidation, mental or emotional abuse, neglect, deprivation and financial exploitation. The term "family" refers to a grouping of individuals who are related by affection, kinship, dependency or trust. By using specific criteria and research tools to define and measure family violence, this report shows that violence in the family is a serious social and criminal problem in Canada.