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Book THE FACES OF VIOLENCE

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  • Author : George B. Palermo
  • Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
  • Release : 2011-12-01
  • ISBN : 0398083517
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book THE FACES OF VIOLENCE written by George B. Palermo and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised and rewritten, this new Second Edition addresses the manifestations of violence with an unusual clarity and down-to-earth objectivity that studies poverty, drugs, access to guns, joblessness, poor education, inadequate housing, and the lack of stability that comes from an integrated family. Doctor Palermo has spent a lifetime observing criminal violence as a psychiatrist for Milwaukee County. He is well known for his plainspoken, unpretentious testimony in the trial of serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer. The author takes the position that there is an absence in the United States of a coherent culture, of its material obsession, the destructiveness of welfare, the disintegration of the family unit and how all these forces have come together to perpetuate and increase violence in our daily lives. Although the book deals with crimes against the physical person, other forms of criminal behavior that have recently appeared on the social scene are explored, such as Internet crimes, white-collar crimes, and identity theft. It is a must read for all those professionals in the psychiatric, criminological, and forensic fields.

Book A Woman Like You

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  • Author : Vera Anderson
  • Publisher : Seal Press
  • Release : 1997-09-18
  • ISBN : 9781878067074
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book A Woman Like You written by Vera Anderson and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 1997-09-18 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the stories and photographs of women who have been victims of family violence

Book The Many Faces of Domestic Violence

Download or read book The Many Faces of Domestic Violence written by Sheri Durricks and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't be blinded by Love...Studies show every 9 seconds in the United States, a woman is assaulted or beaten. The adverse effects of domestic violence far outweigh that of physical bruises and scars. The emotional ramifications of abuse are equally detrimental and perilous. Countless victims are suffering in silence as a result of fear and shame. It is time to unveil the hidden, ugly truths of this prevalent societal issue plaguing countless women all over the globe.Domestic violence doesn't discriminate. It can often be the harsh reality for corporate leaders, church dignitaries, celebrities, and/ or the girl next door. 'Faces' empowers women from all cultural spectrums to break deep-rooted patterns of shame, fear and isolation. This poignant book identifies various types of domestic abuse and encourages its reader to own her power, take back her freedom, and give herself permission to live and love again! This book will help the reader to:* Conquer Fear* Embrace Freedom* Stand in God-Given Authority* Find inner peace* Fall in love with 'self' againThe 'Many Faces of Domestic Violence' is a call to action. You have the power to conquer, embrace, and stand in the wake of adversity! This book is filled with real-life stories that prove there is abundant life after abuse. 'Faces' empowers victims of domestic violence to embark upon the journey of self-discovery by embracing their personal truths.

Book Faces of Violence in the Lives of Girls

Download or read book Faces of Violence in the Lives of Girls written by Yasmin Jiwani and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Violence

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  • Author : Slavoj Zizek
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2008-07-22
  • ISBN : 0312427182
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book Violence written by Slavoj Zizek and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Zizek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in the world.

Book Facing Violence

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  • Author : Rory Miller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2023-09-06
  • ISBN : 9781594399763
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Facing Violence written by Rory Miller and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to the context of self-defense. It includes seven elements that must be addressed to bring self-defense training to something approaching 'complete.'

Book The Faces of Honor

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  • Author : Lyman L. Johnson
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 1998-08
  • ISBN : 9780826319067
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book The Faces of Honor written by Lyman L. Johnson and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honor was everywhere in Colonial Latin America, and to understand the many ways it had an impact on people's lives is to understand the organizing principles of a society.

Book Carry

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  • Author : Toni Jensen
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2021-09-21
  • ISBN : 1984821202
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Carry written by Toni Jensen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an Indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author’s encounters with gun violence. Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize • Goop Book Club Pick • “Essential . . . We need more voices like Toni Jensen’s, more books like Carry.”—Tommy Orange, New York Times bestselling author of There There Toni Jensen grew up around guns: As a girl, she learned to shoot birds in rural Iowa with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she’s had guns waved in her face near Standing Rock, and felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. And she has always known that in this she is not alone. As a Métis woman, she is no stranger to the violence enacted on the bodies of Indigenous women, on Indigenous land, and the ways it is hidden, ignored, forgotten. In Carry, Jensen maps her personal experience onto the historical, exploring how history is lived in the body and redefining the language we use to speak about violence in America. In the title chapter, Jensen connects the trauma of school shootings with her own experiences of racism and sexual assault on college campuses. “The Worry Line” explores the gun and gang violence in her neighborhood the year her daughter was born. “At the Workshop” focuses on her graduate school years, during which a workshop classmate repeatedly killed off thinly veiled versions of her in his stories. In “Women in the Fracklands,” Jensen takes the reader inside Standing Rock during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests and bears witness to the peril faced by women in regions overcome by the fracking boom. In prose at once forensic and deeply emotional, Toni Jensen shows herself to be a brave new voice and a fearless witness to her own difficult history—as well as to the violent cultural landscape in which she finds her coordinates. With each chapter, Carry reminds us that surviving in one’s country is not the same as surviving one’s country.

Book The Many Faces of Violence

Download or read book The Many Faces of Violence written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indigenous Women and Violence

Download or read book Indigenous Women and Violence written by Lynn Stephen and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous Women and Violence offers an intimate view of how settler colonialism and other structural forms of power and inequality created accumulated violences in the lives of Indigenous women. This volume uncovers how these Indigenous women resist violence in Mexico, Central America, and the United States, centering on the topics of femicide, immigration, human rights violations, the criminal justice system, and Indigenous justice. Taking on the issues of our times, Indigenous Women and Violence calls for the deepening of collaborative ethnographies through community engagement and performing research as an embodied experience. This book brings together settler colonialism, feminist ethnography, collaborative and activist ethnography, emotional communities, and standpoint research to look at the links between structural, extreme, and everyday violences across time and space. Indigenous Women and Violence is built on engaging case studies that highlight the individual and collective struggles that Indigenous women face from the racial and gendered oppression that structures their lives. Gendered violence has always been a part of the genocidal and assimilationist projects of settler colonialism, and it remains so today. These structures—and the forms of violence inherent to them—are driving criminalization and victimization of Indigenous men and women, leading to escalating levels of assassination, incarceration, or transnational displacement of Indigenous people, and especially Indigenous women. This volume brings together the potent ethnographic research of eight scholars who have dedicated their careers to illuminating the ways in which Indigenous women have challenged communities, states, legal systems, and social movements to promote gender justice. The chapters in this book are engaged, feminist, collaborative, and activism focused, conveying powerful messages about the resilience and resistance of Indigenous women in the face of violence and systemic oppression. Contributors: R. Aída Hernández-Castillo, Morna Macleod, Mariana Mora, María Teresa Sierra, Shannon Speed, Lynn Stephen, Margo Tamez, Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj

Book THE FACES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Download or read book THE FACES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE written by Crystal Archable and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Faces of Domestic Violence is a work which follows the progression of a ‘romantic’ relationship to its tragic end. The piece, written in a combination of haiku and poetic rhyme, conveys the inner musing of the characters as they become deeper and deeper entwined in one another’s lives. As the relationship progresses, signs and warning signals of violence are ignored and/or justified. Voices of family members and those who are impacted by the couple are heard throughout the piece. As a dramatic reading, the voices can be read by multiple readers, an indication that these characters can represent anyone.

Book Violence All Around

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  • Author : John Sifton
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2015-05-11
  • ISBN : 0674057694
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Violence All Around written by John Sifton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A human rights lawyer travels to hot zones around the globe, before and after the September 11 attacks, to document abuses committed by warlords, terrorist groups, and government counterterrorism forces. Whether reporting on al Qaeda safe houses, the mechanics of the Pentagon’s smartest bombs, his interviews with politicians and ordinary civilians, or his own brush with death outside Kabul, John Sifton wants to help us understand violence—what it is, and how we think and speak about it. For the human rights community, the global war on terror brought unprecedented challenges. Of special concern were the secret detention centers operated by the CIA as it expanded into a paramilitary force, and the harsh treatment of prisoners throughout Iraq and Afghanistan. In drafting legal memoranda that made domestic prosecution for these crimes impossible, Sifton argues, the United States possessed not only the detainees but the law itself. Sifton recounts his efforts to locate secret prisons and reflects on the historical development of sanctioned military or police violence—from hand-to-hand combat to the use of drones—and the likelihood that technology will soon enable completely automated killing. Sifton is equally concerned to examine what people have meant by nonviolent social change, and he asks whether pure nonviolence is ever possible. To invoke rights is to invoke the force to uphold them, he reminds us. Ultimately, advocates for human rights can only shame the world into better behavior, and their work may involve advocating the very violence they deplore.

Book Faces of Violence

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  • Author : Daya Singh Sandhu
  • Publisher : Nova Publishers
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9781560728351
  • Pages : 506 pages

Download or read book Faces of Violence written by Daya Singh Sandhu and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faces of Violence - Psychological Correlates, Concepts & Intervention Strategies

Book The Other Side of Domestic Violence

Download or read book The Other Side of Domestic Violence written by Lydia Gonzalez and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the first thing that comes to people's minds when someone asked, "What is your definition on domestic violence?" Throughout the years, people define this term as physical abuse, which is correct, although it is not the complete answer. We hear the media and other sources when they announced the shocking stories of women being beaten and a lot of times murdered in the hands of their spouses. Physical abuse has been the headlines on the media through decades especially when it must be with a public figure. It is a devastating, horrendous act which doesn't discriminate race, culture, gender, and age. However, the definition that has been projected through years on domestic violence has not been completed. Domestic violence has different sides of abuse: the one which leaves bruise on the exterior of the body and the other one is the silent and unknown. This one leaves painful scars on the inside; the pain can be seen in the faces of this populous. This side is the one where society invites it into their life or they are not aware of the existence of the other side. The Other Side of Domestic Violence was written with the purpose to understand there's no difference from one and the other. Both are painful, destroy lives and leave scars. This book was inspired on the events that took two decades on the author's life. The Other Side of Domestic Violence is about the different types of abuse that has been happening for decades and has not been taken in consideration. Sadly, when people are unaware, they are dragging their loved ones into this type of scenario for instance, their children. The author demonstrates how psychological, verbal, environmental, sexual, and financial abuses affect these people's self-esteem, anguish, loneliness, and depression. All these feelings are the result of a manipulative and cruel minds. Nonetheless, Lydia's story demonstrates that anyone can get out of these types of abuse and be healed from the scars of the other side of domestic violence. "The past can't influence anybody's future; however, it can become the motive to achieve greater opportunities to bless others in the future." When Lydia Gonzalez understood the importance of this truth, her life changed, and she became a totally different person. The Other Side of Domestic Violence presents a life of manipulation, discovering the truth, coping with grief, and making the decision to move on to a new journey.

Book The Big Bloody Book of Violence

Download or read book The Big Bloody Book of Violence written by Lawrence Kane and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Implementing even a fraction of this book's suggestions will substantially increase your overall safety." - Gila Hayes, Armed Citizens' Legal Defense NetworkWe could whine about how we live in dangerous times nowadays, but let's face it, all throughout history ordinary people have been at risk of violence in one way or another. Abdicating personal responsibility by outsourcing your safety to others might be the easy way out, but it does little to safeguard your welfare. In this book you'll discover what dangers you face and learn proven strategies to thwart them.Self-defense is far more than fighting skills; it's a lifestyle choice, a more enlightened way of looking at and moving through the world. Topics include:* Making sense of senseless violence* Riots and crowd safety* Terrorism* Domestic violence* Gangs* Home invasions* Conquering impossible odds* Creating witnesses* Guns* Overcoming talisman thinking* Interacting with law enforcement* And much, much more...Violent encounters are rarely what you'd think. Oftentimes they last mere seconds yet have consequences that can linger for a lifetime. The best confrontations are those you can avoid, but preparation and training can get you through those times when you must fight for your life and failure is not an option. In this book Kane and Wilder teach you how."This is an insider's bible to violence, what it is, how to spot it and how to avoid it." - Becky Blanton, TED Global speaker, journalist

Book Defaced

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  • Author : Valentin Groebner
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2009-03-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Defaced written by Valentin Groebner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding late medieval pictorial representations of violence. Destroyed faces, dissolved human shapes, invisible enemies: violence and anonymity go hand in hand. The visual representation of extreme physical violence makes real people nameless exemplars of horror--formless, hideous, defaced. In Defaced, Valentin Groebner explores the roots of the visual culture of violence in medieval and Renaissance Europe and shows how contemporary visual culture has been shaped by late medieval images and narratives of violence. For late medieval audiences, as with modern media consumers, horror lies less in the "indescribable" and "alien" than in the familiar and commonplace. From the fourteenth century onward, pictorial representations became increasingly violent, whether in depictions of the Passion, or in vivid and precise images of torture, execution, and war. But not every spectator witnessed the same thing when confronted with terrifying images of a crucified man, misshapen faces, allegedly bloodthirsty conspirators on nocturnal streets, or barbarian fiends on distant battlefields. The profusion of violent imagery provoked a question: how to distinguish the illegitimate violence that threatened and reversed the social order from the proper, "just," and sanctioned use of force? Groebner constructs a persuasive answer to this question by investigating how uncannily familiar medieval dystopias were constructed and deconstructed. Showing how extreme violence threatens to disorient, and how the effect of horror resides in the depiction of minute details, Groebner offers an original model for understanding how descriptions of atrocities and of outrageous cruelty depended, in medieval times, on the variation of familiar narrative motifs.

Book The Many Faces of Political Violence

Download or read book The Many Faces of Political Violence written by Tim Sweijs and published by The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern era’s Great Power Peace has come under severe strain in recent years. The seams of the western-based world political order have stretched to the point of breaking, with non-state actors rising in response to exploit the global climate of paralysis and uncertainty. Indeed, violence levels are at historically high levels that haven’t been seen since 2004. But what does the violence waged on Europe’s borders mean for European citizens and their leaders? HCSS has analyzed trends in political violence using various open-data sources and provides a forecast of civil war onset risk for the year 2017 using in-house forecasting models based on rich quantitative datasets and complex theoretical frameworks. This study is part of the 2016-2017 HCSS StratMon.