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  • Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women

    Edited by James Ptacek ...
    Series series Interpersonal Violence
    Controversial and forward-thinking, this volume presents a much-needed analysis of restorative justice practices in cases of violence against women. Advocates, community activists, and scholars will find the theoretical perspectives and vivid case descriptions presented here to be invaluable tools for creating new ways for abused women to find justice. ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Preventing Intimate Partner Violence

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    by Shamita Das Dasgupta, Diane R Fleet, Leigh Goodmark, James Ptacek, Susan L Miller, Lisa Larance, Nancy Glass, Elizabeth Miller, Michele R Decker, Bethsaida Nieves, Tova Walsh, Richard Tolman, Eileen Recktenwald, Victoria Banyard, Rebecca M Cudmore, Carlos Cuevas ...
    How can we prevent intimate partner violence (IPV)? And how do we define and measure “success” in preventing it? This book brings together researchers and practitioners from a wide range of fields to examine innovative strategies and programs for preventing IPV. The authors discuss evaluations of current prevention efforts, paying particular attention to underserved groups, including racial and ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Feeling Trapped

    Social Class and Violence against Women

    by James Ptacek ...
    Series Book 9 - Gender and Justice
    The relationship between class and intimate violence against women is much misunderstood. While many studies of intimate violence focus on poor and working-class women, few examine the issue comparatively in terms of class privilege and class disadvantage. James Ptacek draws on in-depth interviews with sixty women from wealthy, professional, working-class, and poor communities to investigate how ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Violence Against Women

    Myths, Facts, Controversies

    by Walter S DeKeseredy ...
    In Violence Against Women, award-winning author Walter S. DeKeseredy offers a passionate but well-documented sociological overview of a sobering problem. He starts by outlining the scope of the challenge and debunks current attempts to label intimate violence as gender neutral. He then lays bare the structural practices that sustain this violence, leading to a discussion of long- and short-term ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Women and Gendered Violence in Canada

    An Intersectional Approach

    by Chris Bruckert, Tuulia Law ...
    Violence against women is usually framed as an issue of interpersonal violence perpetuated by men. While domestic violence and sexual assault are significant social problems, such a narrow framing obscures the diversity of women’s experience, fails to illuminate the role social structures play, and excludes discussions of workplace and state violence. By drawing on a range of theoretical ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Arrested Justice

    Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation

    by Beth E. Richie ...
    Illuminates the threats Black women face and the lack of substantive public policy towards gendered violenceBlack women in marginalized communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual harassment, stalking and incest. Through the compelling stories of Black women who have been most affected by racism, persistent poverty, class inequality, limited access to support resources or ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Incarcerated Mothers: Oppresssion and Resistance

    by Gordana Eljdupovic ...
    A large proportion—and in many jurisdictions the majority—of incarcerated women are mothers. Popular attention is often paid to challenges faced by children of incarcerated mothers while incarcerated women themselves often do not "count" as mothers in mainstream discourse. This is the first anthology on incarcerated mothers' experiences that is primarily based on and reflects the Canadian context. ... Read more

    $26.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Restoring Justice

    An Introduction to Restorative Justice

    by Daniel W. Van Ness, Karen Heetderks Strong, Jonathan Derby, L. Lynette Parker ...
    Restoring Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Justice, Sixth Edition, offers a clear and convincing explanation of restorative justice, a movement within criminal justice with ongoing worldwide influence. The book explores the broad appeal of this vision and offers a brief history of its roots and development as an alternative to an impersonal justice system focused narrowly on the conviction ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Intersectionality and Criminology

    Disrupting and revolutionizing studies of crime

    by Hillary Potter ...
    Series series New Directions in Critical Criminology
    The use of intersectionality theory in the social sciences has proliferated in the past several years, putting forward the argument that the interconnected identities of individuals, and the way these identities are perceived and responded to by others, must be a necessary part of any analysis. Fundamentally, intersectionality claims that not only are people’s lived experiences affected by their ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Insult to Injury

    Rethinking our Responses to Intimate Abuse

    by Linda G. Mills ...
    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 ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Little Book of Restorative Justice

    Revised and Updated

    by Howard Zehr ...
    Series series Justice and Peacebuilding
    Howard Zehr is the father of Restorative Justice and is known worldwide for his pioneering work in transforming understandings of justice. Here he proposes workable principles and practices for making Restorative Justice possible in this revised and updated edition of his bestselling, seminal book on the movement. (The original edition has sold more than 110,000 copies.)Restorative Justice, with ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The War Against Boys

    How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men

    by Christina Hoff Sommers ...
    An updated and revised edition of the controversial classic—now more relevant than ever—argues that boys are the ones languishing socially and academically, resulting in staggering social and economic costs.Girls and women were once second-class citizens in the nation’s schools. Americans responded with concerted efforts to give girls and women the attention and assistance that was long overdue. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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