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Handbook of Domestic Violence Intervention Strategies: Policies, Programs, and Legal Remedies
Public awareness regarding the life-threatening nature and intense traumatic impact of domestic violence has substantially increased in the past decade. At the same time, dramatic changes have taken place regarding criminal justice and social work policies and practices applied to domestic violence intervention. And while the prevalence of domestic violence has declined slightly, national estimates still indicate that every year, approximately eight million women are abused, battered, stalked, or killed by their husbands, boyfriends, and other intimate partners. Featuring cutting-edge research and expert intervention strategies, the Handbook of Domestic Violence Intervention Strategies: Policies, Programs, and Legal Remedies is designed to prepare professionals to swiftly and compassionately meet the multiple needs of women and children who have suffered from domestic violence. This original and indispensable volume focuses on the numerous advances in legal remedies, program developments, treatment protocols, and multidisciplinary perspectives. It is a comprehensive guide to the latest research, public policies, and legal and criminal justice responses, covering federal and state legislation as well as trends in police and court responses to domestic violence. This is the first book to include court-based technology developments and new research related to the duration and intensity of woman battering. Highlighting actual cases and promising programs, the handbook also addresses important social work issues, including risk assessment protocols, a new five level continuum of woman battering, intervention methods, and treatment models. The book also examines the myriad legal issues and health problems facing the most neglected and vulnerable battered women. Written by expert practitioners and leading scholars in the field, the book's 23 chapters provide rich insights into the complexities and challenges of addressing domestic violence. This timely and definitive handbook is recommended for students, clinicians, policy makers, and researchers in the fields of social work, victim services, criminal justice, hospital administration, mental health counseling, public health, pastoral counseling, law enforcement. In fact, this volume is a critical resource for all helping professionals who are assisting abused women in escaping and remaining free from violent relationships..
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Raging Heart
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Conjugal America: On the Public Purposes of Marriage
The institution of marriage has become perilously weak in America Changes in the law over the past three decades, such as the spread of no-fault divorce and broad acquiescence to cultures of divorce and intentional childlessness, have stripped traditional marriage of important legal and cultural supports. Half of all marriages end in divorce and just as many are childless. "Conjugal America" focuses on the unchanging nature of this most vital and fundamental human institution.Confronting contemporary issues and drawing heavily on the natural and social sciences, this work also reaches into the past to find truths grounded in human experience. Carlson reexamines the basic bond of marriage to procreation, showing that this tie has been the foundation of the unwritten sexual constitution of Western civilization. He dissects claims regarding the "evolution of marriage," showing that true marriage always represents the vital connection of the sexual with the economic.Carlson explores the political nature of marriage showing, why every ambitious totalitarian government seeks above all to destroy marriage, and why the true marital bond stands for liberty. He concludes by arguing for the necessity of social policies that support marriage. Because both the nature of the centralizing state and the pressures of modernity have altered family circumstances, new protections and encouragements to marriage are now imperative. Now in paperback, "Conjugal America" will be central to the new debate on marriage and its purposes. This book sees the current moment as an opportunity to revitalize a necessary institution that has recently been abused and neglected and reinstate it as the primary source of commitment and care in the modern world..
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Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence--Boston, 1880-1960
"In this unflinching history of family violence, the historian Linda Gordon traces policies on child abuse and neglect, wife-beating, and incest from 1880 to 1960. Drawing on hundreds of case records from social agencies devoted to dealing with the problem, Gordon chronicles the changing visibility of family violence as gender, family, and political ideologies shifted. From the "discovery" of family violence in the 1870s - when it was first identified as a social, rather than personal, problem - to the women's and civil rights movements of the twentieth century, "Heroes of Their Own Lives" illustrates how public perceptions of marriage, poverty, alcoholism, mental illness, and responsibility worked for and against the victims of family violence. Powerful, moving, and tightly argued, "Heroes of Their Own Lives" shows family violence to be an indicator of larger social problems. Examining its sources as well as its treatment, Gordon offers both an honest understanding of the problem and an unromantic view of the difficulties in stopping it. ".
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Alternatives to Domestic Violence
Alternatives to Domestic Violence is a practical, hands-on workbook designed for counselors to help abusers recognize and deal with the issues underlying their behavior. Each technique presented in this manual has been tested in actual groups and refined for inclusion. The authors provide case studies and exercises to stimulate active participation by group members. Topics covered include: defining abuse, creating trusting relationships, giving and receiving respect, taking responsibility for actions and creating effective communication. The second edition of Alternatives to Domestic Violence includes many new features, including two new chapters: an introductory chapter titled "Before Starting Group" and an additional chapter on "Religion and Domestic Violence." The introductory chapter orients group members to the group process as well as the specific workings of a domestic violence group. This workbook is a necessary tool for all psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and counselors involved in battering intervention programs. The second edition includes new original stories from group members that serve to illuminate topic concepts as well as updated exercised. The authors have been using this book in different states for the past five years, and have made their revisions to the text based on their interactions with actual domestic violence groups. The result is a text that has been improved through first hand, clinical usage: ineffective exercises have been weeded out and replaced with exercises whose effectiveness has been proven in groupwork. Patterned after recognized approaches including the Duluth Model and AMEND (Abusive Men Exploring New Directions), it is easily integrated into existing curricula..
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Assessment of Partner Violence: A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners
"Assessment of Partner Violence: A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners" provides a comprehensive review of assessment information spanning five decades of research and three types of assessment methods: interview, self-report measures, and analogue assessment/behaviour coding devices. This handbook offers detailed descriptions and critiques of several dozen instruments in an easy-to-read reference format. Like its companion book - "Assessment of Family Violence: A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners" - this volume covers target population, equipment needs, format, administration and scoring guidelines, psychometric analysis, primary and related references, and scale availability as well as advantages, limitations, and general recommendations. In addition, the authors provide valuable contexts by discussing key psychometric concepts and research issues as well as practical clinical issues in the assessment of partner violence..
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Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison
By quadrupling the number of people behind bars in two decades, the United States has become the world leader in incarceration Much has been written on the men who make up the vast majority of the nation’s two million inmates. But what of the women they leave behind? Doing Time Together vividly details the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fiancés, and boyfriends on the inside. Megan Comfort spent years getting to know women visiting men at San Quentin State Prison, observing how their romantic relationships drew them into contact with the penitentiary. Tangling with the prison’s intrusive scrutiny and rigid rules turns these women into “quasi-inmates,” eroding the boundary between home and prison and altering their sense of intimacy, love, and justice. Yet Comfort also finds that with social welfare weakened, prisons are the most powerful public institutions available to women struggling to overcome untreated social ills and sustain relationships with marginalized men. As a result, they express great ambivalence about the prison and the control it exerts over their daily lives. An illuminating analysis of women caught in the shadow of America’s massive prison system, Comfort’s book will be essential for anyone concerned with the consequences of our punitive culture. (20071207).
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