Author: Nicky Ali Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: violence, domestic, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2007-02-22
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0415969689
ISBN-13: 9780415969680

The Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence is a modern reference from the leading international scholars in domestic violence research. This ground-breaking project has created the first ever publication of an encyclopedia of domestic violence. The primary goal of the Encyclopedia is to provide information on a variety of traditional, as well as breakthrough, issues in this complex phenomenon. The coverage of the Encyclopedia is broad and diverse, encompassing the entire life span from infancy to old age. The entries include the traditional research areas, such as battered women, child abuse and

Author: Elizabeth Kande Englander
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: violence, understanding
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0805836306
ISBN-13: 9780805836301

What impels human beings to harm others--family members or strangers? And how can these impulses and actions be prevented or controlled? Heightened public awareness of and concern about what is widely perceived as a recent explosion of violence, on a spectrum from domestic abuse to street crime to terrorism has motivated behavioral and social scientists to cast new light on old questions. Many hypotheses have been offered. In this book Elizabeth Kandel Englander sorts, structures, and evaluates them. She draws on contemporary research and theory in varied fields--clinical and social psycholo

Author: Dawn Berry
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: sourcebook, violence, domestic
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0737304197
ISBN-13: 9780737304190

A comprehensive, compassionate look at domestic violence--including historical, psychological, social, familial, and legal issues--this well-organized, accessible book offers the most current information available on prevention and recovery, along with practical steps for escaping a violent domestic situation.

Author: Elizabeth Kandel Englander
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Keywords: violence, understanding
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-08-25
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0805860916
ISBN-13: 9780805860917

In this third edition of Understanding Violence, author Elizabeth Kandel Englander draws on contemporary research and theory in varied fields to present a uniquely balanced, integrated, and readable summary of what we currently know about the causes and effects of violence, particularly its effect on children. The goal of this textbook is to give a critical review of the most relevant and important areas of research on street and family violence, examining why it is that people become violent. Between 1994 and 2004 the United States benefited from a dramatic decline in rates of violent crime.

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Publisher: Zubaan
Keywords: women, violence, paradigms, crimes, honour
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8189013807
ISBN-13: 9788189013806

This volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organizations addressing so-called "honour crimes", including "honour killings"  and interference with the right to marry, as well as analyzing relevant crosscutting thematic issues. In addition, this book identifies relevant intersecting thematic issues from practice-orientated academic perspective. It seeks to highlight a human rights based framework in seeking to address "crimes of honour" rather than taking a culturally relativist approach.

Author: Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: language, violence
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1990-11-20
List price: $20.99
ISBN-10: 0415034310
ISBN-13: 9780415034319

Any theory of language constructs its object by separating relevant from irrelevant phenomena and excluding the latter. As a result, all theories of language leave out a remainder. This remainder is the odd, untidy, awkward, creative part of how all of us use language all the time. It is the essence of poetry and of metaphor. Jean-Jacques Lecercle argues that, although the remainder can never be completely formalized, it must be fully recognized by any true account of language. He expounds a theory of the remainder which has to face the hard contradiction: "Who speaks? Language, or the speaker

Author: Piotr Hoffman
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: violence, time, doubt
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 1987-01-01
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0226347915
ISBN-13: 9780226347912

In this work of original philosophy, Piotr Hoffman focuses on two of the central concerns of modern philosophy—doubt and time. He argues that both concerns stem from a suppressed but underlying feeling that life is an all-out, unrestrained struggle and that violence is inherent in the human condition. According to Hoffman, modern philosophy becomes fully intelligible and coherent only when the notion of human violence is given paramount importance. After briefly pointing out some significant parallels between Hobbes and Descartes, Hoffman undertakes a careful examination of ideas about doubt