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  • Violence Against Women

    Current Theory and Practice in Domestic Abuse, Sexual Violence and Exploitation

    by Aisha Gill, Lorraine Radford, Christine Barter, Elizabeth Gilchrist, Marianne Hester, Alison Phipps, Nel Whiting, Melanie McCarry, Marsha Scott, Evan Stark, Kirstein Rummery ...
    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    Violence against women is a pervasive problem in society and responding appropriately to those who experience it and those who perpetrate it is a constant challenge for social work, health and related professions today.This volume seeks to address issues surrounding violence against women at all levels, from its root causes to the specific needs arising in victims of gendered abuse from a ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Femicide across Europe

    Theory, Research and Prevention

    by Shalva Weil, Ljiljana Stevkovic, Christiana Kouta, Sümeyra Buran, Aisha Gill, Anita Nudelman, Santiago Boira, Ksenia Meshkova, Monika Schröttle, Chaime Marcuello-Servos0, Magdalena Grzyb1 ...
    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Femicide, the killing of women and girls because of their gender, was until recently included in the category ‘homicide’, obscuring the special features of this social and gendered phenomenon. However, the majority of murders of women are perpetrated by men whom they know from family ties and are the result of intimate partner violence or so-called ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Honour-Based Violence

    Experiences and Counter-Strategies in Iraqi Kurdistan and the UK Kurdish Diaspora

    by Nazand Begikhani, Aisha K. Gill ...
    ’Honour'-based violence is a form of intimate violence committed against women (and some men) by husbands, fathers, brothers and male relatives. A very common social phenomenon, it has existed throughout history and in a wide variety of societies across the world, from white European to African cultures, from South and East Asia to Latin America. The most extreme form of Honour-based violence - ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities

    Issues for Policy and Practice

    by Marzia Balzani, Samia Bano, Hannah Siddiqui, Kaveri Sharma, Amrit Wilson, Trishima Mitra, Pragna Patel ...
    While forced marriage and 'honour-based' violence attract media attention, little is known about the issues and experiences of South Asian women and children who are affected by gendered violence.This book explores the key theoretical and empirical issues involved in gendered violence, ethnicity and South Asian communities. The editors draw together leading researchers and practitioners to provide ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Forced Marriage

    Introducing a Social Justice and Human Rights Perspective

    by Doctor Anja Bredal, Teertha Gupta, Doctor Samia Bano, Marzia Balzani, Sara Hossain, Geetanjali Gangoli, Ms Shazia Choudhry, Ann Singleton, Khantun Sapnara, Khatidja Chantler, Professor Marianne Hester ...
    Forced Marriage: Introducing a social justice and human rights perspective brings together leading practitioners and researchers from the disciplines of criminology, sociology and law. Together the contributors provide an international, multi-disciplinary perspective that offers a compelling alternative to prevailing conceptualisations of the problem of forced marriage.The volume examines advances ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Child Sexual Abuse in Black and Minoritised Communities

    Improving Legal, Policy and Practical Responses

    Edited by Aisha K. Gill, Hannah Begum ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Child sexual abuse (CSA) is believed to affect one in eight children worldwide (UNICEF, 2020). This authoritative book challenges widely-held problematic beliefs about CSA and discusses societal responses and attitudes to survivors. It brings together multidisciplinary expertise from key researchers and practitioners around the world to better understand CSA in Black and racially minoritised ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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    Surviving a Life of Prostitution and Drug Addiction on Dublin's Streets

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    When you are 15 years old and destitute, too unskilled to work and too young to claim unemployment benefit, your body is all you have left to sell.'THE BEST WORK BY ANYONE ON PROSTUTION EVER.' Catherine A. MacKinnonRachel Moran came from a troubled family background. Taken into state care at 14, she became homeless and got involved in prostitution aged 15, ending up isolated, drug-addicted, ... Read more

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  • South of Forgiveness

    A True Story of Rape and Responsibility

    by Elva Thordis, Stranger Tom ...
    One ordinary spring morning in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thordis Elva kisses her son and partner goodbye before boarding a plane to do a remarkable thing: fly seven thousand miles to South Africa to confront the man who raped her when she was just sixteen. Meanwhile, in Sydney, Australia, Tom Stranger nervously embarks on an equally life-changing journey to meet Thordis, wondering whether he is worthy ... Read more

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  • What's Really Wrong with the Middle East

    by Brian Whitaker ...
    The problems in the Middle East run deeper than dictatorship. Inspired by the popular uprising that overthrew Tunisia's president, Arabs across the Middle East are demanding change. But achieving real freedom will involve more than the removal of a few dictators. Looking beyond the turmoil reported on our TV screens, Guardian journalist Brian Whitaker examines the 'freedom deficit' that affects ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Evidence

    From evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence

    by Justin Parkhurst ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how ... Read more

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  • A Sociology Of Mental Health And Illness

    by Anne Rogers, David Pilgrim ...
    This book provides a sociological analysis of major areas of mental health and illness. ... Read more

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  • Popular Culture and Political Identity in the Arab Gulf States

    Edited by Robert Springborg, Alsharekh Alanoud ...
    Series Book 6 - SOAS Middle East Issues S.
    As the Gulf assumes an ever more important identity in the global political economy, we see the emergence of a new popular and political culture underpinning its increasingly self-confident national identities. This volume explores the new dynamism of the Gulf, reflected not just in high-rise buildings and booming stock markets, but also manifested in the realms of art, ideas and expression, and ... Read more

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