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Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression: Debates and Challenges book cover

1st Edition

Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression Debates and Challenges

Edited By Barbara Fawcett, Fran Waugh Copyright 2008
248 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge
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Everyone working in health and social care is at one point or another confronted by violent behaviour and its consequences. Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression provides a broad overview of violence in relation to a range of groups and areas that involve human service professionals. Adopting an international perspective, this book looks at the ways in which violence, abuse and... Read more

Section One 1. Introduction 2. Women and Violence / Barbara Fawcett 3. Men and Violence / Maurice Hanlon 4. Trapped Within Poverty and Violence / Deborah Hart 5. Towards Healing: Recognizing the Trauma Surrounding Aboriginal Family Violence / Karen Menzies and Lorna McNamara Section Two 6. Feminisms and Domestic Violence: Within National Policy Contexts / Ruth Phillips 7. ‘Violence’, Criminal Justice, the Law, Policy and Practice / Lesley Laing 8. Challenging the Second Closet: Intimate Partner Violence Between Lesbians / Jude Irwin 9. Violence Against Women in Rural Settings / Margot Rawsthorne Section Three 10. Violence Against Children Within the Family / Fran Waugh 11. Violence and the State: Asylum Seeker Children / Denise Lynch 12. Out of the Asylum: From Restraint to Freedom? / Zita Weber 13. Violence Against the Self, Self Harm and Suicide / Agi O’Hara 14. Disability and Violence / Barbara Fawcett 15. Older People and Violence / Lindsey Napier and Fran Waugh 16. Human Service Professionals: Violence and the Workplace / Rosalie Pockett 17. Conclusion

Biography

Barbara Fawcett; Fran Waugh

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