Addressing violence, abuse and oppression : debates and challenges

Publication Data

• Title Addressing violence, abuse and oppression : debates and challenges
• Contributors Barbara Fawcett, Fran Waugh
• Publisher Routledge
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location London
• Language English

Contents

Introduction
Women and violence / Barbara Fawcett
Men and violence / Maurice Hanlon
Trapped within poverty and violence / Deborah Hart
Towards healing : recognizing the trauma surrounding Aboriginal family violence / Karen Menzies and Lorna McNamara
Feminism(s) and domestic violence within national policy contexts / Ruth Phillips
'Violence', criminal justice, the law, policy and practice / Lesley Laing
Challenging the second closet : intimate partner violence between lesbians / Jude Irwin
Violence against women in rural settings / Margot Rawsthorne
Violence against children within the family / Fran Waugh
Violence and the state : asylum seeker children / Denise Lynch
Out of the asylum : from restraints to freedom? / Zita Weber
Violence against the self : self-harm and suicide / Agi O'Hara
Disability and violence / Barbara Fawcett
Older people and violence / Lindsey Napier and Fran Waugh
Human service professionals, violence and the workplace / Rosalie Pockett
Conclusion.

Topics

• Social service
• Human services
• Violence
• Victims of family violence
• Women :: Abuse of
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Addressing violence, abuse and oppression : debates and challenges. ISBN 9780203937716. Published by Routledge in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.