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It's My Life Nowby Meg Dugan; Roger Hock
Routledge 2000; US$ 24.95A book for women who have recently left an abusive relationship. It provides accessible practical information on how to protect yourself once you've left the relationship and how to get through the difficult emotions that accompany leaving. more...
New Visions of Crime Victimsby Carolyn Hoyle; Richard Young
Hart 2002; US$ 96.00Presents theoretical and empirical research on criminal victimization. The first part of the text challenges stereotypical conceptions of victimization, focusing on non-traditional victims of crime. The second part considers criminal justice responses to victimization. more...
After Port Arthurby Carol Altmann
Allen & Unwin 2006; US$ 29.95A decade on, journalist Carol Altmann looks at how the people, the place, the killer, and the whole country has changed since the horrific massacre at one of Australia's most infamous historic landmarks. more...
In the Name of Honorby Mukhtar Mai; Marie-Therese Cuny; Nicholas D. Kristof; Linda Coverdale
Simon & Schuster 2006; US$ 10.99In June 2002, journalists throughout the world began to hear of the gang rape of a Pakistani woman from the impoverished village of Meerwala. The rape was ordered by a local clan known as the Mastoi and was arranged as punishment for indiscretions allegedly committed by the woman's brother. While certainly not the first account of a female body being negotiated for honor in a family, and (sadly) not the last, journalists and activists were captivated. This time the survivor had chosen to fight back, and in doing so, single-handedly changed the feminist movement in Pakistan. Her name was Mukhtar Mai, and her decision to stand up to her accusers was an act of bravery unheard of in one of the world's most adverse climates for women. By July... more...
Victims of Crime and Community Justiceby Brian Williams
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2005; US$ 29.95Can a victim's experience really be improved purely by diminishing the rights of offenders and increasing penalties for offending?. Writing at a time when the UK is beginning to accept that an offender-led criminal justice system cannot provide direct benefits to the victim of crime, Dr Brian Williams lays bare the assumptions about victims and offenders that currently restrict efficient policy-making. He evaluates proposed solutions, including restorative justice and informal community justice, and draws on evidence and experiences from the UK and around the world to investigate which measures have proved effective and how criminal justice policies might be redressed. This book provides a thorough and comprehensive analysis of the topic for... more...
Victim-Offender Mediation with Youth Offenders in Europeby Anna Mestitz; Simona Ghetti
Springer 2006; US$ 249.00Documenting the Victim-Offender Mediation with youth offenders in 15 European nations, this book provides a review of the theory and practice, and a critical discussion of problems and benefits to guide policy decisions and applications. The common format used in each chapter facilitates comparison across countries. more...
Bondi Badlandsby Greg Callaghan
Allen & Unwin 2007; US$ 22.68A grittily compelling look at a series of brutal murders that took place in Sydney's eastern beachside suburbs in the 1980s - this is the extraordinary story of the crimes, the victims, the gangs and the policeman who refused to close the case. more...
Imagining The Victim Of Crimeby Sandra Walklate
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 47.98Situates the contemporary preoccupation with criminal victimisation within the broader socio-cultural changes. This book addresses not only the policy possibilities that have been generated as a consequence of those changes but also concerns itself with the ability of victimology to help make sense of this change. more...
Body Evidenceby Shamita Das Dasgupta
Rutgers University Press 2007; US$ 21.00When South Asians immigrated to the United States in the 1970s, they were passionately driven to achieve economic stability and socialize the next generation to retain the traditions of their home culture. The immigrant community went to great lengths to project an impeccable public image by denying the existence of social problems such as domestic violence, sexual assault, mental illness, racism, and intergenerational conflict. It was not until recently that activist groups have worked to bring these issues out into the open. In Body Evidence, more than twenty scholars and public health professionals uncover the unique challenges faced by victims of domestic violence in South Asian American communities. Topics include cultural obsession with... more...
Sex Without Consentby Shireen J. Jejeebhoy; Iqbal Shah; Shyam Thapa
Zed Books 2005; US$ 37.95The pressing need to analyse what is known about non-consensual sex among young people in developing countries is self-evident. Available evidence has been scattered and unrepresentative and has often given the misguided impression that non-consensual sex among young people is rare. This important volume presents a disturbing picture of non-consensual sex among girls as well as boys, and among married as well as unmarried young women in a variety of settings. This volume documents, moreover, the expanse of non-consensual experiences that young people face - from unwanted touch to forced penetrative sex and gang rape. Although focusing on young females, it also sheds light on the experience of young males as both victims and perpetrators. Taking... more...









