Addressing violence, abuse, and oppression
Subtitle: debates and challenges
By: [edited by] Barbara Fawcett and Fran Waugh.
Contributors: Fawcett, Barbara, Ph. D.; Waugh, Fran, 1955-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Social service; Human services; Violence; Victims of family violence; Women -- Abuse of; People with disabilities -- Abuse of
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Women and violence / Barbara Fawcett; title: Men and violence / Maurice Hanlon; title: Trapped within poverty and violence / Deborah Hart; title: Towards healing : recognizing the trauma surrounding aboriginal family violence / Karen Menzies and Lorna McNamara; title: Feminisms and domestic violence within national policy contexts / Ruth Phillips; title: "Violence", criminal justice, the law, policy, and practice / Lesley Laing; title: Challenging the second closet : intimate partner violence between lesbians / Jude Irwin; title: Violence against women in rural settings / Margot Rawsthorne; title: Violence against children within the family / Fran Waugh; title: Violence and the state : asylum seeker children / Denise Lynch; title: Out of the asylum : from restraint to freedom? / Zita Weber; title: Violence against the self, self harm, and suicide / Agi O'Hara; title: Disability and violence / Barbara Fawcett; title: Older people and violence / Lindsey Napier and Fran Waugh; title: Human service professionals : violence and the workplace / Rosalie Pockett; title: Conclusion.