White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking
Global efforts to combat human trafficking are ubiquitous and reference particular ideas about unfreedoms, suffering, and rescue. The discourse has, however, a distinct racialized legacy that is lodged specifically in fears about "white slavery," women in prostitution and migration, and the defilement of white womanhood by the criminal and racialized Other. White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking centers the legacies of race and racism in contemporary anti-trafficking wor...
The Future of Batterer Programs (Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law)
by Edward W. Gondolf
Batterer programs are at a critical juncture, with a handful of experimental program evaluations showing little or no effect from the prevailing program approach. This finding has prompted calls to overhaul or replace such programs. Edward W. Gondolf examines batterer research in light of the push for "evidence-based practice" and advocates a progressive evolution of batterer intervention as it currently stands. Cautioning against the call for programs based on a "new psychology," he argues that...
This is a true story with a happy ending. It is the story of an ordinary family who thought they had a normal life. That was until the first disclosure of child sexual abuse through the perversions of a predator who lived in the bosom of this family. Despite the pain, suffering and trauma there was always love and many happy moments. This proves that love can and does conquer all. It is about a dad who has faced many atrocities and had his whole life turned upside down. But he fought hard for th...
'This all began quite unexpectedly one rainy autumn evening a couple of years ago in a fairground near to the centre of Nottingham...' In amongst the bright lights and bumper cars, Nick Davies noticed two boys, no more than twelve years old, oddly detached from the fun of the scene. Davies discovered they were part of a network of children selling themselves on the streets of the city, running a nightly gauntlet of dangers: pimps, punters, the Vice Squad, disease, drugs. This propelled Davies in...
Integrated Systems Model for Preventing Child Sexual Abuse
by Adele D. Jones, Ena Trotman Jemmott, and Priya E Maharaj
El Chirrido de Los Columpios (Guy Giard Love's Healing Journey)
by Guy Giard
On a summer night in 1984, nineteen-year-old UC Berkeley sophomore Karen Thomas leaves her uniformed patrol job and walks home alone in darkness. At the threshold of her apartment a man assaults her at knife point. After a soul-chilling struggle, she manages to escape. Though she is left traumatized by her assault and the subsequent trial of her attacker, she herself goes on to become a criminal defense lawyer, defending those accused of crimes as heinous as the one committed against her. Fast...