It's someone taking a part of you
by Jenny J. Pearce, Mary Williams, and Cristina Galvin
It's Someone Taking a Part of You explores the choices and opportunities available to young women who are at risk of, or experiencing, sexual exploitation. Based on 55 case studies, it presents young women's accounts of their experience of violence and sexual exploitation, providing both quantitative and qualitative data about the problems they face. It identifies three different categories of risk, and recommends interventions that could take place at each stage to support the young women con...
When does becoming part of the team go too far? For decades, young men and women endured degrading and dangerous rituals in order to join sororities and fraternities while college administrators blindly accepted their consequences. In recent years, these practices have spilled over into the mainstream, polluting military organizations, sports teams, and even secondary schools. In Destroying Young Lives: Hazing in Schools and the Military, Hank Nuwer assembles an extraordinary cast of analysts to...
This volume discusses sexual abuse of male children, the issues surrounding it and approaches to counselling survivors of childhood sexual abuse. It presents recent research findings from in-depth interviews with adult men who were abused in childhood, and describes how males respond to their abusive experiences in ways that are rarely understood. It discusses therapeutic issues for working with and providing care and help for male survivors, as well as presenting their powerful, painful and mov...
*Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014*'The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and white crepe paper when the rumour of a pack rape by celebrating footballers began to surface. By morning, the head of the sexual crimes squad confirmed to journalists that they were preparing to question two players ... And so, as police were confiscating bed sheets from a townhouse in South Melbourne, the trial by media began.'What does a young footba...
In this book, two experienced members of a specialist Child Sexual Abuse team present an integrated factual and theoretical account of child sexual abuse, and provide clear guidelines for professional intervention. Part one describes the characteristics of child sexual abuse and presents a critical account of current explanatory theories. Part two details the steps to be taken at all stages of the intervention process from suspicion, through disclosure and validation, to therapy. '...as a headte...
Military Sexual Assault
by Barbara Salazar Torreon and Kristy N. Kamarck
Violence Against Women
by Paul Thomas Clements, Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, Karyn E. Holt, Angelo P. Giardino, and Soraya Seedat
Written by professionals in the fields of clinical service and research, Violence Against Women provides a broad perspective on the causes and consequences of intimate partner violence. It examines a wide range of relationships that may be affected by intimate partner violence and takes a culturally sensitive, international approach to issues underpinning family violence, dating violence, and the injuries children suffer when their caregivers perpetrate violence. Violence Against Women offers i...