Violence risk assessment requires a well-formulated and comprehensive risk management plan. With numerous clinical case studies, this book illustrates the process of conducting violence risk assessments, outlines the tools used in these evaluations, and explains how information …
This textbook analyzes the causes, dynamics, and nature of male crime and aggression. Written for both undergraduate and graduate level students, this textbook takes a multidisciplinary approach to male criminality. The study of crime and criminals has typically either focused s…
MALE CRIME AND DEVIANCE seeks to explore in-depth the types of offenses most identified with and committed by males, dynamics of male crime, characteristics of male offenders, how male criminality and delinquency compare with and differ from female delinquent and criminal behavi…
The authors describe and analyze the experience of couples who chose to remain together in spite of violence, while trying to make sense of the pain guilt, terror and humiliation.
This book presents a guide to the development of a coordinated community response to domestic assault, based on the Duluth Model and on the perspectives of practitioners, scholars, and researchers. The introduction describes the Duluth Model from its origins in 1980, including i…
This book outlines the scope of the issue of violence against women and debunks current attempts to label intimate violence as gender neutral. It lays bare the structural practices that sustain this violence, leading to a discussion of long- and short-term policies to address th…