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Tackling Domestic Violence: Theories, Policies and Practice [Paperback]

Lynne Harne (Author), Jill Radford (Author)
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  • Paperback: 216 pages
  • Publisher: Open University Press (1 July 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0335212484
  • ISBN-13: 978-0335212484
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 68,367 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This accessible text takes a multi-disciplinary approach to exploring issues surrounding domestic violence. It draws on contemporary research findings, policy developments, innovative practice and case studies to explore new directions in professional and voluntary sector responses to domestic violence.

Centred on the United Kingdom, but located in a context of global change, the book discusses and critically evaluates new criminal justice and multi-agency initiatives such as domestic violence courts and risk assessment conferences, as well as assessing how far these initiatives improve the safety of women and children.

Harne and Radford aim to disseminate ideas about best practice in relation to dealing with this sensitive and still controversial issue. They use real-life case studies from professionals, including the police, health services and Women’s Aid, and are inclusive of the experiences of a wide range of survivors, in order to enable an understanding of the need for appropriate responses, depending on different survivor needs.

Tackling Domestic Violence provides an informed background for professionals in the police, probation, health and social care services, the legal system and voluntary sector with a remit to respond to domestic violence. It is also highly relevant to those undertaking courses on domestic violence at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

About the Author

Lynne Harne is currently associated with the Violence against Women Research Group, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK. She has been teaching and researching issues of violence against women and children since the early l990’s and has worked for the women’s legal organisation Rights of Women and the Rape Crisis Federation.

Jill Radford is Professor of Criminology and Women’s Studies at the University of Teesside, UK. She has been working around the issues of sexual and domestic violence for 30 years and is a founding member and Chair of the Tees Valley Sexual Violence Forum and a member of the Middlesbrough Domestic Violence Forum.

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Love it 12 Jan 2012
By Jules
LOVE IT! This book has helped so much during my degree! Its easy to read and looks at domestic violence from different angles unlike some domestic violence books which I found focus mainly on the womans point of view.
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It's Ok... 14 Dec 2010
By Amy
The book is alright if you are looking for a description of the types of domestic violence and legislation concerned. It also provides an insight to the impacts on children. However, it seems to miss the causes of domestic violence, i.e. why people are domestically violent and what help is available to them. It is very mother and child centered and does not demonstrate an awareness of men as victims. Furthermore, it doesn't go into detail about abuse in other relationships such as same-sex and violence against family members. The book was not greatly useful to me as I was doing an assignment on male victims, however it did provide me with basic ground knowledge of the types of domestic violence - again, all centered around the women as the victim.
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