Home Truths About Domestic Violence
While mens violence to women is an everyday, culturally supported activity, this Reader demonstrates that mens violence can be curtailed and that women and children can be assisted effectively; that state policies and provision can be improved; and that women can actively participate in the resolution of their difficulties. Bringing together new work and key papers, Home Truths About Domestic Violence provides a comprehensive overview and up-to-date account of the progress so far and identifies what still needs to be done. Areas covered include:
- womens experience of violence
- childrens experience of violence
- personal experiences of the justice system
- state policies on violence in the US and UK
- educational programmes and initiatives to combat violence.
This substantial Reader makes a significant contribution to the understanding of domestic violence from both a policy and a practice perspective. Together with its companion volume, Home Truths About Child Sexual Abuse, it provides an in-depth resource for a wide range of teachers, students and professionals, highlighting the diverse and complex dimensions of the problem of domestic violence.
Jalna Hanmer is Professor of Womens Studies at the International Centre for the Study of Violence and Abuse, University of Sunderland. Catherine Itzin is Research Professor in Social Work and Social Policy and Co-Director of the International Centre for the Study of Violence and Abuse, University of Sunderland.
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Home Truths About Domestic
Violence
Feminist influences on policy and practice
A reader
Edited by Jalna Hanmer and
Catherine Itzin
With Sheila Quaid and
Debra Wigglesworth
First published 2000
by Routledge
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Reprinted 2006
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2000 Selection and editorial matter, Jalna Hanmer and Catherine Itzin; individual chapters, the contributors
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Home truths about domestic violence: feminist influences on policy and practice: a reader/edited by Jalna Hanmer and Catherine Itzin with Sheila Quaid and Debra Wigglesworth.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Family violence. 2. Victims of family violence Services tor.
I. Hanmer, Jalna. II. Itzin, Catherine, 1944
HV6626 .H64 2001
362.8292dc21
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ISBN 0415241561 (hbk)
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Dedication
To women on the front line of violence in the home whose struggles against violent men inform every page.
David Adams, Ed. D., is co-founder and Program and Research Director of Emerge, the first counselling programme in the US for men who abuse women. His articles about men who batter and intervention programmes have been published in numerous books and journals.
Jackie Barron is a freelance researcher currently working for Womens Aid Federation England (WAFE) and the National Autistic Society. Author of Not Worth the Paper? (1990) and co-author of Councillors in Crisis (1991).
Kate Cavanagh, Ph.D., is a lecturer in Social Work in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at Glasgow University, Scotland. She is an activist, practitioner and researcher. Kate is co-editor of Working With Men: Feminism in Social Work (1997).
Thangam Debbonaire provides training, consultancy and research on domestic violence to UK organisations. She was National Childrens Officer for the Womens Aid England (19917) and co-author of Domestic Violence and Child Protection: A Practitioners Guide (2000).
R. Emerson Dobash is Professor of Social Research in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Manchester, and a co-director of the Violence Research Centre. Amongst co-authored books, numerous government reports, journal and anthology articles is Rethinking Violence Against Women (1999).
Russell P. Dobash is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Violence Research Centre. Amongst co-authored books, numerous government reports, journal and anthology articles is Changing Violent Men (2000).
Evelyn Gillan is Co-Director and founding member of the Zero Tolerance Charitable Trust. A qualified social worker, she has worked primarily in equalities campaigning, including the Womens Unit, Edinburgh District Council, as Campaigns and Promotions Officer from 198593.
Sue Griffiths, Ph.D., researches and teaches on the MA, Violence, Abuse and Gender Relations at Leeds Metropolitan University. She is an evaluator of the West Yorkshire Police Vulnerable Victims Project and a member of the campaign group, Justice for Women.
Gill Hague is a founder member of the University of Bristol Domestic Violence Research Group which conducts national and international studies. She has produced many publications on domestic violence and regards herself as an activist as well as an academic.
Jalna Hanmer is Professor of Womens Studies, International Centre for the Study of Violence and Abuse, University of Sunderland. She is currently evaluating the West Yorkshire Police Vulnerable Victims Project. Books she has co-authored and other publications include Arresting Evidence: Domestic Violence and Repeat Victimisation (1999).
Nicola Harwin is Director of the Womens Aid Federation England. She has developed policy and services, campaigned and researched for 25 years. Nicola is also an author and trainer in the field of domestic violence and a member of the Womens National Commission.
Marianne Hester is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sunderland, where she co-directs the International Centre for the Study of Violence and Abuse. She has researched many aspects of violence and abuse, including domestic violence and children.
Catherine Itzin, Ph.D., is Research Professor in Social Work and Social Policy and co-director of the International Centre for the Study of Violence and Abuse at the University of Sunderland. She has edited
