Understanding Violence Against Women provides direction for increasing knowledge that can help ameliorate this national problem.
This book presents a range of critical reflections on the strengths and limitations of responses to violent crimes against women and how they have evolved to date.
Violence Against Women: A Week in the Life of America : a Majority Staff Report
The chapters in this book, contributed by some of the most prolific contemporary writers on women's issues, explore this culture of violence and oppression, examining its ideological underpinnings and its structural supports in the social, ...
This book is a collection of the experiences, insights, and ideas of leading professionals who work with women victims of violence, and who prosecute the perpetrators of such violence.
Chapters include: Is Violence Against Women a Serious Problem? What Causes Violence Against Women? Are Current Criminal Justice Approaches to Domestic Violence Effective? How Can Violence Against Women Be Reduced?
Women in India constitute nearly half of its population of over a billion people, and this book is a rigorous social scientific examination of the issue of violence against women in India.
This is an international, comparative survey which interviews random samples of women about their experiences with male violence. The authors form a management team for the International Violence Against Women Survey (IVAWS).
Violence Against Women as Bias Motivated Hate Crime: Defining the Issues
Violence Against Women: Victims of the System : Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred...