Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression : Debates and Challenges (Paperback)

Section One 1. Introduction 2. Women and Violence 3. Men and Violence 4. Trapped Within Poverty and Violence 5. Towards Healing: Recognizing the Trauma Surrounding Aboriginal Family Violence Section Two 6. Feminisms and Domestic Violence: Within National Policy Contexts 7. ‘Violence’, Criminal Justice, the Law, Policy and Practice 8. Challenging the Second Closet: Intimate Partner Violence Between Lesbians 9. Violence Against Women in Rural Settings Section Three 10. Violence Against Children Within the Family 11. Violence and the State: Asylum Seeker Children 12. Out of the Asylum: From Restraint to Freedom? 13. Violence Against the Self, Self Harm and Suicide 14. Disability and Violence 15. Older People and Violence 16. Human Service Professionals: Violence and the Workplace 17. Conclusion