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Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: The Black Community Perspective (Violence Against Women and Children)
Par Melissa Phillips, Shavonne Moore-Lobban, Milton A Fuentes. 2022
Child maltreatment occurs in the Black community at higher rates than any other racial group. Given the prevalence of child…
maltreatment risk factors in the Black community, such as being in a low-income family, single parent family, greater exposure to physical discipline, and less access to services and resources, it is not surprising but nonetheless concerning that Black children are at greater risk for abuse and/or neglect. Unearthing the cause and effect between the challenges faced by the Black community and the life outcomes for Black children is key to making positive changes happen. Through a feminist and womanist lens, the authors unpack the range of factors that intersect and impact the Black community that are necessary to address to effectively protect Black children. Understanding how to prevent maltreatment and promote health and wellness are essential to adequately address maltreatment so as to protect and empower Black children.Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: American Indian and Alaska Native Perspectives (Violence Against Women and Children)
Par Royleen J Ross, Julii M Green, Milton A Fuentes. 2022
This book is part of a concentrated series of books that examines child maltreatment across minoritized, cultural groups.Specifically, this volume…
addresses American Indian and Alaska Native populations. However, in an effort to contextualize the experiences of 574 federally recognized tribes and 50+ state recognized tribes, as well as villages, the authors focus on populations within rural and remote regions and discuss the experiences of some tribal communities throughout US history. It should be noted that established research has primarily drawn attention to the pervasive problems impacting Indigenous individuals, families, and communities. Aligned with an attempt to adhere to a decolonizing praxis, the authors share information in a strength-based framework for the Indigenous communities discussed within the text. The authors review federally funded programs (prevention, intervention, and treatment) that have been adapted for tribal communities (e.g., Safecare) and include cultural teachings that address child maltreatment. The intention of this book is to inform researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and advocates about the current state of child maltreatment from an Indigenous perspective.Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
Par Bernard Lefkowitz. 1997
In March 1989 a group of teenage boys lured a retarded girl into a basement in Glen Ridge, New Jersey,…
and gang-raped her. Glen Ridge was the kind of peaceful, affluent suburb many Americans dream about. The rapists were its most popular high school athletes. And although rumors of the crime quickly spread through the town, weeks passed before anyone saw fit to report it to the police. What made these boys capable of brutalizing a girl that some of them had known since childhood? Why did so many of their elders deny the rape and rally around its perpetrators? To solve this riddle, the Edgar award-winning author Bernard Lefkowitz conducted years of research and more than two hundred interviews. The result is not just a wrenching story of crime and punishment, but a hauntingly nuanced portrait of America's jock culture and the hidden world of unrestrained adolescent sexuality.Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria
Par Muhammad Najem, Nora Neus. 2022
A teenage boy risks his life to tell the truth in this gripping graphic memoir by youth activist Muhammad Najem…
and CNN producer Nora Neus. &“A story of journalism at its most inspiring, its most heartbreaking, its most essential. Muhammad is a reporter who brings hope to a damaged world.&” —John Berman, CNN anchor &“A powerful true story that demonstrates the power of one young person determined to change the world. Everyone should read this phenomenal book.&” —Victoria Jamieson, coauthor of When Stars Are Scattered &“What an amazing story this is! One family&’s struggle for survival in the chaos of Syria, and one boy&’s courageous decision to risk his life to tell the story. This graphic memoir is inspiring and exciting, powerful and very poignant. I loved it!&” —Anderson Cooper Muhammad Najem was only eight years old when the war in Syria began. He was thirteen when his beloved Baba, his father, was killed in a bombing while praying. By fifteen, Muhammad didn&’t want to hide anymore—he wanted to act. He was determined to reveal what families like his were enduring in Syria: bombings by their own government and days hiding in dark underground shelters. Armed with the camera on his phone and the support of his family, he started reporting on the war using social media. He interviewed other kids like him to show what they hope for and dream about. More than anything, he did it to show that Syrian kids like his toddler brother and infant sister, are just like kids in any other country. Despite unimaginable loss, Muhammad was always determined to document the humanity of the Syrian people. Eventually, the world took notice. This tenderly illustrated graphic memoir is told by Muhammad himself along with CNN producer Nora Neus, who helped break Muhammad&’s story and bring his family&’s plight to an international audience.From the UK's leading criminologist comes the true story of Margaret McLaughlin, and the man he believes was fitted up…
for her murder 'Enthralling ... will leave true crime readers with more to ponder than they bargained for' - The HeraldBefore David Wilson became the UK's pre-eminent criminologist, he was just a young boy growing up in the Scottish town of Carluke. When he was a child, the brutal murder of a young woman rocked this small community, but very quickly a man was arrested for the crime, convicted and put behind bars. For most, life slowly carried on - case closed. But there were whispers in the town that the wrong man was imprisoned. Over the years, these whispers grew louder, to the point that any time David would visit, he'd be asked in hushed tones, 'What are you going to do about the Carluke Case?'Carluke believed the real killer had evaded justice. A murderer was still on the loose.Forty years later, it's time for David to return home, and find out the truth.Maggie Hartley is one of the UK's most prolific foster mothers. This inspiring collection includes three heartbreaking, true short stories…
about the children who have passed through Maggie's care. TOO SCARED TO CRYWhen Ben and Damien arrive on Maggie's doorstep, the two toddlers are too scared to speak. More disturbingly still, their baby half-brother Noah is completely unresponsive - he doesn't smile or play or crawl. The three siblings have been conditioned to be seen and not heard, and it's up to Maggie to unpick what has caused this terrible void. THE GIRL NO ONE WANTEDEleven-year-old Leanne is out of control. With over forty placements in her short life, no local foster carers are willing to take in this angry and damaged little girl. Maggie is Leanne's only hope, and her last chance. If this placement fails, Leanne will be put in a secure unit. Where most others would simply walk away, Maggie refuses to give up on the little girl who's never known love. A FAMILY FOR CHRISTMASA tragic accident leaves the life of toddler Edward changed forever and his family wracked with guilt. Maggie must help this family grieve for the son they've lost and learn to love the little boy he is now. But will Edward have a family to go home to at Christmas?These heartwarming and inspiring short stories show the power of a foster mother's love, and her determination to help the children who come into her care.Note: These stories have previously been published as individual ebooks.Doing It: Let's Talk About Sex
Par Hannah Witton. 2017
SEXTING. VIRGINITY. CONSENT. THE BIG O... Sex-positive vlogger Hannah Witton covers it all.Nobody really has sex all figured out. So…
Hannah Witton wrote a book full of honest, hilarious (and sometimes awkward) anecdotes, confessions, and revelations. Hannah talks about doing it safely. Doing it joyfully. Doing it when you're ready. Not doing it. Basically, doing it the way you want, when you want (if you want).Doing It works as an introduction to sex as well as a guidebook for those who are already sexually active, with insight on topics such as healthy relationships, porn, contraception, sex shaming, and more. Approachable and empowering, this is a go-to resource for all things s-e-x.A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War (Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights)
Par Anton Weiss-Wendt, Douglas Irvin-Erickson. 2018
The Genocide Convention was drafted by the United Nations in the late 1940s as a response to the horrors…
of the Second World War But was the Genocide Convention truly effective at achieving its humanitarian aims or did it merely exacerbate the divisive rhetoric of Cold War geopolitics A Rhetorical Crime shows how genocide morphed from a legal concept into a political discourse used in propaganda battles between the United States and the Soviet Union Over the course of the Cold War era nearly eighty countries were accused of genocide and yet there were few real-time interventions to stop the atrocities committed by genocidal regimes like the Cambodian Khmer Rouge Renowned genocide scholar Anton Weiss-Wendt employs a unique comparative approach analyzing the statements of Soviet and American politicians historians and legal scholars in order to deduce why their moral posturing far exceeded their humanitarian actionAt War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (War Culture)
Par Susan Carruthers, Katherine Ellison, Scott Laderman, Christine Knauer, William Watson, John Kinder, Jennifer Mittelstadt, David Kieran, Jana Lipman, Edwin Martini, Mark Wilson, Christopher Hamner, Sahr Conway, Stefan Aune, Nick Witham, Wilbur Scott, Kara Vuic, Bonnie Miller, Professor G Kurt Piehler. 2018
The country s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan its interventions around the world and its global…
military presence make war the military and militarism defining features of contemporary American life The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life from the formation of racial and gendered identities to debates over environmental and immigration policy Warfare and the military are ubiquitous in popular culture At War offers short accessible essays addressing the central issues in the new military history ranging from diplomacy and the history of imperialism to the environmental issues that war raises and the ways that war shapes and is shaped by discourses of identity to questions of who serves in the U S military and why and how U S wars have been represented in the media and in popular cultureMeasuring Education Inequality in Developing Countries
Par Nichole Torpey. 2019
This book constructs a measure of education inequality using time-series cross-national data and utilizes real-world examples based on author interviews…
It provides insights into how classic trade theory might be applied more broadly to generate expectations not only about income distribution but also about investment in human capital The project explores the ways in which global trends toward urbanization and democratization might be expected to impact education inequality The author addresses contemporary issues in politics such as growing income inequality the backlash against globalization and free trade and concerns that democratic institutions are elite-dominated and unresponsive to the needs of common citizensHollow Norms and the Responsibility to Protect
Par Aidan Hehir. 2019
This book explains why there is a pronounced disjuncture between R2P s habitual invocation and its actual influence and…
why it will not make the transformative progress its proponents claim Rather than disputing that R2P is a norm or declaring that norms are insignificant Hehir engages with post-positivist constructivist accounts on the role of norms to demonstrate first that the efficacy of a norm is not directly related to the extent to which it is proliferated or invoked and second that in the post-institutionalization phase norms undergo both contestation and potentially regressive reinterpretation This volume analyses the evolution of R2P and demonstrates that it has been steadily circumscribed and co-opted so that today it has no power to meaningfully influence the behaviour of states It is essential reading for academic audiences in the disciplines of International Relations and International LawAdiós al 68
Par Joel Ju rez. 2018
Qu queda hoy de una generaci n a la que se le puede reclamar tanto como se…
le debe Adi s al 68 rechaza la mirada contemplativa con la que se ha construido la memoria de los movimientos sociales de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y lo que va del XXI Con la dolorosa valent a que requiere la autocr tica confronta al fantasma de aquellos que formaron la conciencia de un mundo mejor pero que s lo lograron moldear uno distinto Joel Ortega quiz el m s inteligente miembro activo de la generaci n mexicana de los a os sesenta hace un recorrido obligadamente inc modo que va de la ilusi n a la integraci n en la pol tica producto de la Revoluci n que se deconstruy para situarse en sus similitudes Este libro no es s lo el testimonio m s honesto que he le do sobre lo que vivi la generaci n de mis padres es el retrato de un sobreviviente del 2 de octubre del 68 y del 10 junio del 71 donde convergen Lucio Caba as la Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre la Uni n Sovi tica el EZLN el rechazo al poder hegem nico la transici n de la izquierda a la legalidad y la partidocracia Este diario pol tico -especie de testamento ideol gico- es la cr nica de una vida dedicada a pensar de la metamorfosis de aquella lucha y el anuncio del fin de un ciclo hist rico Maruan Soto AntakiArchaeologies of Touch: Interfacing With Haptics From Electricity To Computing
Par David Parisi. 2018
A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media Since the rise…
of radio and television, we have lived in an era defined increasingly by the electronic circulation of images and sounds. But the flood of new computing technologies known as haptic interfaces—which use electricity, vibration, and force feedback to stimulate the sense of touch—offering an alternative way of mediating and experiencing reality. In Archaeologies of Touch, David Parisi offers the first full history of these increasingly vital technologies, showing how the efforts of scientists and engineers over the past three hundred years have gradually remade and redefined our sense of touch. Through lively analyses of electrical machines, videogames, sex toys, sensory substitution systems, robotics, and human–computer interfaces, Parisi shows how the materiality of touch technologies has been shaped by attempts to transform humans into more efficient processors of information. With haptics becoming ever more central to emerging virtual-reality platforms (immersive bodysuits loaded with touch-stimulating actuators), wearable computers (haptic messaging systems like the Apple Watch’s Taptic Engine), and smartphones (vibrations that emulate the feel of buttons and onscreen objects), Archaeologies of Touch offers a timely and provocative engagement with the long history of touch technology that helps us confront and question the power relations underpinning the project of giving touch its own set of technical media.Governance and Political Adaptation in Fragile States
Par Helen Ware, John Idriss Lahai, Karin Von Strokirch, Howard Brasted. 2019
The book examines the various ways that fragile states (or states with limited statehood) in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and…
the Americas have adopted, and adapted to, the processes of liberal political governance in their quests to address the problem of political fragility. It presents the stories of resilience in the political adaptation to Western liberal conceptions of governance. In addition to singular or comparative country case studies, this project also examines the interplay of culture, identities, and politics in the creation of people-centric governance reforms. Towards these ends, this volume sheds light on weak states’ often constructive engagement in the promotion of state governance with a variety of political conditions, adverse or otherwise; and their ability to remain resilient despite the complex political, sociocultural, and economic challenges affecting them. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the authors aim to counter the noticeable shortcomings in the discursive representations of fragility, and to contribute a more balanced examination of the narratives about and impact of political adaption and governance in people’s lives and experiences.Development Aid in Stable Democracies and Fragile States
Par A H Kabir. 2019
This book is based on experience and reflections related to international support provided to parliaments and legislative bodies both in…
selected countries Afghanistan Bangladesh Ghana Serbia and Kyrgyzstan and globally The author intends to provide a critique of parliamentary support as part of development assistance or foreign aid for having been conceived in narrow terms of technical assistance and for failing to appreciate that aid effectiveness calls for a sound understanding of a country s politics culture and history The monograph examines the effectiveness of aid in both stable democracies and fragile and transition countries The project is ideal for audiences interested in regional politics the Middle East Africa South Asia Central Asia and development democracy studiesMass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe
Par David Stahel, Alex J. Kay. 2018
Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected…
by this violence. The works gathered consider sexual violence, food depravation, and forced labor as aspects of Nazi aggression. Contributors focus in particular on the Holocaust, the persecution of the Sinti and Roma, the eradication of "useless eaters" (psychiatric patients and Soviet prisoners of war), and the crimes of the Wehrmacht. The collection concludes with a consideration of memorialization and a comparison of Soviet and Nazi mass crimes. While it has been over 70 years since the fall of the Nazi regime, the full extent of the ways violence was used against prisoners of war and civilians is only now coming to be fully understood. Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe provides new insight into the scale of the violence suffered and brings fresh urgency to the need for a deeper understanding of this horrific moment in history.Hand to Mouth
Par Linda Tirado. 2014
"I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the…
book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would like to have written it myself - if, that is, I had lived Linda Tirado's life and extracted all the hard lessons she has learned. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. Tirado is the real thing." --from the foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice, takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and have a job, even two), but what poverty is truly like--on all levels. In her thought-provoking voice, Tirado discusses how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why "poor people don't always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should."My Two Worlds
Par Sergio Chejfec, Enrique Vila-Matas, Margaret Carson. 2008
An extraordinary meditation on experience writing and space My Two Worlds is about a writer lost in…
an unfamiliar Brazilian city searching for a park Struggling to match the two-dimensional map with reality and disturbed by the bad reviews his new book is receiving he begins to see his thoughts reflections and memories mirrored in the landscape and its inhabitantsVictimology: The Essentials (Sage Text/Reader Series In Criminology And Criminal Justice Ser.)
Par Leah E. Daigle. 2018
Victimology: The Essentials, Second Edition, is a comprehensive yet concise core textbook that explores the effects of victimization in the…
United States and internationally, with an emphasis on vulnerable populations. Drawing from the most up-to-date research, this accessible, student-friendly text provides an overview of the field of victimology, with a focus on the scope, causes, and responses to victimization today. Renowned author and researcher Leah E. Daigle expertly relays the history and development of the field of victimology, the extent to which people are victimized and why, and how the criminal justice system and other social services interact with victims and with each other. The highly anticipated Second Edition features contemporary issues such as stalking, hate crimes, human trafficking, terrorism, and more.One Child
Par Torey Hayden. 2004
Six-year-old Sheila never spoke, she never cried, and her eyes were filled with hate. Abandoned on a highway by her…
mother, unwanted by her alcoholic father, Sheila was placed in a class for emotionally disturbed children after she committed an atrocious act of violence against another child. Everyone said Sheila was lost forever, everyone except her teacher, Torey Hayden.Torey fought to reach Sheila, to bring the abused child back from her secret nightmare, because beneath the rage, Torey saw in Sheila the spark of genius. And together they embarked on a wondrous journey—a journey gleaming with a child's joy at discovering a world filled with love and a journey sustained by a young teacher's inspiring bravery and devotion.