Tackling Domestic Violence: Theories, Policies And Practice: Theories, Policies and Practice (UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Health & Social Welfare)

Lynne Harne and Jill Radford aim to provide
a resource for professionals and practitioners
in Tacking Domestic Violence. They use
a multi-disciplinary approach and draw on
contemporary research findings, policy
developments, innovative practice and also
cases studies by workers who are on the
front line. The major themes of the book are
women’s and children’s safety, complexity
and social inclusion, a focus on perpetrators
and the criminalisation of domestic violence,
the impacts of domestic violence on children,
preventing domestic violence and multi-agency
working. The inclusion of case studies from
a wide range of professionals, including the
police and health services, enables the reader
to gain an understanding of the different ways in
which show more domestic violence is approached. Harne
and Radford provide information about recent
innovative approaches and best practice by
domestic violence agencies making this book
a valuable resource for those working with
survivors of domestic violence. show less