Gender-based discrimination, harassment, and violence against women in the home, workplace, and society at large are continuing topics of legislati...

Sexual harassment is intimidation, bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for se...

In recent years, a number of high-profile incidents of sexual violence at institutions of higher education (IHEs) have heightened congressional and...

The eleven essays and the introduction included in this collection offer an interdisciplinary reflection on the multifarious intersections of sexua...

The symposium "Sleepers, Moles, and Martyrs: Secret Identifications, Societal Integration, and the Differing Meanings of Freedom" held in Reinhause...

This new book presents analyses crucial for understanding the current situation with respect to this insidious and cowardly phenomenon.

"Our voices scrubbed out and forgotten. There are those who research and write about sex workers who often forget we are human." --Amy Lebovitch S...

Abuse in dating relationships is common among adolescents. Dating abuse has a plethora of negative associated conditions or consequences. Despite t...

If one culprit is suspected above all others for encouraging society to become more violent and unfeeling, it is television. This medium, which has...

How can we seek justice and redress for the sexual abuse of children and better prevent its occurrence? This work brings together the thoughts on t...

Victims of Violence: Support, Challenges and Outcomes critically exposes some of the factors used in the risk determination of intimate partner vio...

Domestic violence is control by one partner over another in a dating, marital or live-in relationship. The means of control include physical, sexua...

This is a volume of essays on post-civil war Central American narrative, bringing together leading experts in Central American literary and cultura...

Violent attacks on women occur in almost every area of daily life. Victims often face trauma physically, emotionally and sexually. The processing o...

Perceptions of vulnerability to violence and crime may be affected by differential exposure to risk and by individual, social and contextual factor...

Three decades ago this year (2017), Woodrow W. Clark completed his PhD thesis at the University of California, Berkeley on Violence in Public Schoo...

What is happening to the social fabric of America? Children are afraid to go to school for fear that another lunatic will decide to shoot up the st...

Every time a young person is harmed by violence, our nation's future strength and growth are jeopardised. We are losing our next generation of youn...

This important book deals with the problem of youth violence by attacking it at the grass-roots level -- the community.