Product Description: First published in 1985, this book looks at the victimisation of women, focusing on the four main areas of incest, rape, physical violence, and sexual harassment. Elizabeth Stanko’s work is based on original research and interviews with police forces, victims and others involved...read more

Product Description: The media often makes sense of violence in terms of 'randomness' and 'evil'. But the reality, as the contributors to The Meanings of Violence demonstrate, is far more complex. Drawing on the diverse subject matter of the ESRC's Violence Research Programme - from interviews with killers to discussions with children in residential facilities - this volume locates the meaning of violence within social contexts, identities and social divisions...read more

Product Description: Forms of violence differ; when and how violence occurs differs - yet violence is too often taken as one kind of phenomenon. This collection presents an approach to the study of violence that refuses to standardise its meaning by looking solely to criminal statute. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What is it about crime that makes it `men's work'? Can we imagine masculinity without crime? This is the first book of its kind to bring contributors from three continents together to examine the relationship between masculinity and crime...read more

This book should be of interest to upper-level undergraduate and professional.