Secondhand Social Studies Bargain Book Box SP4154

Secondhand Social Studies Bargain Book Box SP4154

Fourteen books on violence and the family, academic and practical: James Gilligan’s Violence and Preventing Violence, Linda Mills’s Insult to Injury, Gondolf’s Psychiatric Response to Family Violence, the Ohlin and Tonry Crime and Justice volume, Skynner and Cleese’s Families and How to Survive Them, the National Committee on Violence report, two Victorian parliamentary inquiry reports and The Anger Fallacy. A working shelf for a social worker, counsellor or criminology student.

1. Psychiatric Response to Family Violence: Identifying and Confronting Neglected Danger — Edward W. Gondolf — How psychiatric wards miss abuse in the patients they treat, and what to do about it. Hardback.
2. Inquiry into Strategies to Deal with the Issue of Community Violence: Second Report — Social Development Committee, Parliament of Victoria — December 1988, with particular reference to children, young people and families.
3. Inquiry into Strategies to Deal with the Issue of Community Violence: Third and Final Report — Social Development Committee, Parliament of Victoria — May 1989, with particular reference to mass media and entertainment industries.
4. Violence in and around Licensed Premises — Victorian Community Council Against Violence — The study of pub and club violence that shaped Victorian liquor licensing.
5. Families and How to Survive Them — Robin Skynner & John Cleese — A psychiatrist and the Monty Python man in conversation about why we choose the partners we do and raise the children we do. Funny, wise, and the best introduction to family therapy there is. Hardback with the Handelsman cartoons.
6. Violence: Directions for Australia — National Committee on Violence — The 1990 report that set the national agenda, with the skeleton-and-axe cover.
7. Insult to Injury: Rethinking Our Responses to Intimate Abuse — Linda G. Mills — The NYU law professor’s argument that mandatory arrest and prosecution can harm the women they’re meant to protect. Controversial and influential.
8. Taking Care of Yourself and Your Family: A Resource Book for Good Mental Health — John Ashfield — The beyondblue-supported self-help guide, 10th edition.
9. Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic — James Gilligan — A prison psychiatrist on why men kill: shame, and the need to be respected. Important and absorbing, said the Boston Globe; the most-cited book in the field.
10. The Anger Fallacy: Uncovering the Irrationality of the Angry Mindset — Steven Laurent & Ross G. Menzies — Two Australian clinical psychologists argue that anger is never useful and can be unlearned.
11. Family Violence — ed. Lloyd Ohlin & Michael Tonry — Crime and Justice volume 11: the research review that defined the field in 1989. University of Chicago.
12. A Private Affair? Stopping Men’s Violence to Women — Ken McMaster & Peter Swain — The New Zealand programme for men who batter, and how to run one.
13. Preventing Violence — James Gilligan — The short companion to Violence, in the Prospects for Tomorrow series: what prisons, schools and welfare could do. Thames & Hudson.
14. Family Violence: Everybody’s Business, Somebody’s Life — Federation Press — Essays from the Australian conference, with the typographic cover.