Author: Adrienne E. Adams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abused women
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: Aldo Alvarez-Risco
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030455335
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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This book describes a broad view of sustainability as a crucial factor for the success of its implementation. Not only the environmental aspects of the sustainable cities ́ development are reviewed but the economic and social aspects of it, as highlighted in the UN Sustainable Development Goal 11 (make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable). Nowadays, researchers, students, and stakeholders are highly involved in sustainability issues. Because of this, they need a guiding document to help them develop and implement sustainability programs at the level of companies and institutions. In this book, the authors discuss and explain basic concepts of sustainability-related to social, economic and environmental aspects, as well as strategies for its implementation.

Author: Judy L. Postmus
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978804911
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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Each year, millions of women throughout the world experience violence and abuse at the hands of their intimate partner. Abusers coercively control them by using a variety of tactics ranging from physical or sexual violence to emotional or psychological abuse. An additional tactic often used includes financial abuse in which the abuser controls the money in the family, exploits the victim’s financial standing, and interrupts her efforts to be self-sufficient. The impact of financial abuse can leave women financially trapped in the relationship with limited financial management skills, knowledge, or self-confidence. Indeed, survivors often mention financial barriers as a top reason for keeping them trapped by the abuser in the relationship. Curiously, little of the research on domestic violence has sought to either fully understand the impact of financial abuse or to determine which intervention strategies are most effective for the financial empowerment of survivors. Building Financial Empowerment for Survivors of Domestic Violence aims to address this critical knowledge gap by providing those who work with survivors of domestic violence with practical knowledge on how to empower the financial well-being and stability of survivors. Specifically, every practitioner, human service provider, criminal justice practitioner, financial manager, and corporate supervisor should be screening the women they encounter for economic abuse, and when such abuse is found, they should work with the women toward developing financial safety plans and refer survivors to financial empowerment programs to assist survivors to become free from abuse.

Author: Cliff Roberson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351002686
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 521

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This authoritative volume explores different perspectives on economic and social justice and the challenges presented by and within the criminal justice system. It critically discusses key concerns involved in realizing economic and social justice, including systemic issues in economic and social justice, issues related to organizations and social institutions, special issues regarding specific populations, and a review of national and international organizations that promote economic justice. Addressing more than just the ideology and theory underlying economic and social justice, the book presents chapters with practical examples and research on how economic and social justice might be achieved within the criminal justice systems of the world. With contributions from leading scholars around the globe, this book is an essential reference for scholars with an interest in economic and social justice from a wide range of disciplines, including criminal justice and criminology as well as sociology, social work, public policy, and law.

Author: Marta Garnelo
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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According to global survey data, 30 percent of women who have ever been in a relationship have experienced physical and/or sexual violence, perpetrated by their intimate partner. In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), it is estimated that 29.8 percent of ever partnered women have been physically or sexually abused by their partners. This report leverages insights from the behavioral sciences, including behavioral economics, social psychology and neuroscience, to provide recommendations to improve the design of survivor services in the LAC region and, ultimately, to lead to better life outcomes for women. We aim to provide policymakers and service providers alike with: 1) A diagnosis informed by qualitative research of potential behavioral barriers that service providers and survivors face in the process of delivering and accessing services, respectively; and 2) Proposed interventions ideas, informed by a review of the behavioral science literature, that can be tailored to existing services and evaluated for impact.

Author: Kathryn Kay Showalter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intimate partner violence
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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Interviews with individual survivors of IPV were also conducted for this study in a large Midwestern city. Participants receiving services at a partner agency were interviewed about their experiences of employment instability, workplace disruptions (including with technology), and their perceptions of policy and practices that employers use to support employees experiencing abuse. Findings revealed that survivors suffered a range of employment instability forms (e.g. missing hours of work and forced resignation) when they were experiencing IPV. Further, technology (i.e. computers and cell phones) was used to harass nearly every participant interviewed. Survivors had constructive feedback and practical suggestions for employers based on their experiences managing employment with IPV. Findings from FFCW and individual interviews were integrated into a convergent mixed methods portion of the study. Using three forms of employment instability to create parallel (i.e. missing hours of work, losing weeks worked, and unemployment), the study expanded upon current knowledge. While there were differences between findings of missing hours of work, integrated results offer explanation to the inconsistency in related literature on employment instability types as well as duration of abuse’s effect on employment. Insights for practitioners, policy makers, and future researchers are discussed.

Author: Stella M. Resko
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing
ISBN: 9781593325510
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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Resko examines the relationship between womenOCOs economic wellbeing and intimate partner violence. Using data from the Fragile Families Survey, she examines hypotheses shaped by stress theory and social exchange theory and investigates racial and ethnic differences in these models. Her results support the notion that improving womenOCOs economic position can reduce intimate partner violence. Little evidence supported the backlash hypothesis, but in some situations menOCOs poor performance in the labor force may be associated with an increased abuse. The strength of these results, however, differs across racial and ethnic groups. These explanations may not adequately explain partner violence among African American women and Latinas."

Author: Maddy Coy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040015514
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199

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Analyzing what is known about violence against women, this book centers on the contrast between the U.S.’s historic focus on a criminal legal framework and the human rights lens used globally by feminist activists. Distilling the existing evidence base and literature on violence against women in the United States, this book includes an overview of forms of violence, the prevalence of violence, contexts in which violence occurs, and debates about intervention and prevention. It engages with how human rights frameworks define violence against women as a cause and consequence of women’s inequality, and explores how race, ethnicity, class, citizenship status, and sexual orientation shape experiences of victimization, perpetration, and institutional responses. Chapters synthesize prevalence methods and data, key feminist concepts, impacts and aftermath of violence, what is known about perpetrators, the history of anti-violence activism, violence against women on college campuses and in the media, and how the criminal legal systems respond. Contested issues, such as prostitution and pornography, and the extent to which commercial sex can be understood as a form of, and/or context for, violence against women, are also explored. The book closes with a final chapter offering directions for adopting a human rights approach to ending violence against women in the United States. By offering an analysis of how violence against women has come to be named in activist, policy, and academic arenas, Violence Against Women in the US is an essential resource for students, scholars, and practitioners.

Author: Jody Raphael
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
ISBN: 1555538525
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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Skillfully interweaving Bernice's own eloquent words about her harrowing abuse with descriptions of other women's similar experiences and a rich synthesis of statistical findings, Jody Raphael demonstrates convincingly that domestic violence and dependence on public assistance are intricately linked. In a work that is sure to stir controversy, she challenges traditional views and stereotypes (conservative and liberal) about welfare recipients, arguing that many poor women are neither lazy nor paralyzed by a "culture of poverty," but instead are trapped by their batterers. Bernice's ordeals at the hands of her abusive partner -- brutal beatings, violent rapes, threats on her life, stalking, blocked access to birth control, and sabotage of efforts to find a job -- resonate throughout the work. The experiences she relates provide crucial insights into the welfare system and illuminate its failures, successes, and potential in helping women like her. This disquieting yet inspiring book puts a human face on the heated public policy debate over welfare reform. Above all, it is Bernice's life story and, through her voice, the story of countless other battered women who are isolated in poverty and welfare by the power and control of their abusers.

Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309220246
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Measuring the social and economic costs of violence can be difficult, and most estimates only consider direct economic effects, such as productivity loss or the use of health care services. Communities and societies feel the effects of violence through loss of social cohesion, financial divestment, and the increased burden on the healthcare and justice systems. Initial estimates show that early violence prevention intervention has economic benefits. The IOM Forum on Global Violence Prevention held a workshop to examine the successes and challenges of calculating direct and indirect costs of violence, as well as the potential cost-effectiveness of intervention.