Family Law category: 810 books
by Nazreen Mohammed
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
The true story of Dane Abdool, one of the youngest men on Floridas death row. The events that took him there, an immigrant familys struggle for justice that evades them and the pain, devastation and misunderstanding that follows them as Dane waits; time being his only friend. A mothers story, about...
A Practical Guide to Fostering Law
Fostering Regulations, Child Care Law and the Youth Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
A Practical Guide to Fostering Law is an accessible, jargon-free guide to the key elements of the law that concern foster carers and the professionals who work with them.
It aims to help foster carers understand where they fit into the complex web of regulations surrounding childcare and to...
It Doesn't Have to Be That Way
How to Divorce Without Destroying Your Family or Bankrupting Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Maria Shriver, Kim Kardashian, Stevie Wonder, Britney Spears . . . Who do they have in common? Top LA divorce lawyer Laura Wasser.
If anyone ever had a platform to write a how to divorce book for today's generation, it's Laura Wasser. She has been practicing in her field for nearly twenty years,...
How to Work with Sex Offenders
A Handbook for Criminal Justice, Human Service, and Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
How to Work with Sex Offenders is a cutting edge, state-of-the-art book that provides mental health professionals best practice techniques on how to clinically evaluate, interview, and treat this challenging patient population. Successful models of individual, family, and group models of psychotherapy...
The Transgender Myth
Through the Gender Looking Glass
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Paula had a great childhood believing she was a girl. She dreamed of being a 50's-TV-style mom, just like Donna Reed and June Cleaver. Just like her own mother. When she was enrolled in a school that separated boys and girls, she faced the realization that she was a boy, and soon, the harsh realization;...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
This book examines the competing regimes of law and religion an offers a multidisciplinary approach to demonstrate the global scope of their influence. It argues that the tension between these two institutions results from their disagreements about the kinds of rule that should govern human life and society, and from where they should be derived.
We Are Not Alone
A Teenage Girl's Personal Account of Incest from Disclosure Through Prosecution and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This step-by-step guide is designed to help sexually abused teenage girls through the legal and emotional processes of dealing with what has been done to them. We Are Not Alone: A Teenage Girl's Personal Account of Incest from Disclosure Through Prosecution and Treatment tells the first-person story...
Quarterly Essay 30 Last Drinks
The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
When Mal Brough and John Howard announced the Northern Territory intervention in mid-2007, they proclaimed a child abuse emergency. In this riveting piece of reportage and analysis, Paul Toohey unpicks the rhetoric of emergency and tracks progress. One year on, have children been saved? Will Labor continue...
A Therapist's Guide to Growing Free
A Manual for Survivors of Domestic Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Help victims and survivors break the cycle of abuse!
Trying to get victims and survivors of domestic abuse to recognize their own victimization can be a frustrating experience. They often become so frightened, isolated, and self-doubting that they make excuses for the abuser. Combining psychological...
by Morris Panych
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Upon graduation from an educational institution that provides free room and board and is dedicated to freshman tutorials in applied criminology conducted by its post-graduate students, Gordon aims to build an innovative business with his former cellmate Carl. Then there’s the question of pregnant,...
The Forensic Mental Health System in Ontario
An Information Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
People who have a mental illness and who come in contact with the law have special needs. The mental health system or the criminal justice system alone cannot always meet those needs. The forensic mental health system is the place where the mental health system and the criminal justice system meet.
The...
We Are Not Alone
A Teenage Boy's Personal Account of Child Sexual Abuse from Disclosure Through Prosecution and Treat
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Any teenage boy who discloses sexual abuse is facing an emotional ordeal. However, the workbook We Are Not Alone: A Teenage Boy’s Personal Account of Child Sexual Abuse from Disclosure Through Prosecution and Treatment can help him understand and endure the process. As it tells the first-person...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Research on gender, sex, and crime today remains focused on topics that have been a mainstay of the field for several decades, but it has also recently expanded to include studies from a variety of disciplines, a growing number of countries, and on a wider range of crimes. The Oxford Handbook of Gender,...
by Sheila Hollins, Christiana Horrocks
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Have you ever been mugged or do you know someone who has? This story is about a young man called Charlie who is attacked in the street. The book shows how Charlie is helped by speedy police action, Victim Support and back-up from friends, family members and supporters.