Journeys

Resilience and Growth for Survivors of Intimate Partner Abuse
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-28610-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

Reihe: Gender and Justice

More than one in three women in the United States has experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime. Luckily, many are able to escape this life—but what happens to them after? Journeys focuses on the desperately understudied topic of the resiliency of long-term (over 5 years) survivors of intimate partner violence and abuse. Drawing on participant observation research and interviews with women years after the end of their abusive relationships, author Susan L. Miller shares these women’s trials and tribulations, and expounds on the factors that facilitated these women’s success in gaining inner strength, personal efficacy, and transformation.

Written for researchers, practitioners, students, and policy makers in criminal justice, sociology, and social services, Journeys shares stories that hope to inspire other victims and survivors while illuminating the different paths to resiliency and growth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Prof. Susan L.

Miller, Susan L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Kindesmissbrauch, Sexueller Missbrauch, Häusliche Gewalt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Framing the Issues
2. Situating the Research Project
3. “Leaving the Horrible for the Not-So-Horrible”
4. Meaning Making and Post-Traumatic Growth
5. Support Networks and Structural Challenges
6. Paths to Survivorship and Suggestions for Policy
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Susan L. Miller is Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. She is the author of After the Crime: The Power of Restorative Justice Dialogues Between Victimsand Violent Offenders, and Victims as Offenders: The Paradox of Women's Violence in Relationships.