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"The first principle in the management of the guilty seems to me to be to treat them as men and women; which they were before they were guilty, and will be when they are no longer so; and which they are in the midst of it all. Their humanity is the principal thing about them; their guilt is a temporary state. The insane are first men, and secondarily diseased men; and in a due consideration of this order of things lies the main secret of the successful treatment of such. The drunkard is first a man and secondarily a man with a peculiar weakness. The convict is, in like manner, first a man, and then a sinner…; but when the keeper watches a hundred men herded together in virtue of the one common characteristic of their being criminals, the guilt becomes the prominent circumstance and there is an end of the brotherly faith in each, to which each must mainly owe his cure. This, in our human weakness, is the great evil attendant upon the good of collecting together sufferers under any particular physical or moral evil. Visitors are shy of the blind, the deaf and dumb, and insane, when they see them all together, while they would feel little or nothing of this shyness, if they met each sufferer in the bosom of his own family. In the one case, the infirmity, defying sympathy, is the prominent circumstance; in the other, not." Harriet Martineau.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Table of Cases -- Table of Statutes -- 1 The Extent of Domestic Violence -- Introduction -- New Problem? -- 2 What is Domestic Violence? -- Introduction -- The Nature of Domestic Violence -- 1 Physical assault -- 2 Sexual violence -- 3 Threats of violence -- 4 Psychological abuse -- 5 Emotional consequences -- Why Don't Women Leave? -- 1 Severity and frequency of violence -- 2 Experience with and exposure to violence as a child -- 3 Education, occupation, number and age of children -- The Reasons for Domestic Violence -- 1 Pathological factors -- 2 Social factors -- 3 Cycles of violence -- 4 The feminist explanation -- 3 Civil Protection before 1997 -- Introduction -- Statutory Applicants -- 1 The Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 -- 2 The Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 -- 3 The Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 -- Remedies -- 1 Non-molestation and exclusion, Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 -- 2 Personal protection orders and ouster orders under the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 -- Enforcement of Orders -- Adequate Protection? -- 4 Protection After 1997 -- Introduction -- The Applicants -- 1 Applicants for occupation orders -- 2 Applicants for non-molestation orders -- 3 Applications by third parties -- The Orders -- 1 Occupation orders -- Section 33 - orders where the applicant is entitled or has matrimonial home rights -- Section 35 - orders where the applicant is a non-entitled former spouse and respondent former spouse is entitled -- Section 36 - orders where the applicant is a non-entitled cohabitant or former cohabitant and the respondent is entitled.

Since 9/11, the war on terror and the campaign for homeland security have increasingly mimicked the tactics of the enemies they sought to crush. Violence and punishment as both a media spectacle and a bone-crushing reality have become prominent and influential forces shaping U.S. society. As the boundaries between 'the realms of war and civil life have collapsed,' social relations and the public services needed to make them viable have been increasingly privatized and militarized. The logic of profitability works its magic in channeling the public funding of warfare and organized violence into universities, market-based service providers, Hollywood cinema, cable television, and deregulated contractors. The metaphysics of war and associated forms of violence now creep into every aspect of U.S. society. Adapted from the source document.

Explores the deep-rooted nature of family and community-based violence in sub-Saharan Africa; topics include urban violence in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire and in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, North-South violence in Chad, and domestic violence in Westbury, a mixed-race South African township; anthropological perspective; 5 articles. Summaries in English p. 212. Contents: La violence faite à l'individu (la communauté au révélateur de la sorcellerie), by Alain Marie; Vivre ensemble ou la douleur d'être "en grande famille", by Pierre Janin; Les violences ordinaires ont une histoire: le cas du Tchad, by Claude Arditi; Guerre des loyers dans les bidonvilles de Nairobi, by Marie-Ange Goux; "Maman bat Papa": la loi sur la violence domestique à Sophiatown, Johannesburg, by Julia Hornberger.

A special thematic issue of Peace Review titled "Linguistic Violence" & edited by Brien Hallett & Mary Tiles presents 18 essays by different authors & an introduction by Hallett, who classifies the essays into categories of exploration, exemplification, & strategy. Exploratory essays treat linguistic violence at an abstract conceptual level in terms of either the relationship of language & power or the ramifications of a comprehensive theory of language. The maneuvering of language by power is exemplified by studies of military & geopolitical uses of words including peace; linguistic & cultural effects of rapid political & social change are examined in the contexts of Africa & the former USSR. The deleterious physiological effects of violent language are outlined, & violent language in films is discussed. Strategies of replacement of violent language by nonviolent language are addressed in systematic terms & in personal & classroom contexts; whereas the potential of a strategy of silence is the focus of studies that highlight the positive, enabling power of listening & the use of silence to reject the language game. 67 References. J. Hitchcock