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Violence Against Women and Girls
The psychology of honor abuse, violence and killings.
EBook - Khan, R. 2025. Oxon: Routledge.
Honour-Based Abuse
Violence against women: criminological perspectives on men's violences.
EBook - Westmarland, N. 2025. Oxon: Routledge.
Policing rape : The way forward.
Ebook - Hohl, K. & Stanko, E. Routledge, 2024.
In control: dangerous relationships and how they end in murder.
eBook - Monckton-Smith, J. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.
Criminalization of violence against women: comparative perspectives.
eBook - Douglas, H. New York : Oxford University Press, 2024.
Do the beliefs of individual frontline police officers impact the prevention of controlling or coercive behaviour?
Thesis - Valentine, S. Portsmouth: University of Portsmouth, 2022.
The handbook on gender-responsive police services for women and girls subject to violence.
Report - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. 2021.
Investigating the demographic and attitudinal predictors of rape myth acceptance in UK police officers: developing an evidence-base for training and professional development.
Article - Murphy, A. and Hine, B. Psychology, Crime and Law. 2019, Vol. 25(1), pp. 69-89.
'No one likes a grass' female police officers' experience of workplace sexual harassment: a qualitative study.
Article - Davis, H. et al. International Journal of Police Science and Management. 2023, Vol. 25(2), pp. 183-195.
Gender-based violence: a comprehensive guide.
Ebook - Cham, Palgrave Macmillian, 2023.
The Angiolini Inquiry. Part 1: report.
Report - London, House of Commons, 2024.
Safer city for women and girls: The London tackling violence against women and girls strategy 2018-2021.
Report, London, Greater London Authority, 2019.
Mapping public place reported crime and harm against women and girls.
Thesis - Cambridge, Cambridge University, 2022.
Domestic homicides and suspected victim suicides 2022-2023 year 3 report.
Report - VKPP & Home Office, 2024.
Super-complaint on the police response to stalking.
Report - Suzy Lamplugh Trust, 2022.
Problem-focused coping strategies used by victims of gender violence across the stages of change.
Early Cite - Puente-Martinez, A. et al.
Violence Against Women, 3 December 2021.
Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Journal - Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Violence Against Women (VAW)
Journal - Violence Against Women (VAW)
Interventions to reduce violence against women and girls (VAWG) in public spaces.
Website - College of Policing, 2024.
Police library search - Live results on Violence Against Women and Girls.
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Online abuse of feminists as an emerging form of violence against women and girls.
Article - Lewis, R. et al. British Journal of Criminology. 2017, Vol. 57 Issue 6, p.1462-1481.
Gender-Related Violence and Young People: An Overview of Italian, Irish, Spanish, UK and EU Legislation.
Article - Alldred, P. and Biglia, B.
Children & Society. 2015, Vol. 29 Issue 6, p.662-675.
Mapping coercive violence.
Article - Monterrosa, A. E. et al.
Violence Against Women, 6 October 2022.
“Would your level of disgust change?” Accounting for variant reactions to fatal violence against women on social media.
Early Cite - Bleakley, P.
British Society of Criminolgy, 20 June 2022.
Ending violence against women: a challenge for development and humanitarian work.
Book - Pickup, F. et al. 2001. London: Oxfam GB
The gaslighting effect: a revealing look at psychological manipulation and narcissistic abuse.
Book - Steenbergen, R. 2018.
Honor-based violence: policing and prevention.
Book - Roberts, K. A. et al. 2014. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
Moving in the shadows: violence in the lives of minority women and children.
Book - Kelly, L. et al. 2016. Abingdon: Routledge.