Institutional Harassment - Divorce, Abuse, and the Legal System

This book offers a psychological approach to several forms of harassment often experienced in divorce cases in the justice system, including intimate partner aggression, sexual abuse of children, the unscientific parental alienation syndrome, and the weaponization of the legal system from aggressors seeking revenge.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Intimate Partner Aggression
Chapter 2 Sexism, Machismo and Patriarchy
Chapter 3 Child Sexual Abuse
Chapter 4 Influences on Gardner's Ideas
Chapter 5 The Moral Dilemma Posed by the False Parental Alienation Syndrome: Protect the Children or Obey the Justice System
Chapter 6 Are Children Manipulable?
Chapter 7 Techniques for Evaluating the Veracity of a Testimony
Chapter 8: Legal Harassment: Using the Judicial System to Commit Violence
Chapter 9: Dark Personality and Moral Disengagement in the Context of Couple Relationships
Chapter 10: Revenge on the Other Parent
Chapter 11: Institutional Violence or Legal Violence?

About the author

Miguel Clemente is professor in the Department of Psychology at Universidad de A Coruña.

Summary

This book offers a psychological approach to several forms of harassment often experienced in divorce cases in the justice system, including intimate partner aggression, sexual abuse of children, the unscientific parental alienation syndrome, and the weaponization of the legal system from aggressors seeking revenge.

Product details

• Authors: Miguel Clemente-Diaz, Miguel Clemente-Díaz
• Assisted by: Daniel Miguelanez Munilla (Translation), Daniel Migueláñez Munilla (Translation)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781666902532
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-253-2
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Child, developmental & lifespan psychology, Child & developmental psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Age groups: children