Restorative Approach to Family Violence - Feminist Kin-Making

A Restorative Approach to Family Violence looks backs at an early and successful demonstration of a family-and-culturally-based model to stop severe family violence.

List of contents

Chapter 1. A Restorative Approach-Narrative Threads
Chapter 2. FGDM Example-A Newfoundland Story
Chapter 3. FGDM Project Planning-Local Organizing, Emergent Responsive Regulation
Chapter 4. FGDM Conferencing-Resetting Narrative, Revitalizing Culture
Chapter 5. Concluding Possibilities-Cascading Trust in Families and Cultural Networks

About the author

Joan Pennell is Professor Emerita of Social Work and founding director of the Center for Family and Community Engagement at North Carolina State University. Before her return to the United States, she was principal investigator (with Dr. Gale Burford) of the Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, demonstration of family group decision making in situations of child maltreatment and domestic violence. In the US, she has conducted research on family group conferencing and other forms of engaging families in decision-making. She has a long-term commitment to the movements for gender, racial, and economic justice.

Summary

A Restorative Approach to Family Violence looks backs at an early and successful demonstration of a family-and-culturally-based model to stop severe family violence.

Product details

• Authors: Joan Pennell, Pennell Joan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9780367615253
• ISBN: 978-0-367-61525-3
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SELF-HELP / Abuse, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Coping with personal problems, Violence in society, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Violence and abuse in society, Coping with / advice about abuse