Innovations in Interventions to Address Intimate Partner Violence

by Alyson J. McGregor (Editor), Esther K. Choo (Editor), Bruce M. Becker (Editor)

This book is the first to focus on violent and/or ‘abusive’ behaviours in lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender, non-binary gender or genderqueer people’s intimate relationships. It provides fresh empirical data from a comprehensive mixed-methods study and novel theoretical insights to destabilise and queer existing narratives about intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA).

Survival Guide for Intimate Partner Violence

The book examines the successes and challenges of calculating direct and indirect costs of violence, as well as the potential cost-effectiveness of intervention.

Our contemporary capacity for understanding and empathy suggests that people are becoming less disposed to violence. At the same time, current developments in war technologies and the popularity of blood-soaked movies and video games point to the opposite conclusion. The works of Darwin hold crucial keys to the puzzle, yet his theories–and evolutionary theory in general–are often dismissed as relics, or worse.