Boys, childhood domestic abuse, and gang involvement : violence at home, violence on-road / Jade Levell ; with a foreword by Marianne Hester.

"Boys and young men have been previously overlooked in domestic violence and abuse policy and practice, particularly in the case of boys who are criminalized and labelled as gang-involved by the time they reach their teens. Jade Levell offers radical and important insights into how boys in this cont...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levell, Jade (Author)
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Children and violence.
Boys > Violence against.
Violence in children.
Family violence.
Gangs > Psychological aspects.
Gang members.
Physical Description:xvi, 200 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Masculinity, marginalisation, and patriarchal violence
  • Invisible victims of domestic abuse, hypervisible in gangs
  • Music as method
  • Childhood domestic violence and abuse
  • Learning how to be a man on-road
  • 'a man/'The Man' Love and fear
  • The road ahead
  • Policy links: why is 'domestic abuse' not 'serious violence'? A false dichotomy
  • Understanding the pathways from domestic abuse to gang involvement
  • Masculinity, vulnerability, and volence.