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Hunger For Healing: Is There A Role For Introducing Restorative Justice Principles In Domestic Violence Services?, Marilyn Fernandez
Hunger For Healing: Is There A Role For Introducing Restorative Justice Principles In Domestic Violence Services?, Marilyn Fernandez
Sociology
Academicians and practitioners have increasingly recognized domestic violence, particularly the battering of women by their intimate partners, as a social and public health risk to women (Cherlin, Burton, Hurt, and Purvin 2004; Holtz and Furniss 1993; Johnson 2006, 2008; Mills 2008; Roberts 1996; Rosenbaum and O'Leary 1981). Despite the difficulty in estimating accurately the prevalence and incidence of intimate violence, the American Bar Association's Commission on Domestic Violence (2005) reported the following: 28 percent of all annual violence against women is perpetrated by intimates; by the most conservative estimate, each year one million women suffer nonfatal violence by an intimate …
Media Ecologies, Heather A. Horst, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Laura Robinson
Media Ecologies, Heather A. Horst, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Laura Robinson
Sociology
In this chapter, we frame the media ecologies that contextualize the youth practices we describe in later chapters. By drawing from case studies that are delimited by locality, institutions, networked sites, and interest groups (see appendices), we have been able to map the contours of the varied social, technical, and cultural contexts that structure youth media engagement. This chapter introduces three genres of participation with new media that have emerged as overarching descriptive frameworks for understanding how youth new media practices are defi ned in relation and in opposition to one another. The genres of participation—hanging out, messing around, and …