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Harmful Traditional Practices: Prevention, Protection, and Policing

By Gerry Campbell , Karl A. Roberts , Neelam Sarkaria

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
9781137533111, 9781137533128
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-53312-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2406004 bytes)
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
XIII, 203\204
Time added
2021-01-06 05:41:07
Criminology and Criminal Justice; Critical Crimino

Description

This book is about harmful traditional practices: damaging and often violent acts which include female genital mutilation, forced marriage, honour killings and abuse, breast ironing, witchcraft and faith-based abuse. Often targeting women and young girls, these practices are often justified on spurious religious or traditional grounds but are all forms of abuse. Roberts, Campbell and Sarkaria have backgrounds in psychology, policing and law and have spent many years working at the forefront of attempts to end these practices. Harmful Traditional Practices is therefore a uniquely pragmatic book which aims to inform readers about these acts while identifying the best approaches towards ending and prosecuting against them.

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