Sex, Drugs and Young People: International Perspectives
by Andrew Ball, Ball, MANE

Sex, Drugs and Young People calls into question the mainstream assumptions about adolescence and youth that underlie many of our understandings in relation to sexual practices and drug use among teenagers and young adults. The book provides a more complex view of the transition to adulthood as not merely biologically driven, but rather socially and culturally organized.

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Violence and Mental Disorder
A Critical Aid to the Assessment and Management of Risk

...This book provides an excellent resume of the current state of research on violence and mental disorder. The fact that it is a highly topical book that deserves a wide readership illustrates how important issues about risk are becoming in psychiatry today. It is understandable that the public and politicians want to focus on risk assessment in the hope of finding simple solutions to their concerns about safety. This book shows how far research is from providing such a simple solution.'

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Good Practice in Working with Victims of Violence
Edited by Hazel Kemshall and Jacki Pritchard

A broad spectrum of issues are covered, including:

* working with children who have been subjected to violence
* working with men who were sexually abused in childhood
* workplace bullying
* victims and mediation
* lesbian and gay experiences of crime and violence
* war trauma and the aftermath of violent political division
* violence in prisons

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Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence
by Robin Karr-Morse, Meredith S. Wiley

One in twenty children born today will spend some part of his or her adult life in jail. During the last thirty years, violent crimes committed by youth have risen by 371 percent. Cutting to the heart of this alarming trend, Ghosts from the Nursery gives startling new evidence that violent behavior is fundamentally linked to abuse and neglect in the first two years of life. In absorbing and accessible prose, Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith S. Wiley present case histories of "children who kill," along with the latest in brain development research. Ghosts from the Nursery compellingly demonstrates the poisonous effect that neglect, abuse, trauma, injury, and toxicity have in the first thirty-three months of life - and makes a convincing case for a revolution in our beliefs about the care of babies.

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