Harmful Traditional Practices: Prevention, Protection, and Policing

by Gerry Campbell, Karl A Roberts, Neelam Sarkaria, et al.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137533110
• ISBN13: 9781137533111
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"