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Sharon Hayes, Sex, love and abuse: Discourses on domestic violence and sexual assault

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AuthorFrancis D Boateng
DOI10.1177/0004865816672141
Published date01 September 2017
Date01 September 2017
Subject MatterBook Reviews
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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 50(3)
and private sectors. Comparatively, the author shows evidence to suggest that the
Americans have been more successful in creating and utilizing social capital than the
Australians.
The f‌inal part (Part III) of‌fers ref‌lections and concludes the discussions of the previ-
ous chapters. The only chapter in this part—Chapter 6—provides a summary of the key
arguments made in the previous chapters and builds upon f‌indings from Chapters 4 and
5 to illustrate how future crime control ef‌forts might be reformed to establish social
capital in order to achieve ef‌fective partnerships.
It is widely acknowledged that policing on the waterfront is challenging and dif‌f‌icult,
and to have a maximum gain, resources from multiple agencies have to be harnessed.
Inter-agency collaboration is therefore pivotal in securing the waterfront from unlawful
activities perpetrated by criminally minded individuals. Brewer’s book is a comprehen-
sive text, which not only educates readers the crime issues facing port authorities but also
provides a comparative context for evaluating these issues. This book is useful to array
of individuals, including criminologists, police scholars, security analysts, and sociolo-
gists. Policing the Waterfront: Networks, Partnerships, and the Governance of Port
Security provides readers with an analytic glimpse of the reality of crime on the
waterfront.
Sharon Hayes, Sex, love and abuse: Discourses on domestic violence and sexual assault. Palgrave
Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2014; V + 154 pp. ISBN 9781137008800, £61.00 (hbk)
Reviewed by: Francis D Boateng, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA
Domestic violence remains a serious social problem in the 21st century, and often
triggers debates and controversies, on both the domestic and global stage. Today,
available statistics suggest that one in four women are abused by their partners, world-
wide: physically, emotionally, psychologically, and sexually (Etienne, Linda,...

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