"Suitable for professionals, students, and lay readers alike, this book provides an immensely informative, profoundly moving, and remarkably comprehensive look at the range and nature of violence and abuse by and of humans today"-- Provided by publisher.

v. 1. Fundamentals, effects, and extremes -- v. 2. Setting, age, gender, and other key concepts -- v. 3. Psychological, ritual, sexual, and trafficking issues -- v. 4. Faces of intimate partner violence.