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Scardaville, Melissa

WORK TITLE: Intimate Coercion
WORK NOTES: with Marti Loring
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CITY: Atlanta
STATE: GA
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-scardaville-a5093310/ * https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442254329/Intimate-Coercion-Recognition-and-Recovery

RESEARCHER NOTES:

PERSONAL

Female.

EDUCATION:

Holds a Ph.D.

ADDRESS

  • Home - Atlanta, GA.

CAREER

Writer and sociologist.

WRITINGS

  • (With Marti Loring) Intimate Coercion: Recognition and Recover, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 2015

SIDELIGHTS

Melissa Scardaville is a writer and sociologist based in Atlanta, GA. She holds a Ph.D.

Scardaville collaborated with fellow sociologist, Marti Loring, to write the 2015 book, Intimate Coercion: Recognition and Recovery. In this volume, the authors define intimate coercion and discuss the factors that can cause it to happen. They also comment on the various types of coercive relationships and include case studies that represent some of the topics in the book. Loring and Scardaville explain that victims of intimate coercion can heal through therapy.

K. Evans offered a favorable assessment of Intimate Coercion in Choice. Evans asserted: “This readable volume will be valuable to anyone seeking to understand domestic violence, mental health problems, or criminal justice.” Evans also categorized the volume as “recommended.”

BIOCRIT

PERIODICALS

  • Choice, April, 2016. K Evans, review of Intimate Coercion: Recognition and Recovery, p. 1201.*

  • Intimate Coercion: Recognition and Recover Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 2015
1. Intimate coercion : recognition and recovery LCCN 2015014100 Type of material Book Personal name Loring, Marti Tamm, author. Main title Intimate coercion : recognition and recovery / Marti Loring and Melissa Scardaville. Published/Produced Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015] Description xxi, 145 pages ; 24 cm ISBN 9781442254329 (cloth : alk. paper) Shelf Location FLM2016 110833 CALL NUMBER RC569.5.F3 L58 2015 OVERFLOWJ34 Request in Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms (FLM2)
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    LC control no.: n 2015183387

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    Personal name heading:
    Scardaville, Melissa

    Found in: Intimate coercion, 2015: ECIP t.p. (Melissa Scardaville)

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  • From Publisher -

    Melissa Scardaville, PhD, is a sociologist.

Loring, Marti. Intimate coercion: recognition and recovery
K. Evans
53.8 (Apr. 2016): p1201.
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2016 American Library Association CHOICE
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Loring, Marti. Intimate coercion: recognition and recovery, by Marti Loring and Melissa Scardaville. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 145p bibl index afp ISBN 9781442254329 cloth, $60.00; ISBN 9781442254336 ebook, $59.99

53-3557

RC569

2015-14100 CIP

As the publishers website states, this volume "explores the foundation and causes of intimate coercion, focusing specifically on the identification of the issue and subsequent healing process." Sociologists Loring and Scardaville shine a light on intimate coercion and how devastating it can be for the victims and their families. In the book's 11 chapters, they provide information on what intimate coercion entails; how to evaluate subjects to determine if coercion is occurring; how coercion happens, and reasons why it continues, in a relationship; and what therapies work with coercion. The book details the types of abuse--physical, sexual, and emotional--common to coercive relationships. Case studies scattered throughout the book are invaluable in helping the reader understand the nature of intimate coercion--on the parts of the coerced and the coercer. A chapter on special populations highlights some of the distinct problems (deportation, making sexual orientation public, and so on) the groups might face. The chapter on the transformation of coerced subjects using therapy and transformative tools is particularly interesting. This readable volume will be valuable to anyone seeking to understand domestic violence, mental health problems, or criminal justice. Summing Up: ** Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.--K. Evans, Indiana State University

Evans, K.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Evans, K. "Loring, Marti. Intimate coercion: recognition and recovery." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Apr. 2016, p. 1201+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA449661688&it=r&asid=d5f4a69aef8f443214a66e0ea9a2604c. Accessed 3 Mar. 2017.

Gale Document Number: GALE|A449661688

Evans, K. "Loring, Marti. Intimate coercion: recognition and recovery." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Apr. 2016, p. 1201+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA449661688&asid=d5f4a69aef8f443214a66e0ea9a2604c. Accessed 3 Mar. 2017.