Where can I get more information?
All Rape Crisis Network Ireland Publications are available here
Irish Statistics
McGee, Hannah, Rebecca Garavan, Mairéad de Barra, Joanne Byrne, Ronán Conroy and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, The SAVI Report: Sexual Abuse and Violence in Ireland; a national study of Irish experiences, Beliefs and Attitudes Concerning Sexual Violence, Liffey Press in Association with Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, 2002
Watson, Dorothy and Sara Parsons, ‘Domestic Abuse of Women and Men in Ireland: report of the national study of domestic abuse’, National Crime Council & ESRI, 2005
Rape Crisis Network Ireland, ‘National Rape Crisis Statistics 2004: What survivors Told us…‘ published May 2005
Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, ‘National Help line and Counselling Services Statistics, 2003′ ‘National Help line and Counselling Services Statistics, 2003’
Women’s Aid Ireland, ‘Women’s Aid National Freephone Helpline Statistics, 2003‘, published October 2004
The CARI Foundation, ‘CARI Annual Report 2008-2009‘
Garda Siochana annual report 2003
For Courts Services publications please click here
Survivors
Hayden, Jackie, In Their Own Words: Coping with rape and sexual abuse, hot press books on behalf of Wexford Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Services, 2003
Child Sexual Abuse and Incest
Corcoran, Clodagh, Take Care: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse, Guernsey, 1987
Liddy, Rosemary & Walsh, Deirdre: Surviving Sexual Abuse, Attic, 1989
Bray, Madge, Poppies on the Rubbish Heap. Sexual Abuse: The child’s voice, Canongate, UK, 1991.
Spring, Jaqueline, Cry Hard and Swim: The Story of an Incest Survivor, Virago, 1987
Wood, Kieron, The Kilkenny Incest Case, Poolbeg, 1993
Miller, Alice, For Your Own Good: the roots of Violence in Child- rearing, Virago, 1987
Recovery Books for Survivors of Sexual Abuse/ Violence
Bass, Ellen & Davis, Laura, Beginning to Heal. A First Guide for Female Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Cedar, 1993
Bass, Ellen & Davis, Laura, The Courage to Heal, London, Vermillion, 1988
Davis, Laura, The Courage to Heal Workbook, Harper & Row, 1990
Reading for Partners of Survivors
Davis, Laura, Allies in Healing, Harper & Row, 1991
Rape
Boumil, Friedman & Taylor, Date Rape; The Secret Epidemic, Health Communications, Florida, 1992
Warshaw, Robin, I Never Called It Rape, Harper Perennial, 1994
Domestic Violence
Colgan, Carina, You have to Scream with your Mouth Shut: Violence in the Home, Marino Books, 1995
Male survivors
Lew, Mike, Victims No Longer, Mandarin Paperbacks
Ritual Abuse
Boyd, Andrew: Blasphemous Rumours – Is Satanic Ritual Abuse Fact or Fantasy? An Investigation. Fount, London, 1991
Oksana, Chrystine: Safe Passage to Healing. A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse. Harper Perennial, 1994
Female Abusers
Elliott, Michele (ed), Female Sexual Abuse of Children: The Ultimate Taboo, Longman, UK, 1993
Assertiveness
Anne Dickson, A Woman in Your Own Right, Quartet Books.
Women’s Sexuality
Anne Dickson, The Mirror Within: A new look at sexuality, Quartet Books.
Eating Disorders
Campion, Marie, Hope: Understanding Eating Disorders, O’Brien Press, Dublin, 1997
Women’s Health
Rahusen, Jill & Angela Phillips, Our Bodies, Ourselves, Penguin, London, 1989
Davis, Vanessa, Abortion & Afterwards,
Trauma
Herman, Judith, Trauma and Recovery, Harper Collins,1992