Domestic violence /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008. |
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| Description: | xxx, 534 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Family, law & society |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7639825 |
Table of Contents:
- Series preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Definition
- Definitional issues in violence against women
- Surveillance and research from a violence research perspective
- Women's violence to men in intimate relations
- Working on a puzzle
- Part II. Research and Violence Against Women
- New survey methodologies in researching violence against women
- Violence against women research post VAWA: where have we been, where are we going?
- Theorizing about violence: observations from the economic and social research council's violence research program
- Part III. The Justice Response
- Intimate partner violence and the justice system
- Law as a Trojan horse: unintended consequences of rights-based interventions to support battered women
- Protection, prevention, rehabilitation or justice?
- Women's use of the law to challenge domestic violence
- Justice from the victim's perspective
- Part IV. The Criminal Law
- Magistrates' attitudes to domestic violence and sentencing options
- Evaluating criminal justice interventions for domestic violence
- Police response to domestic violence: from victim choice to victim empowerment?
- Part V. A Human Rights Question
- Domestic violence as a human rights issue
- Righting domestic violence
- Part VI. Coping, Staying, Leaving
- Violence against women: conditions, consequences and coping
- When ending the relationship doesn't end the violence: women's experiences of violence by former partners
- Part VII. Mediation and Other Forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Domestic violence and mediation: responding to the challenges of crafting effective screens
- Violence and family mediation: policy
- Re-visioning men's violence against female partners
- Part VIII. And Children
- The unmet needs of domestic violence victims and their children in Hague Child Abduction Convention cases
- Children who witness domestic violence - implications for child protection
- Part IX. Ethnic Minority Victims
- Domestic violence and minoritisation: legal and policy barriers facing minoritized women leaving violent relationships
- Index
