Criminalization of Violence Against Women : Comparative Perspectives

Douglas, Heather (EDT); Fitz-gibbon, Kate (EDT); Goodmark, Leigh (EDT); Walklate, Sandra (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0197651844 / ISBN 13: 9780197651841

Published by Oxford University Press, 2023

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Synopsis:

Historically states have failed to seriously confront violence against women. In response, in many countries women's rights movements have called on the government to prioritize state intervention in cases involving violence between intimate partners, sexual harassment, rape, and sexual assault by both strangers and intimate partners. Those interventions have taken various forms, including the passage of substantive civil and criminal laws governing intimate partner violence, rape and sexual assault, and sexual harassment; the development of civil orders of protection; and the introduction of procedures in the criminal legal system to ensure the effective intervention of police and prosecutors. Indeed, many countries have relied upon intervention by the criminal legal system to meet their requirements under international human rights standards that obligate states to prevent, protect from, prosecute, punish, and provide redress for violence. Although states have taken divergent approaches to the passage and implementation of criminal laws and procedures to address violence against women, two things are clear: criminalization is a primary strategy relied upon by most nations, and yet criminalization is not having the desired impact.

This collection explores the extent to which nations have adopted criminal legal reforms to address violence against women, the consequences associated with the implementation of those laws and policies, and who bears those consequences most heavily. The chapters examine the need for both more and less criminalization, ask whether we should think differently about criminalization, and explore the tensions that emerge when criminal law, civil law and social policy speak or fail to speak to each other. Drawing on criminalization approaches and recent debates from across the globe, this collection provides a comparative approach to assess the scope, impact of, and alternatives to criminalization in the response to violence against women.

About the Author: Heather Douglas is Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Kate Fitz-Gibbon is Professor of Social Sciences and Director, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Australia

Leigh Goodmark is the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law and director of the Gender, Prison, and Trauma Clinic at the Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Maryland, United States

Sandra Walklate is the Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool, England

Bibliographic Details

Title: Criminalization of Violence Against Women : ...
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New