Critical Issues on Violence Against Women

International Perspectives and Promising Strategies

Holly Johnson, Bonnie Fisher, Veronique Jaquier, Holly Johnson, Bonnie S. Fisher, Veronique Jaquier, Bonnie Fisher, Holly Johnson, Bonnie S. Fisher, Veronique Jaquier

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135006020
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

Violence against women is a global problem and despite a wealth of knowledge and inspiring action around the globe, it continues unabated. Bringing together the very best in international scholarship with a rich variety of pedagogical features, this innovative new textbook on violence against women is specifically designed to provoke debate, interrogate assumptions and encourage critical thinking about this global issue.

This book presents a range of critical reflections on the strengths and limitations of responses to violent crimes against women and how they have evolved to date. Each section is introduced with an overview of a particular topic by an expert in the field, followed by thoughtful reflections by researchers, practitioners, or advocates that incorporate new research findings, a new initiative, or innovative ideas for reform. Themes covered include:

• advances in measurement of violence against women,
• justice system responses to intimate partner violence and sexual assault,
• victim crisis and advocacy,
• behaviour change programs for abusers, and
• prevention of violence against women.

Each section is supplemented with learning objectives, critical thinking questions and lists of further reading and resources to encourage discussion and to help students to appreciate the contested nature of policy. The innovative structure will bring debate alive in the classroom or seminar and makes the book perfect reading for courses on violence against women, gender and crime, victimology, and crime prevention.

Index

Entries in bold denote tables and boxes; entries in italics denote figures.

• ablism 150
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders: men 238–9
  • women 53, 56, 78–82, 238
• abortion, forced 32
• abuse, overlap between forms of 131
• adolescents 173, 211–13
• adversarial legal systems 4, 49, 51, 68–9, 96
• advocacy, in primary prevention 214–15
• AFL (Australian Football League) 216
• African-American community 237
• Alberta, TROs in 56–7
• alcohol: addressing use of 214
  • attempted intercourse by 24
  • rape facilitated by 12, 109
  • use by abusers 177, 179, 202
  • victim’s use of 97, 107, 111, 119
• allies, potential 221
• American Indians and Alaskan Natives (AIAN) 26–7
• Amnesty International 244–5
• androcentrism, in research methodologies 7, 10
• anger management programs 174, 190
• anti-social personality 201
• arrest: authorization for 50
  • in DV cases 48–9, 60–1
  • mandatory see mandatory arrest
  • police decision to make 94–5
  • policies promoting see pro-arrest policies
• athletes, at risk of perpetration 213, 224–5, 240
• attachment disorders 179
• Australia: breaches of DVOs in 81–2
  • family law in 80–1
  • indigenous communities in 238–9
  • legislation on DV/IPV in 82–3, 85
  • police and justice responses to DV in 52–5, 61
  • use of protection orders in 77 see also DVOs
• Australian and New South Wales Law Reform Commiss...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• SECTION I Measurement of violence against women
• SECTION II Justice system responses to intimate partner violence
• SECTION III Justice system responses to sexual violence
• SECTION IV Victim crisis and advocacy
• SECTION V Behavior change programs for abusers
• SECTION VI Preventing male violence against women
• Index