International Responses to Gendered-Based Domestic Violence

Gender-Specific and Socio-Cultural Approaches

Dongling Zhang, Diana Scharff Peterson, Dongling Zhang, Diana Scharff Peterson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032205298
• eBook ISBN: 9781000847666
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Criminologia

This edited volume represents a joint effort by international experts to analyze the prevalence and nature of gender-based domestic violence across the globe and how it is dealt with at both national and international levels. With studies being conducted in 20 different countries and 4 distinct regions, the contributors to this volume shed light on the ways in which contextual particularities shape the practices and strategies of addressing the socio-cultural and legal problem of gender-based domestic violence in the countries or regions where they do research. Special attention is devoted to developing countries where there is a lack of a consistent legal definition of gender-based domestic violence and where violence against women is widely considered a private matter. The authors of the chapters share a common goal of raising public awareness of the significance in nuanced local experiences of women and other individuals from gender and sexual minority groups facing gender-based violence.

Furthermore, the authors attend, analytically, to the newly emerging, overlapping influences of COVID-19 and global warming. Their research findings acknowledge and provide a detailed account of how the two ecological and socio-economic crises can combine to produce economic devastation, disconnect victims from necessary social services and assistance, and create a large degree of panic and uncertainty. In addition, they intend to offer insights into next steps to not only adjust existing public policies, legislation, and social services to the ever-changing national and global contexts, but also to make new ones.

The book is intended for a wide range of scholars (both professors and students) and practitioners in a large number of areas, including but not limited to criminal justice, criminology, law, human rights, social justice, social work, nursing, sociology, and political or public affairs.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Images
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Series Editor’s Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: An Interfaces Approach to the Global Problems of Gender-Based Domestic Violence
• Section One North and South America
• Section Two Asia and Oceania
• Section Three Africa
• Section Four Perpetrators and Victims (Intersectionality: Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Migrant, and Refugee Populations)
• Appendix I: IPES Global Meetings
• Appendix II: IPES Publications
• Index