Decriminalizing Domestic Violence (eBook)

A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence

Leigh Goodmark (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
216 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96829-5 (ISBN)

Infos

DecriminalizingDomesticViolenceasks the crucial, yet often overlooked, question of why and how the criminal legal system became the primary response to intimate partnerviolencein the United States. It introduces readers, both new and well versed in the subject, to the ways in which the criminal legal system harms rather than helps those who are subjected to abuse andviolencein their homes and communities, and shares how it drives, rather than deters, intimate partnerviolence. The book examines how social, legal, and financial resources are diverted into a criminal legal apparatus that is often unable to deliver justice or safety to victims or to prevent intimate partnerviolencein the first place. Envisioned for both courses and research topics indomestic violence, familyviolence, gender and law, and sociology of law, the book challenges readers to understand intimate partnerviolencenot solely, or even primarily, as a criminal law concern but as an economic, public health, community, and human rights problem. It also argues that only by viewing intimate partnerviolencethrough these lenses can we develop a balanced policy agenda for addressing it. At a moment when we are examining our national addiction to punishment, Decriminalizing Domestic Violence offers a thoughtful, pragmatic roadmap to real reform.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Intimate Partner Violence Is...
1. A Criminal Justice Problem?
2. An Economic Problem
3. A Public Health Problem
4. A Community Problem
5. A Human Rights Problem
6. A Balanced Policy Approach

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and Justice
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and Justice
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Abuse • balanced policy agenda • broken system • Criminal Justice Reform • Criminal Law • criminal legal system • Domestic violence • Family violence • Financial Resources • Gender • Law • legal resources • moral responsibility • national addiction to punishment • Partner Violence • Research • social resources • Sociology of Law • Teaching • United States • Violence
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96829-8 / 0520968298
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96829-5 / 9780520968295