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Policing 'Domestic' Violence: Women, the Law and the State: Routledge Revivals

Autor Susan S. M. Edwards
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 ian 2025
Violence in the home, particularly assault by a man on his wife or girlfriend, is an everyday phenomenon. What should the police and law courts do about it? In Policing ‘Domestic’ Violence, first published in 1989, reissued here with a new preface, Susan Edwards draws upon her extensive research into their actual responses, both before and after recent initiatives towards reform at the time, to address the practical and theoretical issues for criminology and feminism.
Examining police and court practice, the author exposes the ways in which the patriarchal ideology enshrined in the law, and the masculine ethos of the police and legal profession, ensure that women receive less justice and less protection. She documents in detail the processes by which crimes against women are trivialized.
The book combines a review of international research with the author’s own five-year exploration of policing in the UK through interviews with officers, observation and a review of record-keeping practice. It covers the introduction of new policing policies and offers a preliminary assessment of their success together with practical proposals for the future.
At a theoretical level, this title addresses the key problems of criminality and punishment. Is it possible to reconcile the feminist critique of the marginalization of so-called domestic violence with the radical critique of the punitive system as oppressive and counterproductive? Does the protection of women justify infringement of family privacy?
The book should be read in its historical context by students of criminology, law, women’s studies and sociology, as well as those concerned with policies and practical measures for dealing with violence in the home.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032955483
ISBN-10: 1032955481
Pagini: 274
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Revivals

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Adult education, General, and Postgraduate

Cuprins

New Preface.  Acknowledgements.  Abbreviations.  Introduction: Domestic Violence and the Law and Order Debate  1. The State and Policing: The Under-representation of Women’s Interests  2. The Law and its Operation  3. The Police Role: Using Discretion?  4. The Extent of the Problem: How Widespread is Domestic Violence?  5. Women’s Experience of Violence and Protection  6. Current Developments in the Policing and Prosecution of Violence against Women.  References.  Index.

Notă biografică

Susan S. M. Edwards is Professor of Law at the University of Northumbria. Associate tenant Red Lion Chambers London. She is Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Buckingham where she served as Dean of Law for many years. She is a Barrister and expert witness and has written in the area of gender for over 45 years. She is the author of several books and over 150 peer reviewed articles, including Opinion pieces for The GuardianThe Times and The Age (Australia).

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Violence in the home, particularly assault by a man on his wife or girlfriend, is an everyday phenomenon. What should the police and law courts do about it? In this book first published in 1989 the author draws upon her research into their actual responses to address the practical and theoretical issues for criminology and feminism.