Intimate Partner Violence, Risk and Security - Securing Women's Lives in a Global World (Paperback)

This edited collection addresses intimate partner violence, risk and security as global issues. Although intimate partner violence, risk and security are intimately connected they are rarely considered in tandem in the context of global security. Yet, intimate partner violence causes widespread physical, sexual and/or psychological harm. It is the most common type of violence against women internationally and is estimated to affect 30 per cent of women worldwide. Intimate partner violence has received significant attention in recent years, animating political debate, policy and law reform as well as scholarly attention. In bringing together a range of international experts, this edited collection challenges status quo understandings of risk and questions how we can reposition the risk of IPV, and particularly the risk of IPH, as a critical site of global and national security. It brings together contributions from a range of disciplines and international jurisdictions, including from Australia and New Zealand, United Kingdom, Europe, United States, North America, Brazil and South Africa. The contributions here urge us to think about perpetrators in more nuanced and sophisticated ways with chapters pointing to the structural and social factors that facilitate and sustain violence against women and IPV. Contributors point out that states not only exacerbate the structural conditions producing the risks of violence, but directly coerce and control women as both citizens and non-citizens. States too should be understood as collaborators and facilitators of intimate partner violence. Effective action against intimate partner violence requires sustained responses at the global, state and local levels to end gender inequality. Critical to this end are environmental issues, poverty and the divisions, often along 'race' and ethnic lines, underpinning other dimensions of social and economic inequality.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice
Release date:	February 2021
First published:	2018
Editors:	Kate Fitz-Gibbon • Sandra Walklate • Jude McCulloch • JaneMaree Maher
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-48343-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > Domestic violence
LSN:	0-367-48343-2
Barcode:	9780367483432

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