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Decriminalizing Domestic Violence - A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,934
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Decriminalizing Domestic Violence - A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence (Hardcover): Leigh Goodmark

Decriminalizing Domestic Violence - A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence (Hardcover)

Leigh Goodmark

Series: Gender and Justice, 7

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Decriminalizing Domestic Violence asks the crucial, yet often overlooked, question of why and how the criminal legal system became the primary response to intimate partner violence in 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 and violence in their homes and communities, and shares how it drives, rather than deters, intimate partner violence. 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 partner violence in the first place. Envisioned for both courses and research topics in domestic violence, family violence, gender and law, and sociology of law, the book challenges readers to understand intimate partner violence not 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 partner violence through 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.

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Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Gender and Justice, 7
Release date: October 2018
First published: 2018
Authors: Leigh Goodmark
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-29556-8
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General
Books > Law > English law > Private, property, family > Gender law
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Private, property, family law > Family law
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > Domestic violence
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LSN: 0-520-29556-0
Barcode: 9780520295568

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