Research handbook on domestic violence and abuse / Mandy Burton [and three others], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burton, Mandy, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Research handbooks in family law.

Research Handbooks in Family Law Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family violence--Law and legislation.

Family violence.

Intimate partner violence.

Victims of family violence--Psychology.

Victims of family violence.

Victims of family violence--Social conditions.

Women--Violence against.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2024]

Summary:

"This Research Handbook examines the evolution of understandings and legal definitions of domestic abuse, illustrating the importance of expanding these beyond physical violence to encompass coercive control. Drawing on academic literature, legal doctrine and the lived experiences of victims and survivors, it highlights how responses to domestic abuse can be improved in civil, family and criminal justice systems. Through an analysis of global legal developments, contributing authors identify failures in the handling of domestic abuse and provide expert insight into how to address these. They focus in particular on the law and processes for obtaining protection orders across jurisdictions, and the handling of domestic abuse in financial and child arrangement proceedings following the breakdown of a relationship. Chapters also cover key issues such as LGBTQ+ intimate partner violence, the prosecution and sentencing of domestic abuse and defences for victims/survivors. The Research Handbook emphasises the importance of effective legal responses to domestic abuse in fulfilling human rights treaty obligations. The Research Handbook on Domestic Violence and Abuse is an essential resource for scholars and students of family law, criminal law, criminal justice and social policy. It is also an important guide for legal professionals seeking to sensitively handle cases involving domestic abuse"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

1. Introduction to the Research Handbook on Domestic Violence and Abuse

PART I DEFINING DOMESTIC ABUSE AND CONTEXTS

2. Defining coercive control: Problems and possibilities

3. Sharing and/or threatening to share private, sexual images without consent as an emerging strategy of coercive control

4. Chronic sexual violation

5. Silent suffering: LGBTQ+ intimate partner violence unveiled

6. The intersection of domestic violence, culture, social marginalisation and entrapment for Indigenous Women

7. Christianity and domestic abuse

8. Conceptualising domestic abuse in human rights law

PART II PROTECTION ORDERS

9. Will domestic abuse protection notices and orders improve victim protection and assure the United Kingdom's compliance with the Istanbul Convention?

10. Civil protection orders when crossing jurisdictional lines: Gaps in the law and a call for reform to better protect victims of domestic abuse

11. 'We're not the polite police': LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence victim-survivors' experiences with legal actors when seeking help via the civil protection order system in Australia

12. Can law provide survivors with safety? Legal mobilization, legal consciousness, and protection order decision-making

13. The financial remedy application and beyond: To what extent is the victim-survivor protected from further abuse?

PART III FAMILY COURTS

14. Domestic abuse, parental alienation and Family Court proceedings

15. Innovative approaches to addressing domestic abuse in family courts

16. Coercive control and the family courts: Comparative perspectives from Australia and England/Wales

17. Self-represented litigants and family violence: A comparison between England and Wales and Australia

PART IV CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

18. Court proceedings in which victims of domestic abuse are accused of offending

19. Inaccessible to women - the general defences of duress and self defence

20. Preparing a public perceptions study on the use of violent resistance as self-defence in domestic abuse cases

21. Grooming, 'rough sex' and coercive control in the criminal law: 'Culturally mandated' sex and violence against women

22. Re-framing prosecutorial perceptions of 'justice': Towards the goal of 'thrivership'

23. Prosecuting and sentencing domestic abuse in Scotland

24. The law of evidence and the victim of domestic abuse

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-03-530064-8