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- Includes interviews with police prosecutors and domestic violence support workers
- Offers an intersectional gender/race analysis by comparing Indigenous and non-Indigenous men’s and women’s experiences and contexts of domestic violence, and the application of domestic violence law to these cases
- Appeals to those in the fields of law and justice policy and practice
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology (PSVV)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book addresses the intersection of two current major concerns in Australia: law and justice responses to domestic violence - including harsher punitive measures - and the over-representation of Indigenous Australians in the criminal justice system, which are similar concerns in New Zealand, Canada and the US. Nancarrow re-conceptualises typologies of violence and provides a means of understanding and explaining female use of violence without undermining the hard-won gains of the women’s movement. It does, however, argue for a paradigm shift, which has implications for every aspect of the system we have built to stop men’s violence against women (law, police policy and practice, counselling and advocacy for victims, and interventions for those who perpetrate violence). The book is based on quantitative and qualitative research and explores the nature of Indigenous intimate partner violence and the types of violence that domestic violence law sought to address.
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Authors and Affiliations
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ANROWS , Sydney, Australia
Heather Nancarrow
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Unintended Consequences of Domestic Violence Law
Book Subtitle: Gendered Aspirations and Racialised Realities
Authors: Heather Nancarrow
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27500-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27499-3Published: 18 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27502-0Published: 18 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27500-6Published: 07 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2947-9355
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9363
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 245
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Victimology, Violence and Crime, Socio-legal Studies, Policing