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International Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence

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Overview

  • Examines the multifaceted nature of gender-based violence (GBV) and the many forms it takes
  • Explores GBV and its implications on human rights, law, and policy
  • Highlights the significance of international debates around preventing GBV

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Gender-Based Violence: Perspectives on Trafficking and Modern Slavery

  2. Gender-Based Violence: Perspectives on Media Discourses

  3. Gender-Based Violence: Perspectives on Rehabilitating and Reintegrating Perpetrators

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About this book

This book examines the multifaceted nature of gender-based violence (GBV) and the many forms it can take. It explores the area of GBV and its implications on human rights, law, and policy. The book highlights the significance of current international debates around preventing GBV and provides context for understanding GBV as a complex structural phenomenon deeply rooted in gender inequality. It addresses GBV as one of the most notable human rights violations within all societies and provides multiple global perspectives on GBV to address the common challenges and barriers to combating this issue.

Key areas of coverage include:
  • Sexual violence.
  • Domestic violence.
  • Intimate partner violence.
  • Media Misogyny.
  • Online trolling.
  • Discrimination.
  • Sex trafficking and modern slavery.
  • Preventative Measures and role of men.

International Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence is an essential resource for researchers, clinicians/therapists, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in developmental psychology, family policy, forensic psychology, human rights, public health, criminology/criminal justice, and clinical social work as well as all interrelated disciplines.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Law and Criminology, Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

    Madhumita Pandey

About the editor

Madhumita Pandey is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Internationalisation Lead in the Department of Law and Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She works in the area of sexual offending, sex offenders and violence against women, particularly focusing on rape, in the Global South. She utilizes a feminist framework to work with both victims and perpetrators of gender-based violence to not only highlight women’s vulnerability but also men’s responsibility. 

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