International Responses to Gendered-Based Domestic Violence

Gender-Specific and Socio-Cultural Approaches

• Author(s): Dongling Zhang, Diana Scharff Peterson,
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Pages: 316
• ISBN_10: 1000847667
  ISBN_13: 9781000847666
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Criminology , Social Science / Regional Studies , Psychology / Psychotherapy / General , Social Science / Social Work , History / General , Law / Gender & the Law , Law / Criminal Law / General , Law / Criminal Law / Sentencing , Law / General , Law / International , Political Science / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory , Social Science / Men's Studies , Social Science / Violence in Society ,

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This edited volume represents a joint effort by international experts to analyze the prevalence and nature of gender-based domestic violence across the globe and how it is dealt with at both national and international levels. With studies being conducted in 20 different countries and 4 distinct regions, the contributors to this volume shed light on the ways in which contextual particularities shape the practices and strategies of addressing the socio-cultural and legal problem of gender-based domestic violence in the countries or regions where they do research. Special attention is devoted to developing countries where there is a lack of a consistent legal definition of gender-based domestic violence and where violence against women is widely considered a private matter. The authors of the chapters share a common goal of raising public awareness of the significance in nuanced local experiences of women and other individuals from gender and sexual minority groups facing gender-based violence.

Furthermore, the authors attend, analytically, to the newly emerging, overlapping influences of COVID-19 and global warming. Their research findings acknowledge and provide a detailed account of how the two ecological and socio-economic crises can combine to produce economic devastation, disconnect victims from necessary social services and assistance, and create a large degree of panic and uncertainty. In addition, they intend to offer insights into next steps to not only adjust existing public policies, legislation, and social services to the ever-changing national and global contexts, but also to make new ones.

The book is intended for a wide range of scholars (both professors and students) and practitioners in a large number of areas, including but not limited to criminal justice, criminology, law, human rights, social justice, social work, nursing, sociology, and political or public affairs.