experiences of immigrant women with the neo-criminalization of wife abuse
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
- Magazine Year
- 1995
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Martin, Dianne L.
- Creator
- Mosher, Janet E.
- Thesaurus
- strafrecht, huiselijk geweld, allochtonen, Canada
- Description
- Aggressive criminal justice intervention in cases of wife abuse, characterized in particular by mandatory charging and no-drop prosecutorial policies, is frequently held out as offering two broad promises to women: protection for individual women experiencing wife abuse: and the transformation of the norms which currently sustain men's violence against women. The authors argue that not only has aggressive criminal justice intervention failed thus far to deliver on these promises but that it is, by its very nature, incapable of doing so. While its inability to do so is related to many factors which are discussed in the paper, perhapes the most significant is the multitude of harms that aggressive criminal justice intervention brings in tow for women, particularly those who are socially and economically marginalized.