The effect of victim-offender relationship on reporting crimes of violence against women
Creator
Gartner, Rosemary
MacMillan, Ross
The effect of victim-offender relationship on reporting crimes of violence against women
Uit de resultaten van dit onderzoek blijkt dat van alle soorten van geweld tegen vrouwen slechts een klein deel gemeld wordt bij de politie. Geweld binnen een intieme relatie wordt het minst gemeld.
Creator
Gartner, Rosemary
MacMillan, Ross
Refugee law and state accountability for violence against women
Creator
Randall, Melanie
Refugee law and state accountability for violence against women
The author adresses two central themes in the determination of claims for asylum made by women fleeing gender persecution. The first of these is the set of definitional hurdles women face in framing claims that are based on gender persecution, most often revolving around the 'most elastic and nebulous' category - 'membership in a particular social group.' The second is the state's relationship to the persecution being claimed and, most critically, its ability to protect the claimant, a particularly fraught dilemma in cases of violence perpetrated in intimate relationships and in the context of the so-called 'private' sphere.