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Battered women, homicide convictions and sentencing
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- Jacobsen, Carol
- Mizga, Kammy
- D'Orio, Lynn
Battered women, homicide convictions and sentencing
The authors demonstrate that battered women who are forced to kill their attackers often face unfair convictions and sentences due to unequal treatment by the law and gendered modes of punishment. They argue that in different studies startling levels of discrimination in the courts against women who were victims of domestic violence were revealed.- Creator
- Jacobsen, Carol
- Mizga, Kammy
- D'Orio, Lynn
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Domestic violence and title III of the violence against women act of 1993
- Creator
- Busch, Birgit Schmith am
Domestic violence and title III of the violence against women act of 1993
Besproken wordt of 'Title III of the Violence Against Women Act' een effectief middel is in de bestrijding van geweld binnen relaties.- Creator
- Busch, Birgit Schmith am
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California healthcare workers and mandatory reporting of intimate violence
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- Mooney, Donna R.
- Rodriguez, Michael
California healthcare workers and mandatory reporting of intimate violence
This article is meant to add to the analysis of mandatory reporting laws by examining words directly from women who have had the experience of intimate violence.- Creator
- Mooney, Donna R.
- Rodriguez, Michael
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Contradictions, open secrets and feminist faith in enlightenment
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- Lauren Hughes, Heather
Contradictions, open secrets and feminist faith in enlightenment
Many feminists target ignorance of domestic violence as the main reason for judicial resistance to decisions that would punish abusers and redress battered women's harms. But feminist demands to educate courts - to create, for example, a reformed tort law system in which courts understand and take into account the complex situation of battered women litigants - seek an epistemological grounding from which to adjudicate the intractable contradictions in both legal discourse and cultural discourse about women. Domestic violence continues to co-exist with public condemnation of such violence by feminists and some lawmakers. Domestic violence is an open secret in our culture, fated to interface at common law with the open secret in American jurisprudence that the myth of an abstract rule of law is at the same time readily deconstructed, yet crucial and indispensable. Ignorance is not a cognitive darkness from which people emerge into the light of understanding. Rather, ignorance is pluralized and specified to correspond to various regimes of knowledge. For battered women, these regimes of knowledge include cultural mandates that women be intelligible in terms of pre-determined gender roles and sexual identities. For adjudicators, these regimes of knowledge include professional mandates to sustain the authority of precedent through appeals to a rule of law. The combination of (i) the utility to courts of an abstract rule of law, and (ii) social prescriptions for the intelligibility of women, fosters a privileged ignorance of violence against women that will not be erased through enlightenment.- Creator
- Lauren Hughes, Heather
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The deterrent effect of arrest in domestic violence
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- Niemi-Kiesiläinen, J.
The deterrent effect of arrest in domestic violence
The effects of arrest in domestic violence have been debated since Professor Lawrence Sherman et al. published their widely cited empirical studies in the 1980s and early 1990s. These studies, however, focused on the perpetrator and did not consider the effects of arrest on the victim's willingness to report repeat violence to the police. In this article, the author argues that the effect of arresting the perpetrator on the behavior of the victim is a crucial factor in determining the overall effectiveness of arrest. It is likely that the arrest of the perpetrator deters violence, but it is equally possible that it encourages the victim to call the police in repeat incidents of violence. This article presents a rereading of the empirical studies. It argues that the effect of arrest on the victim should have been taken more seriously in the research design. It also suggests that a more convincing interpretation of the results is achieved when the victim is taken into account.- Creator
- Niemi-Kiesiläinen, J.
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Together
- Creator
- Harris, Zelda B.
- [et al.]
Together
This symposium issue attemps to shed light on the remaining barriers to combating domestic violence. The articles featured in this issue highlight that many women have been left behind by reform efforts, particularly low-income women and women who face immigration challenges.- Creator
- Harris, Zelda B.
- [et al.]
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