battered women's experience of the justice system in New Zealand
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
- Magazine Year
- 1995
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Busch, Ruth
- Creator
- Robertson, Neville
- Creator
- Lapsley, Hilary
- Thesaurus
- huiselijk geweld, slachtoffers, politie, strafrecht, Nieuw-Zeeland
- Description
- This paper focuses on the gap which the author's discovered between women's realities of the violence that they face from their abusers and the minimisation, trivialisation, and victim blaming that they so often encounter when they seek protection from the family court and the criminal justice system. 'The gap' is analysed from the perspective of women victims and used to evaluate the law as wel as the policies and procedures which have been adopted by police, judges, and family court counsellors for dealing with spousal violence cases. ( Kinderrechter )