Refine your search
Categories
Language
Magazine Title
Refine your search
- Results per page : 10
Guatemala's failure to protect women and Rodi Alvarado's quest for safety
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Hastings Women's Law Journal
- Magazine Year
- 2006
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Cházaro, Angélica
- Creator
- Casey, Jennifer
- Thesaurus
- geweld, slachtoffers, rechtspraak, strafrecht, mensenrechten, veiligheid, ontwikkelingsbeleid, Amerikaans, Guatemala, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- The authors describe the violence against women in Guatemala, specifically focusing on the number of murders, the victims, the context in which they occur, the theories behind the murders, and the specific circumstances that led victim Rodi to leave Guatemala and seek asylum in the U.S. They examine aspects of the Guatemalan legal and judicial systems, the ineffective response from police, prosecutors and the judiciary, that results in widespread impunity for perpetrators. They describe Guatemala's international obligations to protect women and the current U.S. programs offering economic assistance to strenghten the Guatemalan criminal justice system.
civil rights for trafficked persons in the United States
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Hastings Women's Law Journal
- Magazine Year
- 2005
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Kim, Kathleen
- Creator
- Hreshchyshyn, Kusia
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenhandel, slachtoffers, wetgeving, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- This article addresses a 2003 addition to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act allowing for a private right of action for persons trafficked to the United States. The authors discuss civil litigation as a strategy for trafficked persons to obtain a remedy that specifically addresses the injury that they sustained: enslavement. The discussion situates this remedy within the broader purposes of anti-trafficking legislation.
the case for clemency
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Hastings Women's Law Journal
- Magazine Year
- 2007
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Jacobsen, Carol
- Creator
- Mizga, Kammy
- Creator
- D'Orio, Lynn
- Thesaurus
- moorden, daders, slachtoffers, huiselijk geweld, rechtspraak, strafrecht, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- 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.
differentiating between victim and perpetrator response
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Hastings Women's Law Journal
- Magazine Year
- 2001
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Niemi-Kiesiläinen, J.
- Thesaurus
- huiselijk geweld, slachtoffers
- Description
- 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.
locking up female runaways and other status offenders
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Hastings Women's Law Journal
- Magazine Year
- 2004
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Humphrey, Alecia
- Thesaurus
- thuislozen, criminaliteit, meisjes, slachtoffers, geweld, strafrecht, hulpverlening, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Humphrey explores the evolution of the status offense and its negative impact on the general population of youthful offenders, particularly girls, and the link between running away and the experience of physical and sexual abuse. She argues that although abuse histories are the norm among delinquent girls the role of these histories is downplayed as a key to addressing delinquency issues. It is only when these are taken into account that girls's status offenses and delinquency issues can be addressed. She suggests alternatives to status offense arrest and detention.
Showing 1-5 of 5 records.