Description: Decriminalizing Domestic Violence Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence Author(s): Leigh Goodmark Format: Hardback Publisher: University of California Press, United States Imprint: University of California Press ISBN-13: 9780520295568, 978-0520295568 Synopsis Decriminalizing Domestic Violence asks the crucial, yet often overlooked, question of why and how the criminal legal system became the primary response to intimate partner violence in the United States. It introduces readers, both new and well versed in the subject, to the ways in which the criminal legal system harms rather than helps those who are subjected to abuse and violence in their homes and communities, and shares how it drives, rather than deters, intimate partner violence. The book examines how social, legal, and financial resources are diverted into a criminal legal apparatus that is often unable to deliver justice or safety to victims or to prevent intimate partner violence in the first place. Envisioned for both courses and research topics in domestic violence, family violence, gender and law, and sociology of law, the book challenges readers to understand intimate partner violence not solely, or even primarily, as a criminal law concern but as an economic, public health, community, and human rights problem. It also argues that only by viewing intimate partner violence through these lenses can we develop a balanced policy agenda for addressing it. At a moment when we are examining our national addiction to punishment, Decriminalizing Domestic Violence offers a thoughtful, pragmatic roadmap to real reform.
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Book Title: Decriminalizing Domestic Violence
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: a Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Law, Zoology, Criminology
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 454 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Leigh Goodmark
Subject Area: Sexual Abuse
Series: Gender and Justice
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
