Unintended Consequences of Domestic Violence Law Gendered Aspirations and Racialised Realities /

• Main Author: Nancarrow, Heather (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology
• Subjects: Critical criminology.; Victimology.; Violence.; Crime.; Law and the social sciences.; Police.; Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime.; Violence and Crime.; Socio-legal Studies.; Policing.

This book addresses the intersection of two current major concerns in Australia: how law and justice responses to domestic violence - including harsher punitive measures - and the over-representation of Indigenous Australians in the criminal justice system, which are similar concerns in New Zealand,...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The Problem In Context
• 2. Conceptualising Intimate Partner Violence
• 3. Gendered Aspirations In Domestic Violence Law
• 4. Sex And Race Differences In Law's Application
• 5. Explanations Of Indigenous Violence And Recidivism
• 6. Reconceptualising Typologies Of Violence
• 7. Gendered And Racialised Power And The Law
• 8. Conclusions And Implications. .