What Is to Be Done About Violence Against Women?

This book maps the problems and possibilities of the policies and practices designed to tackle violence against women in the domestic sphere over the last 40 years.

Autorentext

Kate Fitz-Gibbon is Professor of Social Sciences at Monash University, Australia.

Sandra Walklate is Professor and Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Inhalt

1 Then and now: Historical reflections on violence(s) against women 2 From wife battering to coercive control 3 From invisible children to victim-survivors in their own right 4 From homicide to femicide 5 What is in a name? Charting the changing presence of victim-survivor voices in criminal justice policy 6 Criminalisation and its consequences 7 `Thinking otherwise : An experiment in progressing a whole of system reform agenda 8 Concluding thoughts: Invading the boy s club