Tackling Domestic Violence Theories, Policies and Practice

by Harne, Lynne; Radford, Jill

Edition: 1st

ISBN13: 9780335212484

ISBN10: 0335212484

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2008-07-01

Publisher(s): Open University Press

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Summary

This accessible text takes a multi-disciplinary approach to exploring issues surrounding domestic violence. It draws on contemporary research findings, policy developments, innovative practice and case studies to explore new directions in professional and voluntary sector responses to domestic violence. Centred on the United Kingdom, but located in a context of global change, the book discusses and critically evaluates new criminal justice and multi-agency initiatives such as domestic violence courts and risk assessment conferences, as well as assessing how far these initiatives improve the safety of women and children.Harne and Radford aim to disseminate ideas about best practice in relation to dealing with this sensitive and still controversial issue. They use real-life case studies from professionals, including the police, health services and Women's Aid, and are inclusive of the experiences of a wide range of survivors, in order to enable an understanding of the need for appropriate responses, depending on different survivor needs. Tackling Domestic Violence provides an informed background for professionals in the police, probation, health and social care services, the legal system and voluntary sector with a remit to respond to domestic violence. It is also highly relevant to those undertaking courses on domestic violence at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Author Biography

Lynne Harne is currently associated with the Violence against Women Research Group, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK. She has been teaching and researching issues of violence against women and children since the early l990n++s and has worked for the womenn++s legal organisation Rights of Women and the Rape Crisis Federation.

..Jill Radford is Professor of Criminology and Womenn++s Studies at the University of Teesside, UK. She has been working around the issues of sexual and domestic violence for 30 years and is a founding member and Chair of the Tees Valley Sexual Violence Forum and a member of the Middlesbrough Domestic Violence Forum..

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Introduction	p. ix
The nature and extent of domestic violence	p. 1
The nature of domestic violence	p. 1
The power and control wheel	p. 7
Diversity in women's experiences of domestic violence	p. 9
Domestic violence as gender violence	p. 17
Domestic violence as crime	p. 20
Prevalence of domestic violence	p. 23
Conclusion	p. 31
Impacts, coping and surviving domestic violence	p. 37
The impacts on women	p. 37
Injuries and ill-health	p. 38
Recovering from the health impacts of domestic violence	p. 44
Why don't women just leave?	p. 46
Implications for practice	p. 54
The impacts on children	p. 56
Children living with domestic violence	p. 64
Post-separation violence	p. 66
The direct abuse of children during contact visits	p. 69
Understanding children's perspectives-implications for practice	p. 73
Legal responses to domestic violence	p. 85
The nature of law in liberal democratic theory	p. 85
Feminist perspectives	p. 87
Legal change in the 20th Century	p. 92
Feminist jurisprudence	p. 93
The advantages and disadvantages of civil legislation	p. 98
The criminal law	p. 99
Domestic homicide	p. 101
Family law	p. 104
The Children Act (1989)	p. 105
The law & child contact in cases of domestic violence	p. 107
Child protection (Public law)	p. 110
Conclusions	p. 111
Policing, prosecution and the courts	p. 117
Policing domestic violence	p. 117
Innovate policing practice	p. 122
Policing and attrition	p. 130
Further policing initiatives	p. 133
Prosecution and the courts	p. 135
Specialist domestic violence courts	p. 137
New sentencing guidence	p. 140
Conclusions	p. 141
Preventing domestic violence	p. 147
The need for primary prevention	p. 147
Perpetrator programmes - tertiary prevention	p. 152
Do perpetrator programmes work?	p. 159
Perpetrator programmes, violent fathers and children's safety	p. 162
Conclusions	p. 164
Community responses to domestic violence	p. 169
Customary community responses	p. 169
Women's Aid	p. 170
Multi-agency responses	p. 177
Multi-agency practices today	p. 182
Multi-agency risk assessment conferences	p. 183
Conclusion	p. 187
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