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Research handbook on domestic violence and abuse / edited by Mandy Burton (Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, Leicester Law School, University of Leicester), Vanessa Bettinson (Professor of Law), Kayliegh Richardson (Associate Professor) and Ana Speed (Assistant Professor and Solicitor, Northumbria Law School, University of Northumbria, UK).
Burton, Mandy editor.; Bettinson, Vanessa editor.; Richardson, Kayliegh, editor.; Speed, Ana, editor.; Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
2024
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Research handbook on domestic violence and abuse / edited by Mandy Burton (Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, Leicester Law School, University of Leicester), Vanessa Bettinson (Professor of Law), Kayliegh Richardson (Associate Professor) and Ana Speed (Assistant Professor and Solicitor, Northumbria Law School, University of Northumbria, UK).
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Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
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"This Research Handbook examines the evolution of understandings and legal definitions of domestic abuse, illustrating the importance of expanding these beyond physical violence to encompass coercive control. Drawing on academic literature, legal doctrine and the lived experiences of victims and survivors, it highlights how responses to domestic abuse can be improved in civil, family and criminal justice systems. Through an analysis of global legal developments, contributing authors identify failures in the handling of domestic abuse and provide expert insight into how to address these. They focus in particular on the law and processes for obtaining protection orders across jurisdictions, and the handling of domestic abuse in financial and child arrangement proceedings following the breakdown of a relationship. Chapters also cover key issues such as LGBTQ+ intimate partner violence, the prosecution and sentencing of domestic abuse and defences for victims/survivors. The Research Handbook emphasises the importance of effective legal responses to domestic abuse in fulfilling human rights treaty obligations. The Research Handbook on Domestic Violence and Abuse is an essential resource for scholars and students of family law, criminal law, criminal justice and social policy. It is also an important guide for legal professionals seeking to sensitively handle cases involving domestic abuse"-- Provided by publisher.
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Contents: 1. Introduction to the research handbook on domestic violence and abuse / Mandy Burton, Vanessa Bettinson, Kayliegh Richardson and Ana Speed
Part I. Defining domestic abuse and contexts
2. Defining coercive control: Problems and possibilities / Cassandra Wiener
3. Sharing and/or threatening to share private, sexual images without consent as an emerging strategy of coercive control / Charlotte Bishop
4. Chronic sexual violation: Sameness and difference - the challenge of recognising violation in relationships / Tanya Palmer
5. Silent suffering: LGBTQ+ intimate partner violence unveiled / Esra Ummak
6. The intersection of domestic violence, culture, social marginalisation and entrapment for indigenous women / Denise Wilson
7. Christianity and domestic abuse / Rebecca Barnes and Kristin Aune
8. Conceptualising domestic abuse in human rights law / Ronagh McQuigg
Part II. Protection orders
9. Will domestic abuse protection notices and orders improve victim protection and assure the United Kingdom's compliance with the istanbul convention? / Claire Bessant
10. Civil protection orders when crossing jurisdictional lines: Gaps in the law and a call for reform to better protect victims of domestic abuse / Ana Speed and Lauren Clayton-Helm
11. 'We're not the polite police': LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence victim-survivors' experiences with legal actors when seeking help via the civil protection order system in australia / Ellen Reeves
12. Can law provide survivors with safety? Legal mobilization, legal consciousness, and protection order decision-making / Kathryn J. Spearman, Alesha Durfee, Jill Theresa Messing and Meredith E. Bagwell-Gray
13. The financial remedy application and beyond: To what extent is the victim-survivor protected from further abuse? / Kayliegh Richardson and Amanda Newby
Part III. Family courts
14. Domestic abuse, parental alienation and family court proceedings / Adrienne Barnett
15. Innovative approaches to addressing domestic abuse in family courts / Rosemary Hunter
16. Coercive control and the family courts: Comparative perspectives from australia and England/wales / Anna Carline, Patricia Easteal and Lisa Young
17. Self-represented litigants and family violence: A comparison between England and Wales and australia / Jess Mant
Part IV. Criminal law and criminal justice
18. Court proceedings in which victims of domestic abuse are accused of offending / Katy Swaine Williams
19. Inaccessible to women - the general defences of duress and self defence / Susan Edwards
20. Preparing a public perceptions study on the use of violent resistance as self-defence in domestic abuse cases / Vanessa Bettinson, Thomas Crofts and Nicola Wake
21. Grooming, 'rough sex' and coercive control in the criminal law: 'culturally mandated' sex and violence against women / Julia Tolmie, Paulette Benton-Greig and Nicola Gavey
22. Re-framing prosecutorial perceptions of 'justice': Towards the goal of 'thrivership' / Antonia Porter
23. Prosecuting and sentencing domestic abuse in Scotland / Rachel McPherson
24. The law of evidence and the victim of domestic abuse / Tony Ward and Natalie Wortley.

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