Marginality and the New Geography of Domestic Violence Policy in Post-Communist Poland

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Brunell
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Domestic Violence Policy ◽  
New Geography

Analysis of Anti-Domestic Violence Policy Implementation in Georgia Using Contextual Interaction Theory (CIT)

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
NINO JAVAKHISHVILI ◽  
GVANTSA JIBLADZE
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Interaction Theory ◽  
Domestic Violence Policy ◽  
Country Of Georgia ◽  
Emerging Democracy ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractThis study examines the development of anti-domestic-violence policy implementation in an emerging democracy, the country of Georgia. We applied a public policy framework – Contextual Interaction Theory (CIT) – which enabled us to thoroughly examine factors contributing to drawbacks in anti-domestic-violence policy implementation. The CIT framework was enriched by expanding it to the scale of the national anti-domestic-violence policy and placing greater emphasis on the victim. The qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews and media reveals that public policy implementers lack motivation, information and power to be able to really implement the anti-domestic-violence policy. The CIT analysis of domestic violence (DV) policies demonstrates that DV problems are further exacerbated by the contextual factors of societal attitudes in terms of gender inequality and social acceptance of DV, which creates unfavorable context for the realisation of the anti-DV policy. In such circumstances, according to the CIT, only symbolic realisation of a policy takes place. The use of CIT as a tool for the implementation of a policy will provide substantial input into its realisation. Based on this theory, it is crucial to increase information, motivation and power of implementers, as well as change the context for the anti-DV policy to be actually implemented.

Domestic Violence Policy, Forensic Mental Health, and the Revival of Rehabilitation: Crossroads or Cross Purposes

Partner Abuse ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-328
Author(s):  
Kenneth Corvo ◽  
Matthew Spitzmueller
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Forensic Mental Health ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Domestic Violence Policy ◽  
Second Wave

Current domestic violence policy was shaped both by second wave feminist initiatives formulated in the 1970s and 1980s and by the culturally conservative concerns of the emerging punitive era. The policy framework that has emerged from the intersection of the seemingly incompatible positions of conservative views of crime and progressive feminist views of liberation in fact has come to resemble more conservative social control than progressive feminism. In spite of known empirical links between domestic violence and psychological disorders, this policy framework ignores many of the principles of forensic mental health practice. Growing awareness of the costs and failures of mass incarceration and the overcriminalization of certain behaviors is leading to a reconsideration of the role of mental health problems in crime overall. These trends may foreshadow a return to a more rehabilitative view of crime and corrections, presenting domestic violence policy with an opportunity to move toward a standpoint more scientific, more compassionate, and more effective.

Domestic Violence Policy

1998 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-191
Author(s):  
Fiona Morton
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Domestic Violence Policy

Domestic Violence Policy: A World of Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 155708512098761
Author(s):  
Joanne Belknap ◽  
Deanne Grant
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Legal System ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Domestic Violence Policy ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Criminal Legal System ◽  
Second Wave

The second wave of the feminist movement brought unprecedented changes in awareness of criminal legal system (CLS) responses to domestic violence (DV). The seemingly feminist “success” in the harsher CLS responses, however, resulted in the disparate criminalization of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and poor individuals, among both DV defendants and victims. Therefore, feminist support for anti-carceral/abolitionist feminism, recognizing the cooptation of feminist ideals within a neoliberal CLS system, has grown. Colonial policing, however, has only tangentially been applied to DV (and other gender-based abuse offenses’) CLS responses. This article advocates for significant changes to policing DV.

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