scholarly journals Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse as a Form of “Domestic Violence”

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 490-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Holt
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Parent Abuse ◽  
The Family ◽  
Global North ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Across the Global North, adolescent-to-parent abuse (APA) is becoming recognized as a significant social problem and is receiving attention from researchers, policymakers, and practitioners who work in the intersecting fields of juvenile justice, child protection, and domestic violence. One of the key questions shaping current debates concerns the extent to which APA maps onto the contours of domestic violence, in terms of research and theory, policy, and practice. In particular, to what extent can our established ways of working with domestic violence be applied when working with APA? This article begins by reviewing definitions and prevalence rates of APA. It then considers how the problem fits into the “family conflicts” and “gender-based violence” paradigms that are most frequently used to conceptualize domestic violence. The article then examines how APA represents a similar but distinct phenomenon to adult-instigated domestic violence and identifies how its departures represent particular challenges in working toward its elimination. The article concludes by reviewing intervention programs that work with APA and exploring some of the ways in which they adopt and reject elements of good practice from the domestic violence practice field.

Victimological Imaginations

2019 ◽  
pp. 155-185
Author(s):  
Kjersti Lohne
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
International Criminal Justice ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
International Crimes ◽  
Global North ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

The figure of the victim is the sine qua non of the fight against impunity for international crimes. Engaging the victimological imagination of international criminal justice, the chapter shows how victims are represented, and how justice for victims is imagined. The first part focuses on imaginations of ‘justice for victims’, and argues that the ICC represents a form of hybrid justice by incorporating ‘restorative’ and ‘transformative’ rationales for justice. Unlike ordinary courts, the ICC incorporates what can be thought of as both ‘punitive’ and ‘reparative’ arms. Part of the latter is the Rome Statute’s provisions for victims’ rights to participation and reparation. However, a closer look at the implementation of these processes reveal a conspicuous discrepancy between ideologies and realities. The second part of the chapter situates victims as a source of moral authority, and one that is claimed in representational practices by both human rights NGOs and international criminal justice generally. The chapter explores suffering as a type of ‘currency’, both on an individual level for victims’ advocates, as their source of ‘purpose’, and on a broader cultural level as the source of ‘global’ moral outcry. The chapter demonstrates how the victim is culturally represented through imaginations from the global North and becomes universalized as a symbol of humanity, of which the gendered and racialized victim of sexual and gender-based violence provides particularly powerful victim imagery. In this way, the image of the victim of international crimes is characterized by her essential ‘otherness’: it is humanity that suffers.

Stabbed, shot, left to die: Christy Martin and gender-based violence in boxing

2020 ◽  
pp. 101269022097971
Author(s):  
Cathy van Ingen
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
Criminal Trial ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
World Champion ◽  
A Site

This article presents a biographical narrative of Christy Martin, a former world champion boxer who survived being stabbed and shot by her trainer/husband. Rooted in a sociological imagination, this biographic research chronicles Martin’s boxing career and its entanglements with gender-based violence. The boxing industry has a widely acknowledged, yet under-reported, problem with men’s violence against women. This article aims to illustrate that women’s boxing should be critically examined for the ways in which it functions both as a site of and a sanctuary from gender-based violence. Within this paper, I draw from media coverage of Christy Martin’s boxing career, over 700 pages of transcripts from the subsequent criminal trial, an interview with Martin, as well as my own research in women’s boxing, including work with survivors of domestic violence.

scholarly journals Building Empowerment, Resisting Patriarchy: Understanding intervention against domestic violence among grassroots women in Gujarat, India

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
soma chaudhuri ◽  
Merry Morash
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Sense Of Agency ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
The Family ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Gender Based

This research explores how empowerment programs impact gender based violence and the socialstructures that lead to such violence in the first place. Drawing from interviews with formerparticipants in empowerment programs that focus on building community leaders, the studyexamines how grassroots women lead interventions and the resulting effects on leaders’ andsurvivors’ lives. Findings suggest that although most survivors had displayed some agency inindependently resisting violence, their efforts are effective when coupled with a support networkand access to resources. With the intervention of leaders, the survivors were able to betternegotiate for justice with a renewed sense of agency. For the leaders, participation in programsgave them an identity independent from their status within the family. They promoted change bydeveloping independent innovative intervention strategies that worked despite the tight structuralconstraints of gendered norms.

scholarly journals Towards Comprehensive Guidance for States in the African Region to respond to Children’s Rights in Emergencies, Disasters and Pandemics

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 447-474
Author(s):  
Nicole Bouah ◽  
Julia Sloth-Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
African Region ◽  
Genital Mutilation ◽  
Reproductive Services ◽  
Global North ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Abstract The covid-19 pandemic spread has it impacted health systems, economies and communities across the African continent. It has also exacerbated risks already faced by children: limiting access to education, reducing protection from sexual and gender-based violence, harmful traditional and cultural practices including child, early or forced marriage (cefm), female genital-mutilation (fgm); and further limiting access to reproductive services and food insecurity. This article illustrates that because demonstrably different considerations arise by comparison to children’s experiences in the global north, it would be a valuable contribution for the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child to develop a General Comment on state responses to upholding children’s rights in the context of epidemics, pandemics and emergencies, tailored to the specificities of the region.

scholarly journals ‘I have a story to tell’: Researching migrant women’s experiences of female genital mutilation and gender-based violence in Ireland and Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 134-151
Author(s):  
Siobán O’Brien Green
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Female Genital Mutilation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Genital Mutilation ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Female Genital

This article presents insights and practical lessons learned from multiple studies the author has undertaken and participated in as principal or co-researcher and/or provided expert guidance to in Ireland and Europe. These studies primarily focus on gender-based violence (GBV) and female genital mutilation (FGM) and given their foci, have an implicit need for cognisance of child protection, legislation and onward referral procedures. The research issues of interest are often considered taboo, private, not to be discussed outside immediate family and shameful. There are multiple practical and logistical barriers, as well as language and psycho-social obstacles, to participating in, and undertaking, research on these issues. The article discusses the approaches and routes taken to recruit women affected and impacted by the issues of FGM and GBV for research studies. The responsibility on researchers to present research study findings in a sensitive manner which does not add stigma to marginalised and vulnerable groups, but that enables policy makers to utilise the research for legislative and practical purposes, is also discussed.Keywords: gender-based violence (GBV); female genital mutilation (FGM); migration; ethics; stigma; research design

scholarly journals COMBATING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AS AN OBJECT OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL REGULATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-160
Author(s):  
Н. Ю. Грідіна
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Social Program ◽  
Field Of View ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Standard Program ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

The article proves that the prevention of gender-based violence as an object of administrative and legal regulation is a system of measures defined by law, which are carried out by the relevant authorities to stop such violence, provide assistance to victims, ensure their protection, victims receive compensation, and also ensuring proper investigation and prosecution of the perpetrators. Based on the analysis of the current legislation, it is established that the issues of combating gender-based violence are in the field of view of public authorities. The available legal framework covers the main areas of such counteraction. However, statistics that show an increase in the number of cases of gender-based violence necessitate the improvement of mechanisms for preventing and combating gender-based violence, as well as the interaction of actors in this area. It was found that in 2020, the Decree of the President of Ukraine decided to recognize the need for immediate implementation of measures aimed at protecting the rights and interests of victims of domestic violence and gender-based violence. In this regard, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine was instructed, in particular: to develop and approve a state social program to prevent and combat domestic violence and gender-based violence until 2025; approval of a standard program for victims, as well as improvement of a standard program for offenders, providing appropriate guidelines for the implementation of such programs; ensure the development of bills aimed at establishing liability for harassment (stalking), including through the use of electronic means of communication, such as gender-based violence. The lack of effectiveness of the mechanism for preventing and combating gender-based violence and ensuring the protection of the rights of victims of such violence is emphasized, which is one of the main problems in this area and necessitates the improvement of relevant legislation.

scholarly journals Domestic violence: Evidence-based policies before and during the pandemic in Greece

Temida ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23
Author(s):  
Vasiliki Artinopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Critical Aspects

Domestic violence and gender-based violence has been studied and recognised for many years in Greece. Adequate legislation on the criminalization of domestic violence has been implemented since 2006 (Law 3500/2006 on the Confrontation of Domestic Violence). A network of support services has also operated across the country for many years, staffed with professionals trained in the gender-sensitive perspective. However, Greece still faces the impact of the economic crisis that started in 2010 and the critical aspects of the crisis from the reduction of the public budget imposed by the European institutions in the lives of the individuals, the victims and the providers of the social services have not been fully assessed yet. The COVID-19 pandemic created problems in the victims? access to social services and not only. The shadow pandemic describes the alarm on the increase of domestic violence during the pandemic and the isolation of the victims from the providers of social and psychological support. Addressing both the issue of domestic violence through a victim-centered approach before and during the pandemic in Greece and the need for the implementation of evidence-based policies are the general aims of the paper. To this, we present few findings from an original victimological online research on domestic violence during the first lockdown in the country (March to May 2020) and we justify the need for the implementation of evidence-based policies in the criminal justice system in Greece.

scholarly journals Frontline Response to High Impact Domestic Violence in Hungary

2021 ◽  
pp. 201-214
Author(s):  
Gábor Héra ◽  
Dóra Szegő
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
Physical Injuries ◽  
Telephone Helpline ◽  
The Family

The first part of the chapter describes the legalisation of domestic violence. The Criminal Code criminalises domestic violence, including several areas of domestic violence such as emotional, physical, economic, and sexual violence. Two main limitations are that the Criminal Code does not sanction verbal abuse, and the police are obliged to file a criminal complaint ex officio only if domestic violence involves serious physical injuries. In all other cases, it is upon the request of the victim to file a criminal complaint against the offender. The second part of the chapter describes the roles of the different front-line agencies in responding to domestic violence; the police, the Child Protection Perceiving and Reporting System, the Guardianship office, the family support and child welfare services and the different NGO's that operate crisis management and different helplines. The next part of the chapter introduces the work of the National Crisis Telephone Helpline as a good practice of cooperation between stakeholders that helps victims of domestic violence and human trafficking through a free of charge telephone line. The last part shows the main challenges and shortcomings characterising the handling of domestic violence in Hungary.

A LOOK AT DOMESTIC AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN PORTUGAL: FROM LAW TO DISCOURSES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Marques
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Portuguese Society ◽  
Victims Of Violence ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Despite legislative advancements, domestic violence is still today a crime considered as "minor" by many, or often the actions that materialise it are not even recognised. The first steps in Portuguese legislation were taken by the Penal Code approved in 1982, which typified the crime of ill-treatment between spouses, and by the Law n. º 61/91 of 13th of August, which guaranteed “adequate protection to women victims of violence”. However, only in 2007, was the crime of Domestic Violence created, which shows, from 1982 until then, a long path of hesitations and slow social evolution concerning the consciousness of this crime’s seriousness. Until 2007, the crime of spousal abuse was integrated in a broader criminal arrangement, characterised by the abuse of persons. In 2009, with the typification of the crime of Domestic Violence and with the publication of the legal regime applicable to the prevention, protection, and assistance of victims, denominated as Law of Domestic Violence, a more consolidated phase was inaugurated, in both legal treatment and social intervention. Despite these evolutions, Portugal continues to witness an attitude of "social and collective consent" to some forms of Domestic Violence, oftentimes disguised in the acceptance and normalisation of gender inequalities. We have seen news stories where judgements are presented, within the scope of Domestic Violence cases, where discriminatory ideas against women and excuses for the crime of Domestic Violence are manifested. This is proof that some of the representatives of justice (the judges) do not accept what has already been legally approved in the Portuguese legal system. Similarly, recent studies on the population’s perception of domestic and gender-based violence show the abiding ideas and understandings of acceptance and normalisation of domestic and gender-based violence in Portuguese society. We intend to present the evolution of the typification of the crime of domestic violence in Portugal. Then, we intend to understand how this phenomenon has been perceived in Portuguese society. Therefore, we will be able to understand the continuities and ruptures between the legislative body and the social body in what concerns Domestic Violence and Violence against Women in Portugal.

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