A Client’s Crisis Becomes a Legal Crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-31
Author(s):  
Caroline Bettinger-López
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Restraining Order ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Personal Crisis ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Domestic Violence Survivors

In 2005, the Supreme Court found in Castle Rock v. Gonzales that a domestic violence victim had no constitutional right to the enforcement of her restraining order. The Court’s decision precipitated a legal crisis for advocates and a personal crisis for Jessica Gonzales (Lenahan). This chapter explores the strategy decisions that went into pursuing her case at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR) and an assessment of the outcome/results. It also explores the Community Oriented and United Responses to Address Gender Violence and Equality (COURAGE) in Policing Project, an outgrowth of Lenahan v. United States. Finally, it explores the ways in which these and other issues such as international human rights, police response, and gender bias play out today: the election of President Donald Trump, coupled with the rise of the #MeToo movement, have put these crises in sharp relief, particularly for domestic violence survivors who are women of color, immigrant women, and LGBTQ individuals.

Battering Court Syndrome

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alisa Bierria ◽  
Colby Lenz
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Spatial Continuity ◽  
Mitigating Factors ◽  
Failure To Protect ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Legal Defense ◽  
Domestic Violence Survivors

The integral relationship between carceral violence and gender violence has led to the criminalization of thousands of survivors. The criminal prosecution of domestic violence survivors for being unable to prevent their batterers’ abuse of their children, also known as “failure to protect,” reflects this punitive trend. This chapter recommends a paradigm shift from a “mitigating factors” strategy that attempts to provide explanatory context for survivors’ “failure,” to a structural critique that exposes the ideological foundations of “failure to protect.” Considering two case studies, it examines how these prosecutions create a spatial continuity of violence between domestic space and court space, revealing how the violence of punitivity and confinement becomes violence that is co-threatened by batterers and court actors. It proposes Battering Court Syndrome (BCS) as a framework from which to theorize the criminalization of survivors, a political diagnosis of the institutionalization of domestic violence, and a possible legal defense strategy.

Developing a National Plan of Action on Violence against Women and Gender Violence

2019 ◽  
pp. 362-378
Author(s):  
Caroline Bettinger-López
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Sex Discrimination ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
National Plan ◽  
National Action Plan ◽  
Violence Against Women Act ◽  
State And Local ◽  
And Gender

International human rights treaties and monitoring bodies have repeatedly called upon governments to develop national plans of action to eliminate violence against women. Although the U.S. is a global leader in the violence against women arena, it has never developed a national plan of action. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), despite its substantial contributions, does not contain some of the core features of a national action plan—such as a strategic vision for ending violence against women, or a declaration that violence against women is a human rights violation and a form of sex discrimination, or a set of goals or benchmarks to measure progress. This chapter examines the key elements of national action plans on violence against women, and ultimately argues that in the Trump era, a national action plan can best be developed through coordinated action at the state and local levels.

scholarly journals COMO PROBLEMATIZAR AS VIOLÊNCIAS DE GÊNERO NA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL? UMA PROPOSTA EM DISCUSSÃO

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Jane Felipe ◽  
Jéssica Tairâne Moraes
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Child Education ◽  
Gender Scripts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Continuous Work

RESUMOEste trabalho tem por objetivo discutir as violências de gênero e suas implicações e consequências na Educação Infantil, pois muitas crianças vivenciam situações de violência intrafamiliar. Nosso compromisso como educadores/as tem sido problematizar o tema, tendo como referencial teórico os Estudos de Gênero e os Estudos Culturais. Para tanto, realizamos um trabalho contínuo com crianças de quatro e cinco anos, em uma EMEI de Novo Hamburgo/RS, sobre Direitos Humanos e equidade de gênero, promovendo atividades lúdicas e leituras literárias, que visam discutir a divisão do trabalho doméstico, modos de resolução de conflitos e o respeito às diferenças. Os resultados apontam que as crianças foram (re)construindo alguns scripts de gênero, trazendo soluções para as divisões de tarefas.Palavras-chave: Violências de gênero.  Educação Infantil. Scripts de gênero. Prática pedagógica. ABSTRACTThis work aims to discuss gender violence and its implications and consequences in Early Childhood Education, since many children experience situations of intrafamily violence. Our commitment as educators has been to problematize the theme, having as theoretical reference the Studies of Gender and Cultural Studies. For that, we carried out a continuous work with children of four and five years, in an EMEI of Novo Hamburgo / RS, on Human Rights and gender equality, promoting play activities and literary readings, that aim to discuss the division of domestic work, ways of conflict resolution and respect for differences. The results show that children have been (re) constructing some gender scripts, bringing solutions to task divisions.Keywords: Gender violence. Child education. Gender scripts. Pedagogical practice.

Aborto y violencia de género: Percepción y decisiones de las mujeres. / Abortion and gender violence: Women´s perception and decisions.

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (09) ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Valery Dawson ◽  
Marcela Weintraub
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Unwanted Pregnancy ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Relevant Issue ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Level Of Agreement

La penalización del aborto forma parte de la violencia de género y representa una violación a los derechos humanos de las mujeres. El proyecto de Ley para la despenalización del aborto, presentado en Chile el año 2015, ha vuelto a poner en el debate esta materia de alta relevancia para resguardar los derechos y la salud de las mujeres. En los últimos años, se han realizado una serie de estudios en torno al nivel de aprobación de las tres causales que incluye el proyecto de Ley (peligro para la vida de la madre, inviabilidad del feto, y violación). No obstante, no se ha profundizado en la opinión de las mujeres sobre su decisión de interrumpir un embarazo no deseado por estas causales o por otras razones. El presente artículo pretende conocer el nivel de acuerdo de las mujeres con la despenalización del aborto pero, principalmente, busca indagar en las acciones que tomarían frente a la posibilidad de un aborto. The criminalization of abortion is part of gender violence and represents a violation of human rights of women. The draft law to decriminalize abortion, presented in Chile in 2015, has again put in the debate this highly relevant issue to protect the rights and health of women. In the last few years, a series of studies have reported the level of approval of the three causes included in the draft law (preservation of the mother’s life, unviability of the fetus, and rape). Nevertheless, there have been no in depth studies regarding the opinion of women about their decisions to interrupt an unwanted pregnancy, for these causes or for other reasons. This article aims to fill this gap and establish the level of agreement of women about the decriminalization of abortion. It also inquiries on the actions women would take when facing the possibility of an abortion.

Merry, Sally Engle: Human Rights and Gender Violence

Anthropos ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 280-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Smart
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
And Gender

15. Further homicide and related offences

2021 ◽  
pp. 646-688
Author(s):  
David Ormerod ◽  
Karl Laird
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Case Law ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Mercy Killing ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Serious Injury

This chapter deals with further homicide and related offences. It discusses offences ancillary to murder, solicitation and threats to kill, the offence of concealment of birth, complicity in suicide, mercy killing and suicide pacts as well as the Suicide Act 1961. The chapter also covers offences of infanticide, child destruction and abortion. Finally, it then moves on to provide an overview of the offences under the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Acts 2004 and 2012 of causing or allowing a child or vulnerable adult to be killed or caused serious injury. The chapter examines the recent line of case law from the House of Lords and the Supreme Court considering whether the absolute prohibition on assisted suicide violates rights guaranteed in the European Convention on Human Rights.

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