Is Domestic Violence Politicized Too Narrowly?

2019 ◽  
pp. 303-331
Author(s):  
Jamie R. Abrams
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Victim Support ◽  
Domestic Violence Movement

This Chapter argues that the domestic violence movement is narrowly politicized around the internalities of domestic violence in ways that unintentionally restrain law reform efforts to end family violence. While this internalities frame achieved critical successes in bringing domestic violence into the public frame and shaping critical interventions to it, it also collaterally immunized the state from accountability by paradoxically positioning the crisis of domestic violence and accountability for effective interventions squarely on victims and victim support networks. Expanding the politicization of domestic violence to also include the externalities of domestic violence is a critical – albeit uncomfortable – shift to move from intervening in domestic violence on behalf of victims to ending domestic violence.

scholarly journals The Austrian Act on the Protection against Domestic Violence

Temida ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albin Dearing
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
General Public ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Impact

The past few years have seen a fundamental and broadly based change in the response to domestic violence perpetrated by men against women. The Act on Protection against Domestic Violence which entered into force on May 1st, 1997 reflects this new orientation, or rather this shift in paradigm, which has led to a new understanding of the phenomenon of domestic violence and defines appropriate response by the state by it. The impact of this shift in paradigm is considerable: not only have public authorities and private women?s institutions changed their attitudes towards domestic violence, but the general public now responds to this phenomenon in a manner that is entirely different from what it was prior to the approach. Reports on cases of violence no longer merely state the facts indifferently, but now invariably end with the question whether the authorities had been informed and whether they had taken any action to prevent the crime. Thus the public authorities have come to assume responsibility for combating domestic violence as a result of societal developments.

Corporate killing law reform: A spatio-temporal fix to a crisis of capitalism?

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Bittle ◽  
Lori Stinson
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The State ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
The Public ◽  
Accountability Measures ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Criminal Legislation

The first decade of the new millennium saw the governments of Canada and the United Kingdom enact criminal legislation intended to hold corporations accountable for negligently killing workers and/or members of the public. Drawing empirically from document analyses and semistructured interviews, as well as theoretical insights concerning the crisis-prone tendencies of capital, this article demonstrates how both laws were conceived in ways that spatio-temporally delimited the ‘problem’ of corporate killing and re-secured the (neoliberal) capitalist status quo. In so doing, we argue that the inability of the state to hold powerful corporations and corporate actors to account for their serious offending presents strategic opportunities for demanding improved accountability measures and changes to a system responsible for so much bloodshed and killing.

scholarly journals The Inoperative Domestic Violence in Iraq and Its Role in Community Equity

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 275-314
Author(s):  
Esraa Hamid Gharib Al-Hamdani
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Specific Community ◽  
Physical Effects

The phenomenon of domestic violence is one of the phenomena that human society has known since ancient times. It is not a product of the present time; Indeed، violence has existed since God Almighty began to create humanity. It is a historical fact that its emergence was linked to the existence of man and developed during his human journey and civilized growth. Family violence is a global phenomenon، as it is one of the problems that are widespread worldwide. As violence is not related to a specific community، there is hardly a community of societies devoid of manifestations of violence، whether apparent or latent within the simple family framework، and family violence takes different forms that differ in form، gravity، meaning and purpose، and the seriousness of the phenomenon of domestic violence is that it is a common and dangerous phenomenon and that Its effects are not limited to the physical effects only، but also to the psychological effects that result from the victim affecting his adaptation and thus his compatibility، and this in turn reflects negatively on the family، which is the first building block of the human being and society. Whereas the widespread manifestations of domestic violence directed against women and the family are causing negative effects on society، the family، the public order، and on the development and development of society، in order to reduce these manifestations; The treatment of this scourge is a matter that imposes it. It was of great importance to clarify how the Iraqi legislator deals with domestic violence and to work to disrupt it and preserve the family entity from it، by reviewing what is already in the Iraqi penal code، personal status، and other Iraqi juvenile legislation as is the case in Iraqi Domestic Violence Protection Law related to the research topic.

scholarly journals The State of Children during Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Maryam Iftikhar ◽  
Komal Iftikhar
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Government ◽  
Witnessing Domestic Violence ◽  
Screen Use

Coronavirus and pandemics have led to drastic and unexpected changes in the whole world. It has affected people’s lives and their ways of living drastically. Although lockdowns and mobility restrictions were imposed to save lives, on the other hand, it put the lives of the underprivileged population at other risks too such as violence and abuse. This paper attempts to describe the situation of children during this epidemic of covid-19. Evidence and researches proved that emergency situations are significantly related to an increased level of violence, especially against children. A number of problems from which children suffered during pandemic and lockdown have been discussed such as excessive screen use, domestic child abuse, witnessing domestic violence, etc. Furthermore, this paper also suggests essential recommendations for not only the government but also for the public as they must corporate with the government in such high alert times.

scholarly journals Locked Down with the Perpetrator: The Hidden Impacts of COVID-19 on Domestic and Family Violence in Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 204-222
Author(s):  
Christine Morley ◽  
Kerry Carrington ◽  
Vanessa Ryan ◽  
Shane Warren ◽  
Jo Clarke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Violent Relationships ◽  
The Public ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Impact

Prior to the COVID-19 global pandemic, domestic and family violence (DFV) had been recognised globally as an epidemic in its own right. Further, research has established that during times of crisis and/or after disasters, rates of DFV can escalate. The COVID-19 pandemic has been no exception, with emerging research from around the world confirming that the public health measures and social effects associated with COVID-19 have increased the frequency and severity of DFV in various countries. In contributing to this evolving body of literature, this paper reports on the findings of a national research project that examined the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic on DFV in Australia. This nationwide survey of service providers indicates the public health responses to COVID-19 such as lockdowns and travel restrictions, while necessary to stem the pandemic, have had profound effects on increasing women’s risk and vulnerability to domestic violence, while at the same time making it more difficult for women to leave violent relationships and access support. However, this vulnerability is not evenly distributed. The pandemic pushed marginalised voices further underground, with many unable to seek help, locked down with their abuser. Our survey sought to amplify the experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities; Indigenous communities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, + (LGBTIQ+) communities; women locked down with school-age children; those already in violent relationships; and those whose first experience of domestic violence coincided with the onset of the pandemic. For logistical and ethical reasons, we could only access their voices through the responses from the domestic violence sector.

Is economic inequality a universal evil?

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rostislav I. Kapeliushnikov
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
The State ◽  
Fair Play ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Public ◽  
Discursive Power ◽  
A Current

Using published estimates of inequality for two countries (Russia and USA) the paper demonstrates that inequality measuring still remains in the state of “statistical cacophony”. Under this condition, it seems at least untimely to pass categorical normative judgments and offer radical political advice for governments. Moreover, the mere practice to draw normative conclusions from quantitative data is ethically invalid since ordinary people (non-intellectuals) tend to evaluate wealth and incomes as admissible or inadmissible not on the basis of their size but basing on whether they were obtained under observance or violations of the rules of “fair play”. The paper concludes that a current large-scale ideological campaign of “struggle against inequality” has been unleashed by left-wing intellectuals in order to strengthen even more their discursive power over the public.

Settler Colonialism and the Revolutionary War

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-35
Author(s):  
Andrea Lynn Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
End Point ◽  
Indian Land ◽  
Indian Relations ◽  
Major General

The centerpiece of New York State’s 150th anniversary of the Sullivan Expedition of 1779 was a pageant, the “Pageant of Decision.” Major General John Sullivan’s Revolutionary War expedition was designed to eliminate the threat posed by Iroquois allied with the British. It was a genocidal operation that involved the destruction of over forty Indian villages. This article explores the motivations and tactics of state officials as they endeavored to engage the public in this past in pageant form. The pageant was widely popular, and served the state in fixing the expedition as the end point in settler-Indian relations in New York, removing from view decades of expropriations of Indian land that occurred well after Sullivan’s troops left.

IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT DEBT ON FINANCIAL SECURITY OF UKRAINE

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olena Pikaliuk ◽  
◽  
Dmitry Kovalenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
The State ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
State Budget ◽  
The Public ◽  
Debt Security ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Impact

One of the main criteria for economic development is the size of the public debt and its dynamics. The article considers the impact of public debt on the financial security of Ukraine. The views of scientists on the essence of public debt and financial security of the state are substantiated. An analysis of the dynamics and structure of public debt of Ukraine for 2014-2019. It is proved that one of the main criteria for economic development is the size of public debt and its dynamics. State budget deficit, attracting and using loans to cover it have led to the formation and significant growth of public debt in Ukraine. The volume of public debt indicates an increase in the debt security of the state, which is a component of financial security. Therefore, the issue of the impact of public debt on the financial security of Ukraine is becoming increasingly relevant. The constant growth and large amounts of debt make it necessary to study it, which will have a positive impact on economic processes that will ensure the stability of the financial system and enhance its security.

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