Domestic violence legislation in Zimbabwe:

This chapter reports a set of experiments that consider people’s appraisals of specific policy compromises in Congress, focusing on whether people like compromises less once they understand what types of policy concessions they entail. Drawing on recent congressional compromises on domestic violence legislation, education reform, and health-care policy, the experiments test whether people evaluate Congress and its policy outcomes differently when bills are represented as compromises where both sides made concessions in order to achieve policy gains. The results show that people are disappointed when they learn that a bill failed to pass due to members of Congress refusing to compromise. Members of Congress do not seem to be penalized for their support of compromise legislation. Policy compromises serve to boost the perceived legitimacy of the decision-making process, particularly among those who are ideologically opposed to the outcome.

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LEGISLATION: EXPLORING ITS IMPACT ON THE LIKELIHOOD OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, POLICE INVOLVEMENT, AND ARREST*

Criminology & Public Policy ◽

10.1111/j.1745-9133.2003.tb00126.x ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 283-312 ◽

Cited By ~ 67

Author(s):

LAURA DUGAN

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Domestic Violence Legislation

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Continued State Liability for Police Inaction in Assisting Victims of Domestic Violence: A Reflection on the Implementation of South Africa's Domestic Violence Legislation

Journal of African Law ◽

10.1017/s0021855319000081 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 63 (1) ◽

pp. 53-77 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Amanda Spies

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

South African ◽

Violence Against Women ◽

The Social ◽

Women's Lives ◽

Failure To Protect ◽

State Liability ◽

Domestic Violence Legislation ◽

Legal Understanding ◽

The Impact

AbstractNow that it has been in operation for 20 years, it is necessary to reflect on the impact the South African Domestic Violence Act has had on women's lives. This article analyses this key legislation and the police's duty to ensure its proper implementation. It focuses on the reports of the Independent Complaints Directorate and Civilian Secretariat of Police, the bodies responsible for measuring police compliance with the act. The reports identify serious transgressions, highlighting the police's perception that domestic violence is a private affair with which it should not interfere. This perception plays a particularly subtle and destructive role in legitimizing, supporting and permitting violence against women. In focusing on key court decisions in which the state (police) was held financially accountable for the failure to protect women against violence, the author highlights the importance of challenging the social and legal understanding of women's experiences with violence in promoting a system that takes account of those experiences.

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Implementation of Mongolia�s Domestic Violence Legislation

Human Rights Documents online ◽

10.1163/2210-7975_hrd-3601-2014016 ◽

2016 ◽

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Domestic Violence Legislation

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Collective Activism: The Domestic Violence Bill becoming Law in Ghana

African and Asian Studies ◽

10.1163/156921008x359597 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 395-421 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Akosua Adomako Ampofo

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Social Movements ◽

Civil Society ◽

Political Power ◽

The State ◽

Citizenship Rights ◽

National Coalition ◽

Domestic Violence Legislation ◽

Collective Activism

Abstract This article reflects on contemporary struggles for citizenship rights through an examination of civil society's advocacy for the passage of domestic violence legislation in Ghana. The National Coalition on Domestic Violence Legislation, established in 2003 specifically to push for the passage of the legislation, at various times worked closely with, and at other times independently of, or even in conflict with, the state. These processes and engagements point to the vibrancy of civil society and suggest the need for new analyses of social movements, political power and democracy that are rooted in Africa's contemporary realities.

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