Description
| Product ID: | 9780367676919 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Crimes of the Powerful |
| Title: | Domestic Violence as State Crime |
| Subtitle: | A Feminist Framework for Challenge and Change |
| Authors: | Author: Evelyn Rose |
| Page Count: | 204 |
| Subjects: | Violence and abuse in society, Violence in society, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology: family and relationships, Social work, Crime and criminology, Causes and prevention of crime, Law and society, gender issues, Legal aspects of criminology, Public international law: human rights, Family law, Social law and Medical law, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies: women, Sociology: family & relationships, Social work, Crime & criminology, Causes & prevention of crime, Gender & the law, Criminology: legal aspects, International human rights law, Family law, Social law, Family & relationships |
| Description: | This book offers an innovative feminist criminological study of family violence and the role of the state, addressing the paucity of scholarly attention to the institutional, structural and state dimensions of male violence in the family and developing the original argument that family violence constitutes a state crime. Domestic Violence as State Crime presents a provocative challenge to the way that domestic violence is understood and addressed. Underpinned by a radical feminist perspective, the central argument of this book is that domestic violence against women constitutes a patriarchal state crime. By analysing the international, collective, structural, and institutional dimensions of this harm, the author outlines a spectrum of state complicity ranging from passive bystander to active producer, participant, and perpetrator. The wide-ranging analysis in this book draws on data from comparable liberal-democratic contexts including Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, in order to comprehensively show how domestic violence state criminality functions in practice – even in the present and in supposedly progressive contexts. This analysis provides valuable insight into why this epidemic-scale crime is ever resistant to a diversity of contemporary interventions. Drawing its concepts into a cohesive whole, the book then posits an overarching feminist typological theory of domestic violence as state crime. It also considers how domestic violence might be addressed if we confront its state crime dimensions and adopt a more holistic and transformative approach to remedy, redress, prevention, and justice. An accessible and compelling read, Domestic Violence as State Crime offers an innovative scholarly and activist contribution to the study of violence against women, feminism, criminology, and the broader critical study of law, politics, and society. It will appeal to anyone who is interested in thinking differently about domestic violence and the state.
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| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-09-25 |
