Table of Contents
Contents: Series preface; Introduction; Part I Definition: Definitional issues in violence against women. Surveillance and research from a violence research perspective, Malcolm Gordon; Women's violence to men in intimate relations. Working on a puzzle, Russell P. Dobash and R. Emerson Dobash. Part II Research and Violence Against Women: New survey methodologies in researching violence against women, Sylvia Walby and Andrew Myhill; Violence against women research post VAWA: where have we been, where are we going?, Angela M. Moore Parmley; Theorizing about violence: observations from the economic and social research council’s violence research program Elizabeth A. Stanko. Part III The Justice Response: Intimate partner violence and the justice system, Carol E. Jordan; Law as a Trojan horse: unintended consequences of rights-based interventions to support battered women, Renée Römkens; Protection, prevention, rehabilitation or justice? Women's use of the law to challenge domestic violence, R. Lewis, R.P. Dobash, R.E. Dobash and K. Cavanagh; Justice from the victim's perspective, Judith Lewis Herman. Part IV The Criminal Law: Magistrates' attitudes to domestic violence and sentencing options, Elizabeth Gilchrist and Jacqueline Blisset; Evaluating criminal justice interventions for domestic violence, R. Emerson Dobash and Russell P. Dobash; Police response to domestic violence: from victim choice to victim empowerment?, Carolyn Hoyle and Andrew Sanders. Part V A Human Rights Question: Domestic violence as a human rights issue, Dorothy Q. Thomas and Michele E. Beasley; Righting domestic violence, Shazia Choudhry and Jonathan Herring. Part VI Coping, Staying, Leaving: Violence against women: conditions, consequences and coping, Rebecca Löbmann, Werner Greve, Peter Wetzels and Christiane Bosold; When ending the relationship doesn't end the violence: women's experiences of violence by former partners, Ruth E. Fleury, Cris M. Sullivan and Deborah I. Bybee. Part VII Medi
