Domestic Abuse Disclosure Schemes

Jamie Grace is Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of the Sheffield Institute for Policy Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, based in the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice. In 2020 Jamie was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Victim vulnerability, risk prediction and victim blaming.- Chapter 3. Policy origins of the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme.- Chapter 4. A 'policy spiral' in common law jurisdictions.- Chapter 5. The effectiveness of Domestic Abuse Disclosure Schemes.- Chapter 6. Domestic Abuse Disclosure Schemes in a complex 'regulatory space'.- Chapter 7. The governance and legalities of Domestic Abuse Disclosure Schemes.- Chapter 8. Reflections, conclusions and recommendations.