Gender-Based Violence and the Law

Agnė Limantė is a chief researcher at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences.Artūras Tereškinas is a professor of sociology at Vytautas Magnus University and a chief researcher at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences.Rūta Vaičiūnienė is a senior researcher and the Head of the Criminological Research Department at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences.

• List of figures viiList of tables viiiList of contributors ixForeword xviDALIA LEINARTĖPreface xviiiPART ITheoretical, political, and legal framework for responding to gender-based violence 11 A feminist approach to gender-based violence: the role of the objectification and sexualisation of women 3SANDRA AMANKAVIČIŪTĖ AND MONIKA ŽALNIERIŪTĖ2 Failed hegemonic masculinity, negative emotions, and gender-based violence: theories and elaborations 21ARTŪRAS TEREŠKINAS3 Gender-based violence in international instruments and case law of the European Court of Human Rights 40AGNĖ LIMANTĖ4 The Istanbul Convention in the constitutional jurisprudence of Central and Eastern European states 60DOVILĖ PŪRAITĖ-ANDRIKIENĖPART IISpotlight on domestic violence 875 Approaches to the criminalisation of domestic violence in Central and Eastern Europe 89JOLANTA APOLEVIČ AND ELŻBIETA KUZBORSKA-PACHA6 The changing paradigm in help provision for survivors of intimate partner violence: specialised complex help vs generic social help model 109ZUZANA VASILIAUSKAITĖ, LILIJA HENRIKA VASILIAUSKĖ AND EVELINA DIRMOTAITĖ7 Rethinking work with intimate partner perpetrators: new prospects for the successful implementation of batterer intervention programmes in Lithuania 128RŪTA VAIČIŪNIENĖ AND ILONA MICHAILOVIČ8 The economic empowerment of women as a factor contributing to the prevention of domestic violence 150JOLANTA APOLEVIČ9 Gender-based violence against women with disabilities 168ROKAS USCILA AND DOVILĖ JUODKAITĖPART IIIGender-based violence in public spaces 18710 Sexual harassment in the workplace in Lithuania: what does the silence say? 189KRISTINA AMBRAZEVIČIŪTĖ11 What makes academia (un)safe: experiences, observations, and consequences of gender-based violence in different stages of individual researchers’ careers 206VILANA PILINKAITĖ SOTIROVIČ AND GIEDRĖ BLAŽYTĖ12 Gender-based violence online: cyberstalking overview in Lithuania 233LIUBOVĖ JARUTIENĖ, ILONA MICHAILOVIČ AND ILONA LAURINAITYTĖIndex 255