Kate Fitz-Gibbon is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University and an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool.Sandra Walklate is Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, conjoint Chair of Criminology, Monash University and Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Criminology.Jude McCulloch is Professor of Criminology in the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University.JaneMaree Maher is Professor in the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research, Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University.All editors are members of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Research Program.

• Introduction: Intimate Partner Violence, Risk and Security: Securing Women’s Lives in A Global World, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate, Jude McCulloch, and JaneMaree Maher, Part I: Challenges in the Contemporary Global Policy Framework. 1. Securitising Sexual Violence: Transitions from War to Peace, Anette Bringedal Houge and Inger Skjelsbæk, 2. Climate Change, The Production of Gendered Insecurity and Slow Intimate Partner Violence, Nancy Wonders, 3. Spacelessness, Spatiality and Intimate Partner Violence: Technology-Facilitated Abuse, Stalking and Justice, Bridget Harris, 4. Challenging Risk: The Production of Knowledge on Gendered Violence in South Africa, Floretta Boozanier, 5. Surveying the Womanscape: Objectification, Self-Objectification, and Intimate Partner Violence, Jan Jordan, Part II: National Security, Difference and Precarity. 6. Mapping Gender Violence Narratives in the Northern Triangle of Central America, Leda Lozier, 7. Temporary Migration and Family Violence: The Borders of Coercive Control, Marie Segrave, 8. Misunderstanding Risk, Migration and Ethnicity in Intimate Partner Violence, Gemma Varona Martinez, 9. ¿QUE DIRÁN? Making Sense of the Impact of Latinas’ Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence in New York City, Yolanda Oritiz and Jayne Mooney, Part III: Everyday Security and Criminal Justice Questions. 10. The Criminalisation of Femicide, Thiago Pierobom de Ávila, 11. Considering Victim Safety When Sentencing Intimate Partner Offenders, Julia Tolmie, 12. Domestic Violence Protection Orders and Their Role in Ensuring Personal Security, Heather Douglas, 13. Negotiating Women’s Safety: The Mandatory Charging Debate, Holly Johnson and Deborah E. Conners, 14. Criminalising Private Torture as Feminist Strategy: Thinking Through the Implications, Elizabeth A. Sheehy, Conclusion: Securing Women’s Lives: Making Them Count and Accounting for Men’s Violence, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate, Jude McCulloch, and JaneMaree Maher

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