The Criminalization of Violence Against Women

Heather Douglas is Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, AustraliaKate Fitz-Gibbon is Professor of Social Sciences and Director, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, AustraliaLeigh Goodmark is the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law and director of the Gender, Prison, and Trauma Clinic at the Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Maryland, United StatesSandra Walklate is the Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool, England

• AcknowledgmentsContributors Introduction: Whither Criminalization? PART 1: The Criminalization Agenda: "New" Approaches to Old Problems 1. The Criminalization of Coercive Control: The Benefits and Risks of Criminalization from the Vantage of Victim-Survivors2. The Criminalization of Psychological Violence in Brazil: Challenges of Legal Recognition and Unintended Consequences3. Criminalization at the Margins: Downblousing, Creepshots and Image-Based Sexual Abuse4. Sexual Violence in Criminal Law: Presumptions, Principles, and Premises in Relation to the Crime of Negligent Rape5. Criminal Justice Responses to Domestic Violence in Fiji PART 2: Criminalization, criminal justice challenges and consequences.6. Sentencing Aboriginal Women Who Have Killed their Partners: Do We Really Hear Them?7. United States v. Maddesyn George: The Consequences of Criminalization for Native Women in the United States8. Prosecuting Intimate Partner Sexual Violence: Reforming Trial Process by Reimagining the Judicial Role9. "If it's Good for the Goose, it's Good for the Gander": Perceptions of Police Family Violence Policy Adherence in Victoria, Australia10. Operationalizing Coercive Control: Early Insights on The Policing Of The Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 201811. The Consequences of Criminalizing Domestic Violence: A Case Study of the Non-Fatal Strangulation Offense in Queensland, Australia PART 3: Making Sense of Criminalization: Concepts, Context, Activism 12. Human Rights Penality, the Inter-American Approach to Violence Against Women, and the Local Effects of Centring Criminal Justice13. Intersectionality, Vulnerability, and Punitiveness: Claims of Equality Merging into Categories of Penal Exclusion and Secondary Victimization14. Dangerous Liaisons: Restorative Justice and the State15. Bureaucratic Violence: State Neglect of Domestic and Family Violence Victims in Aceh, Indonesia16. Reclaiming Justice: Understanding the Role of the State and the Collective in Domestic Violence in India.

This ground-breaking anthology challenges the widely held belief that all those involved in the feminist movement to end violence against women seek punitive criminal justice responses to the plight of abused women. The readings show that while some feminists still seek increased enforcement of existing laws and harsher penalties for violent men, this is only part of the picture. Many feminists are now at the forefront of progressive efforts to create holistic, non-criminal justice responses and they warrant careful consideration because they effectively address the needs of marginalized survivors that are not met by criminalization.