Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence By : Leigh Goodmark
Book Excerpt :
Decriminalizing?Domestic?Violence?asks the crucial, yet often overlooked, question of why and how the criminal legal system became the primary response to intimate partner?violence?in the United States. It introduces readers, both new and well versed in the subject, to the ways in which the criminal legal system harms rather than helps those who are subjected to abuse and?violence?in their homes and communities, and shares how it drives, rather than deters, intimate partner?violence. The book examines how social, legal, and financial resources are diverted into a criminal legal apparatus that is often unable to deliver justice or safety to victims or to prevent intimate partner?violence?in the first place. Envisioned for both courses and research topics in?domestic violence, family?violence, gender and law, and sociology of law, the book challenges readers to understand intimate partner?violence?not solely, or even primarily, as a criminal law concern but as an economic, public
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