The Criminalization of Violence Against Women: Comparative Perspectives

by Douglas

Historically states have failed to seriously confront violence against women. In response, in many countries women's rights movements have called on the government to prioritize state intervention in cases involving violence between intimate partners, sexual harassment, rape, and sexual assault by both strangers and intimate partners. Those interventions have taken various forms, including the passage of substantive civil and criminal laws governing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197651844
• ISBN13: 9780197651841
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 8.9"