Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence

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Leigh Goodmark

Decriminalizing Domestic Violence

A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence

Leigh Goodmark

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University of California Press
01 October 2018

Domestic violence; Gender studies, gender groups; Crime & criminology; Gender & the law; Family law

Series: Gender and Justice

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 health, community, and human rights problem. It also argues that only by viewing intimate partner violence through these lenses can we develop a balanced policy agenda for addressing it. At a moment when we are examining our national addiction to punishment, Decriminalizing Domestic Violence offers a thoughtful, pragmatic roadmap to real reform.

By: Leigh Goodmark
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 7
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780520295568
ISBN 10: 0520295560
Series: Gender and Justice
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 01 October 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Introduction Intimate Partner Violence Is... 1. A Criminal Justice Problem? 2. An Economic Problem 3. A Public Health Problem 4. A Community Problem 5. A Human Rights Problem 6. A Balanced Policy Approach Notes Bibliography Index

Leigh Goodmark is the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law and Director of the Gender Violence Clinic at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, Professor Goodmark was the Director of Clinical Education and Co-director of the Center on Applied Feminism at the University of Baltimore School of Law. From 2000 to 2003, Professor Goodmark was the Director of the Children and Domestic Violence Project at the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law. Before joining the Center on Children and the Law, Professor Goodmark represented women subjected to abuse and children in the District of Columbia in custody, visitation, child support, restraining order, and other civil matters. Professor Goodmark is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School.