Queer

y ing Civil Law Responses to Domestic and Family Violence

Ellen Reeves (Monash University)

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English

Routledge
22 August 2025

Regional studies; Humanities; Gender studies, gender groups; Gay & Lesbian studies; Criminal law & procedure

Series: Queering Criminology and Criminal Justice

Queer(y)ing Civil Law Responses to Domestic and Family Violence offers unique, in-depth insights into the experiences of LGBTQ+ victim-survivors who have engaged with civil protection order systems.

Drawing on data from an Australian study following the experiences of LGBTQ+ victim-survivors of domestic and family violence who engaged with Victoria’s civil protection order system, this book adopts a feminist, queer and trans abolitionist perspective to challenge the assumption that the best response to LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence is a legal one. Problematising responses that fundamentally require increased investment in policing, courts and prisons despite the risks this poses to marginalised individuals and communities, this book centres queer criminology as a framework through which we can situate and critique the rigid victim/perpetrator binaries that are so characteristic of legal responses to violence. This same criminological framework also provides the tools and knowledge needed to envision an alternative, community-oriented response to harm—within and beyond queer communities. In this way, the book presents queer criminology not only as a way of understanding LGBTQ+ experiences, but also as a means for analysing the broader shortcomings of a system that more often exacerbates risk of harm than minimises it.

Queer(y)ing Civil Law Responses to Domestic and Family Violence will be useful for students and scholars of LGBTQ+ violence, as well as a valuable resource for policy makers, legal and specialist practitioners and advocates considering how best to respond to LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence.

By: Ellen Reeves (Monash University)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 490g
ISBN: 9781032596099
ISBN 10: 1032596090
Series: Queering Criminology and Criminal Justice
Pages: 170
Publication Date: 22 August 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1 Introduction 2 Researching LGBTQ+ victim-survivors’ experiences with the civil protection order system 3 Seeking safety and justice: Queer pathways to the civil protection order system 4 Gatekeeping protection: Policing LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence 5 Binaried risk: Pathways from victim-survivor to perpetrator 6 Just agree to it: LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence in the courtroom 7 (Un)safety and wellbeing following engagement with the civil protection order system 8 (Re)centring abolition in queer criminology: Responding to LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence 9 Appendix

Ellen Reeves is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her research considers the unintended consequences of domestic and family violence law reform, with a particular focus on the ‘misidentification’ of victim-survivors as predominant aggressors.