Heather Douglas, Women, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Law (2021). Across the world, millions of women experiencing violence and coercive control by an intimate partner turn to the law for help. Lawyers and justice systems ill-equipped to deal with this complex issue are often accused of missing, and even compounding, harms. Heather Douglas’s Women, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Law documents her study of this phenomenon. Her book is based on the results of a four-year study in which she conducted up to three interviews (n =178 interviews in total) with 65 female survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Australia … (more)
[Francesca Bartlett, JOTWELL, 5 May]
First posted 2022-05-06 08:00:10
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