Michelle Madden Dempsey

Prosecuting Domestic Violence

A Philosophical Analysis

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides the first serious, sustained philosophical investigation of the criminal prosecution of domestic violence. It provides a theoretical framework for understanding ongoing debates regarding the criminal justice system's response to domestic violence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780199562169
• ISBN-10: 0199562164
• Artikelnr.: 26624039

Autorenporträt

Michelle Madden Dempsey, D.Phil (Oxon, 2007), LL.M. (Dist., LSE, 2002), J.D. (Michigan, 1996), B.A. (Philosophy, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1994), is a CUF lecturer and tutorial fellow at Worcester college, where she teaches criminal law and jurisprudence. Formerly, she was a tutor in law at University College London and an Adjunct Professor of Law at DePaul College of Law in Chicago. Before that, Michelle served as a domestic violence criminal prosecutor and a civil trial lawyer in the U.S.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Some Preliminary Considerations
1: Introduction
2: Wrong Turns on the Way to an Answer
Part II A Fresh Start
3: Prosecutors: What They Are and What They Do
4: Prosecutorial Action and Value
5: Reasons for Prosecutors
Part III Considering Domestic Violence
6: What Counts as Domestic Violence?
7: Patriarchy
8: Domestic-violence Prosecution: Justification and Effectiveness
9: Victims and Prosecutions
10: Conclusion