Mandy Burton

Domestic Abuse, Victims and the Law (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides the reader with a thorough understanding of the remedies available to victims of domestic abuse in the civil, family and criminal law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429516092
• Artikelnr.: 64177221

Autorenporträt

Mandy Burton is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. She has published extensively on domestic abuse and the law, including articles, books and reports commissioned by UK government departments and public bodies with the aim of informing policy and improving practice in cases involving vulnerable victims.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Chapter 1: Defining 'abuse': the nature of the problem
Chapter 2: 'Rights' based claims
Chapter 3: Civil Law Remedies- How are they working now?
Chapter 4: Family Law-Child contact the risk of harm
Chapter 5: Policing and Prosecuting- new offence, old problems?
Chapter 6: Defences and Mitigation- the persistence of narratives of woman
blaming
Chapter 7: Hybridisation of legal responses
Chapter 8: The Limitations of Legal Responses and Law Reform
Bibliography
Index