The Criminalization of Violence Against Women

Heather Douglas is Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia Kate Fitz-Gibbon is Professor of Social Sciences and Director, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Australia Leigh Goodmark is the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law and director of the Gender, Prison, and Trauma Clinic at the Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Maryland, United States Sandra Walklate is the Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool, England

Acknowledgments
Contributors

Introduction: Whither Criminalization?

PART 1: The Criminalization Agenda: "New" Approaches to Old Problems
1. The Criminalization of Coercive Control: The Benefits and Risks of Criminalization from the Vantage of Victim-Survivors
2. The Criminalization of Psychological Violence in Brazil: Challenges of Legal Recognition and Unintended Consequences
3. Criminalization at the Margins: Downblousing, Creepshots and Image-Based Sexual Abuse
4. Sexual Violence in Criminal Law: Presumptions, Principles, and Premises in Relation to the Crime of Negligent Rape
5. Criminal Justice Responses to Domestic Violence in Fiji

PART 2: Criminalization, criminal justice challenges and consequences.
6. Sentencing Aboriginal Women Who Have Killed their Partners: Do We Really Hear Them?
7. United States v. Maddesyn George: The Consequences of Criminalization for Native Women in the United States
8. Prosecuting Intimate Partner Sexual Violence: Reforming Trial Process by Reimagining the Judicial Role
9. "If it's Good for the Goose, it's Good for the Gander": Perceptions of Police Family Violence Policy Adherence in Victoria, Australia
10. Operationalizing Coercive Control: Early Insights on The Policing Of The Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018
11. The Consequences of Criminalizing Domestic Violence: A Case Study of the Non-Fatal Strangulation Offense in Queensland, Australia

PART 3: Making Sense of Criminalization: Concepts, Context, Activism
12. Human Rights Penality, the Inter-American Approach to Violence Against Women, and the Local Effects of Centring Criminal Justice
13. Intersectionality, Vulnerability, and Punitiveness: Claims of Equality Merging into Categories of Penal Exclusion and Secondary Victimization
14. Dangerous Liaisons: Restorative Justice and the State
15. Bureaucratic Violence: State Neglect of Domestic and Family Violence Victims in Aceh, Indonesia
16. Reclaiming Justice: Understanding the Role of the State and the Collective in Domestic Violence in India.