Gender-Based Violence and the Law

Agnė Limantė is a chief researcher at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences. Artūras Tereškinas is a professor of sociology at Vytautas Magnus University and a chief researcher at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences. Rūta Vaičiūnienė is a senior researcher and the Head of the Criminological Research Department at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences.

List of figures vii

List of tables viii

List of contributors ix

Foreword xvi

DALIA LEINARTĖ

Preface xviii

PART I

Theoretical, political, and legal framework for responding to gender-based violence 1

1 A feminist approach to gender-based violence: the role of the objectification and sexualisation of women 3

SANDRA AMANKAVIČIŪTĖ AND MONIKA ŽALNIERIŪTĖ

2 Failed hegemonic masculinity, negative emotions, and gender-based violence: theories and elaborations 21

ARTŪRAS TEREŠKINAS

3 Gender-based violence in international instruments and case law of the European Court of Human Rights 40

AGNĖ LIMANTĖ

4 The Istanbul Convention in the constitutional jurisprudence of Central and Eastern European states 60

DOVILĖ PŪRAITĖ-ANDRIKIENĖ

PART II

Spotlight on domestic violence 87

5 Approaches to the criminalisation of domestic violence in Central and Eastern Europe 89

JOLANTA APOLEVIČ AND ELŻBIETA KUZBORSKA-PACHA

6 The changing paradigm in help provision for survivors of intimate partner violence: specialised complex help vs generic social help model 109

ZUZANA VASILIAUSKAITĖ, LILIJA HENRIKA VASILIAUSKĖ AND EVELINA DIRMOTAITĖ

7 Rethinking work with intimate partner perpetrators: new prospects for the successful implementation of batterer intervention programmes in Lithuania 128

RŪTA VAIČIŪNIENĖ AND ILONA MICHAILOVIČ

8 The economic empowerment of women as a factor contributing to the prevention of domestic violence 150

JOLANTA APOLEVIČ

9 Gender-based violence against women with disabilities 168

ROKAS USCILA AND DOVILĖ JUODKAITĖ

PART III

Gender-based violence in public spaces 187

10 Sexual harassment in the workplace in Lithuania: what does the silence say? 189

KRISTINA AMBRAZEVIČIŪTĖ

11 What makes academia (un)safe: experiences, observations, and consequences of gender-based violence in different stages of individual researchers’ careers 206

VILANA PILINKAITĖ SOTIROVIČ AND GIEDRĖ BLAŽYTĖ

12 Gender-based violence online: cyberstalking overview in Lithuania 233

LIUBOVĖ JARUTIENĖ, ILONA MICHAILOVIČ AND ILONA LAURINAITYTĖ

Index 255