Queer(y)ing Civil Law Responses to Domestic and Family Violence
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032596099 (ISBN)
Queer(y)ing Civil Law Responses to Domestic and Family Violence offers unique, in-depth insights into the experiences of LGBTQ+ victim-survivors who have engaged with civil protection order systems.
Drawing on data from an Australian study following the experiences of LGBTQ+ victim-survivors of domestic and family violence who engaged with Victoria’s civil protection order system, this book adopts a feminist, queer and trans abolitionist perspective to challenge the assumption that the best response to LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence is a legal one. Problematising responses that fundamentally require increased investment in policing, courts and prisons despite the risks this poses to marginalised individuals and communities, this book centres queer criminology as a framework through which we can situate and critique the rigid victim/perpetrator binaries that are so characteristic of legal responses to violence. This same criminological framework also provides the tools and knowledge needed to envision an alternative, community-oriented response to harm—within and beyond queer communities. In this way, the book presents queer criminology not only as a way of understanding LGBTQ+ experiences, but also as a means for analysing the broader shortcomings of a system that more often exacerbates risk of harm than minimises it.
Queer(y)ing Civil Law Responses to Domestic and Family Violence will be useful for students and scholars of LGBTQ+ violence, as well as a valuable resource for policy makers, legal and specialist practitioners and advocates considering how best to respond to LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence.
Ellen Reeves is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her research considers the unintended consequences of domestic and family violence law reform, with a particular focus on the ‘misidentification’ of victim-survivors as predominant aggressors.
1 Introduction
2 Researching LGBTQ+ victim-survivors’ experiences with the civil protection order system
3 Seeking safety and justice: Queer pathways to the civil protection order system
4 Gatekeeping protection: Policing LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence
5 Binaried risk: Pathways from victim-survivor to perpetrator
6 Just agree to it: LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence in the courtroom
7 (Un)safety and wellbeing following engagement with the civil protection order system
8 (Re)centring abolition in queer criminology: Responding to LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence
9 Appendix
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Queering Criminology and Criminal Justice |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 Tables, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 490 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781032596099 / 9781032596099 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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