Everyday Harm
Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation
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2007
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University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-07408-0 (ISBN)
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
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By investigating the harms routinely experienced by the victims and survivors of domestic violence, both inside and outside of law, this work studies the limits of what domestic violence law can - and cannot - accomplish. It combines detailed ethnographic research and theoretical analysis.
Exposing the powerful contradictions between empowering rights and legal rites
By investigating the harms routinely experienced by the victims and survivors of domestic violence, both inside and outside of law, Everyday Harm studies the limits of what domestic violence law can--and cannot--accomplish. Combining detailed ethnographic research and theoretical analysis, Mindie Lazarus-Black illustrates the ways persistent cultural norms and ingrained bureaucratic procedures work to unravel laws designed to protect the safety of society's most vulnerable people.
Lazarus-Black's fieldwork in Trinidad traces a story with global implications about why and when people gain the right to ask the court for protection from violence, and what happens when they pursue those rights in court. Why is itthat, in spite of laws designed to empower subordinated people, so little results from that legislation? What happens in and around courts that makes it so difficult for people to obtain their legally available rights and protections? In the case of domestic violence law, what can such legislation mean for women's empowerment, gender equity, and protection? How do cultural norms and practices intercept the law?
Exposing the powerful contradictions between empowering rights and legal rites
By investigating the harms routinely experienced by the victims and survivors of domestic violence, both inside and outside of law, Everyday Harm studies the limits of what domestic violence law can--and cannot--accomplish. Combining detailed ethnographic research and theoretical analysis, Mindie Lazarus-Black illustrates the ways persistent cultural norms and ingrained bureaucratic procedures work to unravel laws designed to protect the safety of society's most vulnerable people.
Lazarus-Black's fieldwork in Trinidad traces a story with global implications about why and when people gain the right to ask the court for protection from violence, and what happens when they pursue those rights in court. Why is itthat, in spite of laws designed to empower subordinated people, so little results from that legislation? What happens in and around courts that makes it so difficult for people to obtain their legally available rights and protections? In the case of domestic violence law, what can such legislation mean for women's empowerment, gender equity, and protection? How do cultural norms and practices intercept the law?
Mindie Lazarus-Black is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Legitimate Acts and Illegal Encounters: Law and Society in Antigua and Barbuda and other works.
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Vanishing Complainant 1. Imagining and Implementing Domestic Violence Law 2. A Look at the Numbers 3. The Meaning of Success 4. Court Rites 5. It's All in the Timing: Time and the Legal Process 6. Cultures of Reconciliation Conclusion: How Law Works Notes Bibliography Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.6.2007 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 10 tables |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 513 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-252-07408-4 / 0252074084 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-252-07408-0 / 9780252074080 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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