ABSTRACT
This edited volume represents a joint effort by international experts to analyze the prevalence and nature of gender-based domestic violence across the globe and how it is dealt with at both national and international levels. With studies being conducted in 20 different countries and 4 distinct regions, the contributors to this volume shed light on the ways in which contextual particularities shape the practices and strategies of addressing the socio-cultural and legal problem of gender-based domestic violence in the countries or regions where they do research. Special attention is devoted to developing countries where there is a lack of a consistent legal definition of gender-based domestic violence and where violence against women is widely considered a private matter. The authors of the chapters share a common goal of raising public awareness of the significance in nuanced local experiences of women and other individuals from gender and sexual minority groups facing gender-based violence.
Furthermore, the authors attend, analytically, to the newly emerging, overlapping influences of COVID-19 and global warming. Their research findings acknowledge and provide a detailed account of how the two ecological and socio-economic crises can combine to produce economic devastation, disconnect victims from necessary social services and assistance, and create a large degree of panic and uncertainty. In addition, they intend to offer insights into next steps to not only adjust existing public policies, legislation, and social services to the ever-changing national and global contexts, but also to make new ones.
The book is intended for a wide range of scholars (both professors and students) and practitioners in a large number of areas, including but not limited to criminal justice, criminology, law, human rights, social justice, social work, nursing, sociology, and political or public affairs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
part Section One|93 pages
North and South America
chapter 1|9 pages
The Myth of the Universal Woman
chapter 2|21 pages
Paradigm Shift in Latin American Legislation over Time
chapter 3|12 pages
Gender-Based Violence and Femicide in Mexico
chapter 6|10 pages
Gender-Based Violence in the English-Speaking Caribbean
part Section Two|83 pages
Asia and Oceania
chapter 10|13 pages
Combating Domestic Violence and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence during Conflict
chapter 14|12 pages
“Mobilizing for Punishment”
chapter 15|9 pages
Domestic Violence in Thailand
part Section Three|44 pages
Africa
part Section Four|43 pages
Perpetrators and Victims (Intersectionality: Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Migrant, and Refugee Populations)