Domestic and Family Violence: Criminal Justice Interventions
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DOMESTIC violence is a crime. This has been the key policy statement driving government and community reforms for the past 30 years. Criminalisation responds to the critique of early feminists that the privacy of the family created a screen behind which some men brutalised women and children. Criminalisation seeks to introduce the standards and norms of non-violence in public places, and the means of enforcing and regulating these, into people’s more intimate lives. Criminalisation
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تاریخ انتشار 2001