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Missing Coercive Control In Family Court Proceedings, Carrie Leonetti
Missing Coercive Control In Family Court Proceedings, Carrie Leonetti
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
In New Zealand, like in the United States, coercive control generally remains outside the purview of the criminal law. It is therefore crucially important that court personnel identify and respond appropriately to coercive control in family law proceedings. Their continued focus on discrete incidents of physical violence between adults conceals the patterned and gendered nature of most [interpersonal violence] in which women are victimized and the patriarchal context of male privilege that continues to dominate heterosexual relationships. The failure to identify coercive control contributes to victims’ entrapment and increases the risk of violence continuing post-separation.
Cases involving coercive control generally …
Judicial Patriarchy And Domestic Violence: A Challenge To The Conventional Family Privacy Narrative, Elizabeth Katz
Judicial Patriarchy And Domestic Violence: A Challenge To The Conventional Family Privacy Narrative, Elizabeth Katz
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
According to the conventional domestic violence narrative, judges historically have ignored or even shielded “wife beaters” as a result of the patriarchal prioritization of privacy in the home. This Article directly challenges that account. In the early twentieth century, judges regularly and enthusiastically protected female victims of domestic violence in the divorce and criminal contexts. As legal and economic developments appeared to threaten American manhood and traditional family structures, judges intervened in domestic violence matters as substitute patriarchs. They harshly condemned male perpetrators—sentencing men to fines, prison, and even the whipping post—for failing to conform to appropriate husbandly behavior, while …
Coercing Pregnancy, A. Rachel Camp
Coercing Pregnancy, A. Rachel Camp
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
Intimate partners coerce thousands of women in the United States into pregnancy each year through manipulation, threats of violence, or acts that deliberately interfere with the use of, or access to, contraception or abortion. Although many of these pregnancies occur within the context of otherwise abusive relationships, for others, pregnancy serves as a trigger for intimate partner violence. Beyond violence preceding or resulting from pregnancy, women who experience coerced pregnancies often suffer other physical, financial and emotional harms. Despite its correlation to domestic violence, reproductive coercion fits imperfectly, if at all, within our existing laws designed to combat domestic violence …
Increasing Victimization Through Fetal Abuse Redefinition, Margaret Kelly
Increasing Victimization Through Fetal Abuse Redefinition, Margaret Kelly
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Financial Freedom: Women, Money, And Domestic Abuse, Dana Harrington Conner
Financial Freedom: Women, Money, And Domestic Abuse, Dana Harrington Conner
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
The Collateral Consequences Of Masculinizing Violence, Jamie R. Abrams
The Collateral Consequences Of Masculinizing Violence, Jamie R. Abrams
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
Before an enraged gunman fired thirty-six deadly shots into an exercise class filled with women, on August 4, 2009, in Pennsylvania, he blogged that his killing spree was the result of his failure to meet society’s expectations of him as a man. This violent act tragically affirms that hegemonic masculinity — a dominant form of masculinity whereby some types of men have power over women and over some other men — can directly cause violence against women and reveals both an underlying connection between masculinities scholarship and feminist scholarship and the value in exploring that linkage further in both theory …
The Intersection Between Domestic Violence And The Child Welfare System: The Role Courts Can Play In The Protection Of Battered Mothers And Their Children, Linda Quigley
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
No abstract provided.