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Pursuing Accountability For Perpetrators Of Intimate Partner Violence: The Peril (And Utility?) Of Shame, A. Rachel Camp
Pursuing Accountability For Perpetrators Of Intimate Partner Violence: The Peril (And Utility?) Of Shame, A. Rachel Camp
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This Article explores the use of shame as an accountability intervention for perpetrators of intimate partner abuse, urging caution against its legitimization. Shaming interventions—those designed to publicly humiliate, denigrate, or embarrass perpetrators or other criminal wrongdoers—are justified by some as legitimate legal and extralegal interventions. Judges have sentenced perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence (“IPV”) to hold signs reading, “This is the face of domestic abuse,” among other publicly humiliating sentences. Culturally, society increasingly uses the Internet and social media to expose perpetrators to public shame for their wrongdoing. On their face, shaming interventions appear rational: perpetrators often belittle, humiliate, and …
`A Frivolous Prosecution': Allegations Of Physical And Sexual Abuse Of Domestic Servants And The Defence Of Colonial Patriarchy In Darwin And Singapore, 1880s-1930s, Claire K. Lowrie
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
This chapter explores the relationship between domestic service, violence, and colonial masculinities in the settler colony of Darwin and the exploitation colony of Singapore. The chapter analyses representations of assault and abuse of domestic servants by their British, white Australian, and Chinese masters in order to illuminate the ways in which violence could challenge or sustain colonial patriarchy. The central argument is that the ways in which violence towards Chinese and Aboriginal servants was either justified or ignored by the press, colonial officials, and ordinary colonists reflected an underlying agenda to protect the reputation of ruling-class men and the colonial …