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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Domestic Violence Courts"”.
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“They don’t help you here” a relational ethnography of domestic violence court
Domestic violence courts are an important subset of specialty courts or problem-solving courts offering a victim-centered alternative to the traditional criminal court setting. Domestic violence courts attempt to bring together the combined expertise of court actors (judges, lawyers, advocates, and …
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Implementation in Reality: Magistrates and the Domestic Violence Act
… of their experiences in implementing the Domestic Violence Act 116 of 1998. The data has been gathered from in-depth interviews with 6 magistrates from different magisterial jurisdictions in the Western Cape. This study has uncovered many barriers to implementation of the Act, the greatest …
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Partnership and Power: Domestic Violence, the Women's Sector, and the Criminal Justice System
… organisations, and its impact on survivors of domestic violence. To examine this, the criminal justice initiatives of the charity Standing Together Against Domestic Violence were researched – Hammersmith and Westminster Specialist Domestic Violence Courts and the Impact Project in Hammersmith …
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Grassroots Governance: Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice Partnerships in an Immigrant City
… involved in the governance of gender violence in Toronto, Ontario. Along with examining the agencies operating on the outskirts of the law, I also observe the organizations that contract directly with the provincial government to counsel abusers prosecuted through the city’s …
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Evaluating the legal protection system for survivors of intimate partner violence using the Normalisation Process Theory: A Case study of MOSAIC
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most prevalent form of violence against women, both worldwide and in South Africa. Many studies have positioned South Africa as having one of the highest rates of both IPV prevalence and femicide. Correspondingly, intimate partners are responsible for most …