Queer(y)Ing Civil Law Responses to Domestic and Family Violence

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-59609-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Queering Criminology and Criminal Justice

Queer(y)ing Civil Law Responses to Domestic and Family Violence offers unique, in-depth insights into the experiences of LGBTQ+ victim-survivors who have engaged with civil protection order systems.

Drawing on data from an Australian study following the experiences of LGBTQ+ victim-survivors of domestic and family violence who engaged with Victoria’s civil protection order system, this book adopts a feminist, queer and trans abolitionist perspective to challenge the assumption that the best response to LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence is a legal one. Problematising responses that fundamentally require increased investment in policing, courts and prisons despite the risks this poses to marginalised individuals and communities, this book centres queer criminology as a framework through which we can situate and critique the rigid victim/perpetrator binaries that are so characteristic of legal responses to violence. This same criminological framework also provides the tools and knowledge needed to envision an alternative, community-oriented response to harm—within and beyond queer communities. In this way, the book presents queer criminology not only as a way of understanding LGBTQ+ experiences, but also as a means for analysing the broader shortcomings of a system that more often exacerbates risk of harm than minimises it.

Queer(y)ing Civil Law Responses to Domestic and Family Violence will be useful for students and scholars of LGBTQ+ violence, as well as a valuable resource for policy makers, legal and specialist practitioners and advocates considering how best to respond to LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reeves, Ellen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction

2 Researching LGBTQ+ victim-survivors’ experiences with the civil protection order system

3 Seeking safety and justice: Queer pathways to the civil protection order system

4 Gatekeeping protection: Policing LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence

5 Binaried risk: Pathways from victim-survivor to perpetrator

6 Just agree to it: LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence in the courtroom

7 (Un)safety and wellbeing following engagement with the civil protection order system

8 (Re)centring abolition in queer criminology: Responding to LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence

9 Appendix

Über Autor(innen)

Ellen Reeves is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her research considers the unintended consequences of domestic and family violence law reform, with a particular focus on the ‘misidentification’ of victim-survivors as predominant aggressors.