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Government disregards welfare of vulnerable women
Charities have warned that the widespread closure of women's refuges will have devastating consequences for women who are victims of domestic violence....
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What's this got to do with violence against women?
My current mantra when training professionals in responding to domestic and sexual violence is ‘if you think a client is ‘difficult’, ‘hostile’ or to use the standard...
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A life of its own
Helen wrote about the Justice Matters for Women Event in a previous blog post and mentioned that this event was...
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Third of EU women experience violence, new report claims
A report from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) presents findings from the world’s biggest-ever survey on violence against women, revealing the extent of abuse suffered by women at home, work, in public and online. As well as demonstrating the wide prevalence of violence...
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Taking a downsizing agenda for women forward: The challenges
Previous posts in this series have identified various limitations of the criminal justice system for women in keeping with the Centre’s analysis that:
- Current responses to ...
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Is Lady Justice blind or just blinkered?
Most people will be familiar with ‘Lady Justice’ – a statue or picture of a woman often blindfolded, holding a set of scales. Lady Justice is intended to represent objectivity...
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Addressing violence against women beyond criminal justice
What would you do if he hit you?
Asked the midwife at an antenatal check up. I won’t go into what I said exactly, but the midwife picked up on what I didn’t say...
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Punishing women and criminal justice failure
'Taking the most hurt people out of society and punishing them in order to teach them how to live within society is, at best, futile. Whatever else a prisoner knows, she knows
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Criminal justice and reducing the harms women face - lifting the lid on Pandora’s box
Prime Minister David Cameron was recently questioned by the House of Common’s Liaison Committee on the...
Justice Matters for Women
What is Justice Matters for Women about?
Criminal justice fails women.
Current responses to criminalised women are seriously flawed and harmful to women. Prioritising the criminal justice system in our response to violence against women has undermined the development of more effective ways to address the harms women face.
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Ending violence against women - what role for criminal justice?
Rebecca Roberts at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies writes about the parallels between violence against women and criminal justice punishment.
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Is criminal justice a form of violence against women?
Today is the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The purpose of the day is to combat and raise awareness of violence against women.
The...