Responding to domestic violence : emerging challenges for policy, practice and research in Europe / edited by Stephanie Holt, Carolina Øverlien and John Devaney.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book offers a critical overview of established and emerging manifestations of domestic violence across Europe.

It describes how countries within and outside the EU are responding to the problem in policy, practice and research. Eminent academics and professionals from a range of European countries share their findings from new groundbreaking victim surveys, and weigh up the legal, social and healthcare challenges. The issues addressed include:

- the cultural challenges of combating abuse forms most prevalent in migrant communities such as female genital mutilation and forced marriage;
- emerging problems such as child-to-parent violence, teenage relationship violence and digital intimate partner abuse; and
- barriers to help-seeking faced by marginalised victims such as LGBTQ and older people.

By showcasing the most effective responses formulated in Europe and exploring innovative ways to research and understand domestic violence, this book is a crucial resource for all those with responsibility for implementing social policy and good practice.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements (p. 8)
• Introduction (p. 9)
• Part 1 The Policy Framework for Responding to Domestic Violence in Europe
• 1 Domestic Violence - A Rights-based Response: Drawing on Results from the FRA's Violence Against Women Survey (p. 23)
• 2 Development, Coordination and Implementation of National Strategies for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Ireland: Lessons Learned and Unlearned (p. 42)
• Part 2 Children's Experiences of Domestic Violence
• 3 Mother-Child Relationship in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence (p. 61)
• 4 Voice, Agency, Power: A Framework for Young Survivors' Participation in National Domestic Abuse Policy-Making (p. 77)
• 5 Including Children and Adolescents in Domestic Violence Research: When Myths and Misconceptions Compromise Participation (p. 97)
• 6 Research on Teenage Intimate Partner Violence within a European Context: Findings from the Literature (p. 113)
• 7 Fear of Double Disclosure and Other Barriers to Help Seeking: An Intersectional Approach to Address the Needs of LGBT Teenagers Experiencing Teenage Relationship Abuse (p. 135)
• 8 Caring Dads: Safer Children: Using a Focus on Fathering to Respond to Domestic Violence (p. 152)
• Part 3 New Understandings on Domestic Abuse and Violence
• 9 Strength through Solidarity: Practitioners and Parents Resisting Child to Parent Violence and Abuse in Ireland (p. 173)
• 10 Digital Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse Among Youth: A Systematic Review of Associated Factors (p. 192)
• 11 Human Trafficking and Gender-based Violence: From Life and Limb to Hearts and Minds (p. 215)
• 12 Female Genital Mutilation: Findings from a Portuguese Prevalence Study (p. 231)
• 13 Forced Marriage in Europe: The Case of Belgium (p. 251)
• Part 4 Responding to Domestic Violence and Abuse
• 14 Models on Treatment of Intimate Partner Violence: Gender-Based and Trauma-Informed Work at Alternative to Violence in Norway (p. 269)
• 15 Healthcare Responses to Domestic Violence: Why and How? (p. 292)
• 16 Older Women's Experiences of Domestic Violence (p. 309)
• 17 Whose Movement is it Anyway? Reflections from the Field (p. 325)
• Concluding Remarks: Progressing the Debate on Domestic Violence in Europe (p. 341)
• Contributor Biographies (p. 348)
• Subject Index (p. 355)
• Author Index (p. 360)

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