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    Violence against women and the law / David L. Richards and Jillienne Haglund.

    By: Richards, David L. (College teacher) [author.]Contributor(s): Haglund, Jillienne [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: International studies intensives: Publisher: Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, [2015]Description: xiv, 190 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781612051475 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1612051472 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Women -- Crimes against -- Law and legislation | Women -- Crimes against | Frau | Gewalt | Verbrechensopfer | Vergewaltigung | Häusliche Gewalt | Sexuelle Belästigung | RechtsvergleichDDC classification: 345/.025082 LOC classification: K5191.W65 | R53 2015
    Contents:
    Forms of violence against women -- Political, economic, and social determinants of domestic gender-based-violence policy -- Legal frameworks -- Creating indicators of legal guarantees -- Discoveries from our data.
    Summary: This book examines the strength of laws addressing four types of violence against women--rape, marital rape, domestic violence, and sexual harassment--in 196 countries from 2007 to 2010. It analyzes why these laws exist in some places and not others, and why they are stronger or weaker in places where they do exist. The authors have compiled original data that allow them to test various hypotheses related to whether international law drives the enactment of domestic legal protections. They also examine the ways in which these legal protections are related to economic, political, and social institutions, and how transnational society affects the presence and strength of these laws. The original data produced for this book make a major contribution to comparisons and analyses of gender violence and law worldwide. -- Publisher description.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-177) and index.

    Forms of violence against women -- Political, economic, and social determinants of domestic gender-based-violence policy -- Legal frameworks -- Creating indicators of legal guarantees -- Discoveries from our data.

    This book examines the strength of laws addressing four types of violence against women--rape, marital rape, domestic violence, and sexual harassment--in 196 countries from 2007 to 2010. It analyzes why these laws exist in some places and not others, and why they are stronger or weaker in places where they do exist. The authors have compiled original data that allow them to test various hypotheses related to whether international law drives the enactment of domestic legal protections. They also examine the ways in which these legal protections are related to economic, political, and social institutions, and how transnational society affects the presence and strength of these laws. The original data produced for this book make a major contribution to comparisons and analyses of gender violence and law worldwide. -- Publisher description.

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