Mismatches and criminal justice policy: The case of GPS for domestic violence

Domestic and Family Violence: Criminal Justice Interventions

DOMESTIC violence is a crime. This has been the key policy statement driving government and community reforms for the past 30 years. Criminalisation responds to the critique of early feminists that the privacy of the family created a screen behind which some men brutalised women and children. Criminalisation seeks to introduce the standards and norms of non-violence in public places, and the me...

Domestic Violence and Restorative Justice: Advancing the Dialogue Domestic Violence and Restorative Justice: Advancing the Dialogue

Interest in domestic violence work has been growing for many years in the restorative justice movement, particularly on an academic level. Resources and discussions that connected restorative justice and domestic violence were very few five years ago, but that is changing. Publications such as the collection Restorative Justice and Family Violence (ed. by Strang and Braithwaite), the multi-year...

Intuitions of Justice: Implications for Criminal Law and Justice Policy

Recent social science research suggests that many if not most judgments about criminal liability and punishment for serious wrongdoing are intuitional rather than reasoned. Further, such intuitions of justice are nuanced and widely shared, even though they concern matters that seem quite complex and subjective. While people may debate the source of these intuitions, it seems clear that, whateve...

Does the Criminal Justice System Treat Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Offenders Leniently?

Violence prevention: criminal justice or public health?