This chapter looks at how violence against women is about control. Easteal explains that this control is exerted in a variety of ways in addition to physical battery. The chapter also describes the dynamics of abuse and its multi-faceted impact on the victims

This article explores the relationship between understandings of domestic violence and the child protection response drawing on material gathered in focus groups with workers who support mothers dealing with both domestic violence and child protection issues. The interviewees expressed concern...

While research on criminal sentencing has been an active field of inquiry for decades, social disparities in sentencing of domestic and non-domestic violent offenders remain understudied. Using court data on defendants persecuted in Russia in 2010-2013 enriched with information from verdict...