Madden Dempsey, Michelle OK UK This book provides the first serious, sustained philosophical invesitgation of the criminal prosecution of domestic violence. It provides a theoretical framework for understanding ongoing debates regarding the criminal justice system's repsonse to domestic violence. <ul> <li>Sets prosecutorial discrection into a theoretical framework, providing an original point of reference for philosophical investigation of prosecution. <li>Employs tools of analytic jurisprudence to domestic violence prosecutions, which clarifies terms of the 'victimless' prosecution debates <li>Adopts a feminist approach to evaluating state action that aids understanding of how state action can be feminist, and when it ought to be <li>Provides analysis of concepts of patriachy and feminism that clarifies what it means to be a feminist <li> Examines discretion exercised by executive branch state actors and moves away from the traditional focus of judicial discrection in analytic jurisprudence </ul> Hardback 124679 0199562164 9780199562169 2009-12-19T00:17:42Z 2009-03-20T00:00:00Z prosecuting-domestic-violence-a-philosophical-analysis- 1 50.0 Oxford University Press 2008 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 Prosecuting Domestic Violence: A Philosophical Analysis