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Prosecuting Domestic Violence: A Philosophical Analysis

Michelle Madden Dempsey

ISBN13: 9780199562169
Published: March 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
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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.

  • Sets prosecutorial discrection into a theoretical framework, providing an original point of reference for philosophical investigation of prosecution.
  • Employs tools of analytic jurisprudence to domestic violence prosecutions, which clarifies terms of the 'victimless' prosecution debates
  • Adopts a feminist approach to evaluating state action that aids understanding of how state action can be feminist, and when it ought to be
  • Provides analysis of concepts of patriachy and feminism that clarifies what it means to be a feminist
  • Examines discretion exercised by executive branch state actors and moves away from the traditional focus of judicial discrection in analytic jurisprudence

Subjects:
Criminal Law, Family Law, Jurisprudence
Contents:
PART I SOME PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
1. Introduction
2. Wrong Turns on the Way to an Answer
PART II A FRESH START
3. Prosecutors: What They Are and What They Do
4. Prosecutorial Action and Value
5. Reasons for Prosecutors
PART III CONSIDERING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
6. What Counts as Domestic Violence?
7. Patriarchy
8. Domestic-violence Prosecution: Justification and Effectiveness
9. Victims and Prosecutions
10. Conclusion

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