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Housing and Domestic Abuse: Policy into Practice book cover

1st Edition

Housing and Domestic Abuse Policy into Practice

By Yoric Irving-Clarke, Kelly Henderson Copyright 2021
198 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Housing and Domestic Abuse provides an analysis of how housing policy has been historically utilised in responding to domestic abuse. The authors trace the history of policy from the feminist roots of the refuge movement, to the use of ‘anti-social behaviour’ legislation to address abuse, and the current proposals being considered. The UK government and devolved governments in Scotland and... Read more

Section 1: Putting the Book in Context

1. Introduction

2. Implementation and Isomorphism

Section 2: The History of Housing and Domestic Abuse Policy in the UK

3. Feminism and the Early Refuges

4. The Conservatives, New Labour and Domestic Abuse Policy

5. Current Proposals – A Return to Specialism?

Section 3: Domestic Abuse and Wider Housing Policy Issues

6. (Social) Housing Policy and Domestic Abuse

7.　Housing Policy – Wider Contexts

8.　Scotland and Wales – the (Dis) United Kingdom

9.　 The Impact of Housing Providers on Women Experiencing Abuse

Section 4: Sector Responses

10.　Sector Responses

Biography

Yoric Irving-Clarke is a policy and practice officer for the Chartered Institute of Housing and author of Supported Housing: Past, present and future (2019).

Kelly Henderson is Co-founder of the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) and Honorary Fellow at Durham University.

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