1st Edition

Legal Responses to Domestic Violence

By Mandy Burton Copyright 2008
    164 Pages
    by Routledge-Cavendish

    168 Pages
    by Routledge-Cavendish

    This book aims to examine legal responses to domestic violence in a holistic way. In England and Wales, as in other jurisdictions, much attention has been paid to the criminal justice response to domestic violence. The response of the civil justice system has not been ignored, but has been somewhat marginalized. Legal Responses to Domestic Violence takes a systematic approach to examining legal responses, encompassing the full range of decision makers within the legal system to analyze developments in substantive law and practice, in particular the movement towards an integrated justice approach.

    1. The Role of Law  2. The Evolving Civil Law  3. Using the Civil Law  4. Where Next for Civil Law?: The Evolving Criminal Law  4. Using the Criminal Law  5. Where next for Criminal Law?

    Biography

    Mandy Burton is currently a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Leicester. She has carried out numerous empirical studies for UK Government departments, including a study of the effectiveness of the civil remedies for domestic violence under the Family Law Act 1996 and two studies of specialist domestic violence courts.

    To the practitioner this book is a vehicle for empathetic feeling toward the victim client; to the academic this book combines insightful opinion alongside useful coverage of both the law and its practical effect. - Byron James, Family Law Journal, 2008