1st Edition
Queer(y)ing Civil Law Responses to Domestic and Family Violence
1 Introduction
2 Researching LGBTQ+ victim-survivors’ experiences with the civil protection order system
3 Seeking safety and justice: Queer pathways to the civil protection order system
4 Gatekeeping protection: Policing LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence
5 Binaried risk: Pathways from victim-survivor to perpetrator
6 Just agree to it: LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence in the courtroom
7 (Un)safety and wellbeing following engagement with the civil protection order system
8 (Re)centring abolition in queer criminology: Responding to LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence
9 Appendix
Biography
Ellen Reeves is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her research considers the unintended consequences of domestic and family violence law reform, with a particular focus on the ‘misidentification’ of victim-survivors as predominant aggressors.






