Domestic Violence as State Crime: A Feminist Framework for Challenge and Change

Domestic Violence as State Crime challenges the traditional understanding of domestic violence and argues that it constitutes a patriarchal state crime. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of state complicity in domestic violence, drawing on data from comparable liberal-democratic contexts. It proposes an overarching feminist typological theory of domestic violence as state crime and suggests ways to address it through a more holistic and transformative approach.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 204 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Domestic Violence as State Crime presents a thought-provoking challenge to our understanding and response to domestic violence. Anchored in a radical feminist perspective, this book argues that domestic violence against women constitutes a patriarchal state crime. By examining the international, collective, structural, and institutional dimensions of this harm, the author outlines a spectrum of state complicity, ranging from passive bystander to active producer, participant, and perpetrator.

The comprehensive analysis in this book draws on data from comparable liberal-democratic contexts, including Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, to demonstrate how domestic violence state criminality operates in practice, even in the present and in supposedly progressive contexts. This analysis provides valuable insights into the resilience of this epidemic-scale crime to various contemporary interventions.

Drawing its concepts together, the book proposes an overarching feminist typological theory of domestic violence as state crime. It also explores how domestic violence can be addressed if we confront its state crime dimensions and adopt a more holistic and transformative approach to remedy, redress, prevention, and justice.

Domestic Violence as State Crime is an accessible and compelling read, offering an innovative scholarly and activist contribution to the study of violence against women, feminism, criminology, and the broader critical study of law, politics, and society. It will appeal to anyone interested in rethinking domestic violence and the state.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367676919