(Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice) 1st Edition
by Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Editor), Sandra Walklate (Editor), Jude McCulloch (Editor), JaneMaree Maher (Editor)
This edited collection addresses
intimate partner violence, risk and security as global issues. Although
intimate partner violence, risk and security are intimately connected
they are rarely considered in tandem in the context of global security.
Yet, intimate partner violence causes widespread physical, sexual and/or
psychological harm. It is the most common type of violence against
women internationally and is estimated to affect 30 per cent of women
worldwide. Intimate partner violence has received significant attention
in recent years, animating political debate, policy and law reform as
well as scholarly attention.
In bringing together a range of
international experts, this edited collection challenges status quo
understandings of risk and questions how we can reposition the risk of
IPV, and particularly the risk of IPH, as a critical site of global and
national security. It brings together contributions from a range of
disciplines and international jurisdictions, including from Australia
and New Zealand, United Kingdom, Europe, United States, North America,
Brazil and South Africa.
The contributions here urge us to think
about perpetrators in more nuanced and sophisticated ways with chapters
pointing to the structural and social factors that facilitate and
sustain violence against women and IPV. Contributors point out that
states not only exacerbate the structural conditions producing the risks
of violence, but directly coerce and control women as both citizens and
non-citizens. States too should be understood as collaborators and
facilitators of intimate partner violence. Effective action against
intimate partner violence requires sustained responses at the global,
state and local levels to end gender inequality. Critical to this end
are environmental issues, poverty and the divisions, often along ‘race’
and ethnic lines, underpinning other dimensions of social and economic
inequality.