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`SORRY LOVE': VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE HOME AND THE STATE

01 January 1991

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`SORRY LOVE': VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE HOME AND THE STATE
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JOURNAL ARTICLE , User Ref = 013722 , Acc Date = 27-Jan-89
S Maguire
Critical Social Policy, Autumn 1988 (23) pp34-45

Policies designed to improve community safety are of little
relevance to the victims of domestic violence who are attacked
in their own homes by the men they live with. This type of crime
is belittled by the term `domestic' and rarely studied by social
researchers. There is a widespread tendency to view it as a
pathological condition of particular women who somehow invite
violence from men who, because of their social or economic
circumstances, are unable to help themselves. The police, social
services and housing departments often fail to respond to wife
beating and may even make the situation worse by, for example,
taking children into care. Womens refuges can help in the short
term but are chronically short of money and unable to provide for
those many women unable to get access to separate housing for
themselves and their children. Victim support schemes are being
promoted as an alternative but these are viewed as a threat to
the development of services by women based on a radical analysis
of male violence. 26 notes and references.

battered wife, family life

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