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This is the first quantitative study to examine Canada’s only Integrated Domestic Violence Court. The methodology used a quasi-experimental design with parallel groups with baseline equivalence. Results demonstrate that when support services are provided to victims of domestic violence during family separation, children benefit from greater involvement with both parents. There was more compliance with child support in the integrated court than the comparison group and compliance in custody and access were two variables that predicted the type of final custody orders. There were fewer judges involved in the IDVC court than comparison group; however, there were no differences in the number of court appearances between groups. The IDVC demonstrates a promising intervention to address domestic violence that involves both criminal and family law courts. Future research is needed to explore the views of children, victims and offenders about their experiences with the IDVC.

Locking up men who beat their partners sounds like a tremendous improvement over the days when men could hit women with impunity and women fearing for their lives could expect no help from authorities. But does our system of requiring the arrest, prosecution, and incarceration of abusers lessen domestic violence or help battered women? In this already controversial but vitally important book, we learn that the criminal justice system may actually be making the problem of domestic violence worse. Looking honestly at uncomfortable facts, Linda Mills makes the case for a complete overhaul and presents a promising alternative. The evidence turns up some surprising facts about the complexities of intimate abuse, facts that run against mainstream assumptions: The current system robs battered women of what power they do hold. Perhaps as many as half of women in abusive relationships stay in them for strong cultural, economic, religious, or emotional reasons. Jailing their partners often makes their situations worse. Women are at least as physically violent and emotionally aggressive as are men toward women, and women's aggression is often central to the dynamic of intimate abuse. Informed by compelling evidence, personal experience, and what abused women themselves say about their needs, Mills proposes no less than a fundamentally new system. Addressing the real dynamics of intimate abuse and incorporating proven methods of restorative justice, Mills's approach focuses on healing and transformation rather than shame or punishment. Already the subject of heated controversy, Insult to Injury offers a desperately needed and powerful means for using what we know to reduce violence in our homes.

Substance abuse commonly co-occurs with intimate partner violence among both perpetrators and survivors. Specialized courts that focus on intimate partner violence provide a unique opportunity to address both problems simultaneously, but research has yet to identify whether this happens. In this qualitative study of a domestic violence court in a large midwestern metropolitan area, key informants were interviewed to understand how the Court treats substance abuse. Results indicate that substance abuse typically is not identified among perpetrators or survivors going through the Court unless it is mentioned in a police report. Barriers to such identification are the organization of the Court, bounded definition of actors’ roles in the Court, limited resources, and negative attitudes towards survivors. These results suggest that specialized courts that attend to only one problem may overlook the possibility of addressing issues that commonly co-occur.

A wide variety of problem-solving courts have been developed in the United States over the past two decades and are now being adopted in countries around the world. These innovative courts--including drug courts, community courts, domestic violence courts, and mental health courts--do not simply adjudicate offenders. Rather, they attempt to solve the problems underlying such criminal behaviors as petty theft, prostitution, and drug offenses.Legal Accents, Legal Borrowingis a study of the international problem-solving court movement and the first comparative analysis of the development of these courts in the United States and the other countries where the movement is most advanced: England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and Australia. Looking at the various ways in which problem-solving courts have been taken up in these countries, James Nolan finds that while importers often see themselves as adapting the American courts to suit local conditions, they may actually be taking in more aspects of American law and culture than they realize or desire. In the countries that adopt them, problem-solving courts may in fact fundamentally challenge traditional ideas about justice. Based on ethnographic research in all six countries, the book examines these cases of legal borrowing for what they reveal about legal and cultural differences, the inextricable tie between law and culture, the processes of globalization, the unique but contested global role of the United States, and the changing face of law and justice around the world.

Like many other patriarchal societies, Australia is marked by entrenched patterns of gendered violence. Central to the New South Wales legislative reforms that commenced in the 1980s with the aim of redressing this was the introduction of civil protection orders that gave police the authority to respond to domestic violence incidents through protection and/or prosecution proceedings. In 2005, following other jurisdictions, the New South Wales Government piloted the integrated Domestic Violence Intervention Court Model (DVICM). The selection of the inland rural town of Wagga Wagga and the metropolitan Campbelltown site provided the opportunity to conduct research comparing the commencement, processes, outcomes and effectiveness of civil and criminal justice interventions across major city and rural locations, through time and for different cultural groups, the focus of this article.

O artigo propõe uma reflexão acerca do critério de decisão institucional para a implementação da política pública de gênero, prevista na Lei 11.340/2006, tendo como vetor de análise a potencialidade do uso do serviço, mensurável a partir das taxas de assassinato de mulheres, como ápice da violência doméstica e familiar contra a mulher. Dentre as políticas públicas previstas em tal legislação, serão consideradas a Delegacia Especializada da Mulher e o Juizado Especial de Violência Doméstica e Familiar contra a Mulher, no recorte geográfico de Piraquara - Paraná, dado o elevado número de mortes de mulheres. Vale-se de análise documental e revisão bibliográfica para apresentar (i) a política pública de gênero, a partir de sua normatização, e (ii) as taxas de assassinato de mulheres. A inexistência de tal política pública em referido locus indica a ruptura entre discurso institucional e sua prática, como também, a ausência de correlação entre potencialidade do uso do serviço e sua efetiva disponibilidade.

Research Summary: The present study examined the effectiveness of a localized domestic violence court in Lexington County, South Carolina. An interrupted time series analysis indicated that domestic violence arrests increased significantly after the court was established. Recidivism rates of 189 defendants arrested for domestic violence before the implementation of the domestic violence court were compared with 197 defendants arrested after the court's implementation. Results indicate significantly lower rates of rearrests among defendants processed through the domestic violence court. Policy Implications: The results from this study suggest that systematic localized court interventions aimed at domestic violence defendants can be effective at enhancing enforcement and improving victim safety.

Cox agreed to the counseling during a brief hearing in Cobb County Domestic Violence Court, where the charges were put on hold for 90 days pending the outcome of the counseling. Cox, 53, was charged with simple battery May 7 after his wife called police to their home near Atlanta. Pamela Cox told police her husband hit her, but retracted the statement the next day.

Ovaj se rad bavi temom provođenja učinkovite istrage i kaznenog progona u kaznenim predmetima zbog seksualnog nasilja nad djecom i obiteljskog nasilja nad ženama i djecom s aspekta čl. 3. Europske konvencije za zaštitu ljudskih prava i temeljnih sloboda (u daljnjem tekstu: Konvencija), koji zabranjuje mučenje, nečovječno ili ponižavajuće postupanje, te čl. 8. Konvencije koji jamči pravo na privatan i obiteljski život. Prikazane su i analizirane i neke od izabranih odluka koje se odnose na Hrvatsku, u kojima je Europski sud za ljudska prava (u daljnjem tekstu: ESLJP, Sud) raspravljao o učinkovitosti kaznene istrage i progonau predmetima obiteljskog nasilja i seksualnog zlostavljanja djece, kao i njihov utjecaj na domaću ustavnosudsku praksu i zakonodavstvo. Autorica također daje analizu postojećih zakonodavnih rješenja i sredstava pravne zaštite u našem nacionalnom zakonodavstvu te prikaz i analizu recentne odluke Ustavnog suda Republike Hrvatske (u daljnjem tekstu: Ustavni sud) u predmetu U-IIIBi-5910/2021 od 12. travnja 2022., u kojem je Ustavni sud zaključio da je trajanje sudskog postupka u kojem su mllj. podnositelji imali položaj žrtve seksualnog nasilja, od šest i pol godina od dana podnošenja kaznene prijave, nespojiv s postupovnom obvezom države iz čl. 8. Konvencije i čl. 35. Ustava Republike Hrvatske. U radu se nastoji prikazati da, unatoč tome što Republika Hrvatska načelno imaodgovarajući pravni i regulatorni okvir za zaštitu djece kao žrtava seksualnog nasilja te žena i djece kao žrtava obiteljskog nasilja, činjenica je da i dalje postoje brojni problemi u provedbi tih instrumenata u praksi, koje je potrebno sustavno rješavati. This paper examines the subject of effective investigation and prosecution in criminal cases of sexual violence against children and domestic violence against women and children from the aspect of Arts 3 and 8 of the Convention. The paper presents and analyses some of the selected decisions in which the European Court of Human Rights discussed the effectiveness of criminal investigation and prosecution in cases of domestic violence and sexual abuse of children and the impact of those court decisions on the Croatian legal system. The special review refers to the recent decision of the Constitutional Court in case number U-IIIBi-5910/2021 which was rendered on 12 April 2021. In that decision, the Constitutional Court concluded that the court proceedings that had lasted more than six and a half years, in which the victims of sexual violence were children, were excessive in duration which was incompatible with the procedural obligations of the State under Article 8 of the Convention and Article 35 of the Constitution of the Republic Croatia. The paper attempts to show that even today, although Croatia has an adequate legal and regulatory framework for the protection of children and women as victims of domestic and sexual violence, there are still numerous problems in the implementation of these instruments in practice.

This volume examines sentencing hearings in criminal court and the presentation of victim impact statements, as well as child protection cases in juvenile court and the recommendations of guardians ad litem (GALS). Through interviews, observations, and textual analysis, all deeply grounded in an innovative court watch program, the authors illuminate the most effective persuasive practices of victim advocates and GALS as they help protect the rights and needs of victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse. Mary Lay Schuster and Amy D. Propen offer nuanced interpretations of these strategies in the courtroom setting and provide an understanding of how to develop successful advocacy for vulnerable parties in the legal arena.