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Takes a multi-disciplinary approach to exploring issues surrounding domestic violence. This text draws on contemporary research findings, policy developments, practice and case studies to explore directions in professional and voluntary sector responses to domestic violence

The contradiction in the use of patriarchal institutions of crime control to treat men's violence is illustrated using examples from England, Wales, & the US. Legal definitions of crime, with its emphasis on the public danger of women, shield the most frequent forms of male sexual violence: instances of gender subordination in the home. Rather than identifying male sexual violence as part of women's lives, conventional intervention models using the victimology paradigm treat violence as if it affects only a minority of women & hold them responsible. The policy on crime prevention rests on situational deterrence & moves the responsibility to the individual, instead of focusing on the reality that attackers of women are most likely to be familiar & familial men. L. Nguyen

A frequens remark wome make about experiences of phisical and sexual abuse is that 'nothing really happened'. We explore the meaning of this of events that did indeed happen is both reflected in, and reinforced by the criminal justice system. The implications of inclusion and exclussion in definitions of sexual violence are explored, especially in relation of cam paigns for legal reform.