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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About this Book -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction -- 1. Motivations and Objectives -- 2. Prosecuting Domestic Abuse at the CPS -- 3. Prosecutorial Discretion in Domestic Abuse Cases: Three Approaches -- (i) 'Automatic Drop': Discontinuing Cases on Victim Request -- (ii) 'No-Drop' Prosecution: Refusal to Discontinue Cases on Request -- (iii) Survivor-Defined Approach: Balancing Interests -- 4. The Gendered Nature of Domestic Abuse: Feminist Explanations -- 5. Neoliberalism: The 'Hegemonic Discourse of Our Times' -- 6. Criminal Versus Non-criminal Justice Responses -- 7. Methodology -- (i) Socio-Legal Research -- (ii) Qualitative Research and Thematic Analysis -- 8. Argument Overview and Chapter Outline -- References -- 2 Through the Lens of Feminism: State Responses to Domestic Abuse -- Introduction -- Part One -- (i) Domestic Abuse: Key Moments in Women's History -- Part Two -- (i) The Public/Private Divide: A Prelude to Patriarchy -- (ii) Confronting the Public/Private Divide: Patriarchy and Private Abuse -- (iii) Treating Domestic Abuse as a Public Issue -- (iv) Retrieving the Affirmative Potential of Privacy -- Part Three-The Legal Subject -- (i) Criminal Law as a Blunt Instrument: The Legal Subject and Its Failure to Describe Abused Women's Subjectivities -- (ii) Should Feminists Turn Away from Law? Criminal Law as a Site of Feminist Contestation -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Neoliberalism, the CPS and Tenacious Domestic Abuse Prosecutions -- Introduction -- Part One -- (i) Neoliberalism: Values, Strategies and Practices -- (ii) Neoliberal Valorisation of Freedom, Individualism and Responsibilisation -- (iii) Neoliberalism and Increased Criminalisation -- Part Two -- (i) The Political Independence of the Crown Prosecution Service? -- (ii) New Public Managerialism and CPS Targets.

Criminal prosecutions are key to the UK government's strategy to end Violence Against Women and Girls. Crown Prosecution Service policy affirms that domestic abuse offences are 'particularly serious' and prosecutors are reminded that it will be rare that the 'public interest' will not require pursuance of such offences through the criminal courts. The book argues that past inattentive treatment by state criminal justice agencies in relation to domestic abuse is now being self-consciously reversed by neoliberal governing agendas intent on denouncing crime and holding offenders to account. Seeking to unpick some of the discourses and perspectives that may have contributed to the current prosecutorial commitment, the book considers its emergence within the context of the women's movement, feminist scholarship and an era of neoliberalism. Three empirical chapters explore the prosecution commitment on the one hand, and the impact on women's lives on the other. The book's final substantive chapter offers a distinctive normative conceptual framework through which practitioners may think about women who have experienced domestic abuse that will have both intellectual appeal and practical application.

This handbook offers an up-to-date analysis of the African agenda for conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding; the challenges and opportunities facing the AU and RECs? efforts in achieving a Pax Africana; and the role of external actors including the United Nations (UN) and former colonial powers Britain and France, but also key (non-African) troop contributing countries in these efforts. Building on the late Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui?s concept of Pax Africana - Africans taking responsibility for the maintenance of peace and security on their own continent - the authors argue that the transformation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) into the AU in 2002, was a concrete step towards the realisation of an African-wrought vision of continental peace and prosperity, and has since witnessed the creation of a set of institutions - together known as the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) - for more robust conflict management