Battered Women in the Courtroom
The Power of Judicial Responses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11095706 |
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| Authors | Saundra D Westervelt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 862 |
| Publication date | 2000-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Battered women in the courtroom: The Power of Judicial Responses, James Ptacek, 1999 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2654125 |
| OpenAlex | W1971268389 |
| Language | EN |
Recent laws have given women much-needed rights in seeking protection from abusive men, but judges still hold the authority to issue restraining orders or send batterers to jail. While most studies on state intervention for victims have focused on the role of police, Battered Women in the Courtroom looks at the lives of abused women. This investigation of women, violence, and the courts centers on encounters between women and judges in restraining order hearings in Massachusetts, one of the first states to offer new civil and criminal options to victims of abusive behavior. It also examines the feminist political movements that gave rise to current state laws and considers the effects of men's violence on women's daily lives. James Ptacek questions whether judges still respond to abused women with indifference or impatience, as they have in the past, or whether they now treat battering as a serious crime. He looks at the types of violence that women report to the courts, analyzes how judges exercise their authority in restraining order hearings, examines how they perceive their role in negotiations with women, and studies their impact on women's efforts to escape the social entrapment of violence. The author also considers class and racial dimensions of the issue by drawing on cases from both white and African American communities. Ptacek exposes many of the myths and dilemmas about the abuse of women while addressing the political, institutional, and socio-psychological aspects of women's experiences with the courts. He offers crucial insights into the power of judges to encourage or discourage women from claiming their rights under the law
Criminology · Political science · Power (physics · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Psychology
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Formal help‐seeking in intimate partner violence among Spanish‐born and immigrant women in Spain
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The mental health of crime victims
Stress, Trauma, and Wellbeing in the Legal System
Listening to battered women
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Public/Private language aggression against women
Procedural justice in contacts with the police
Anthropologies of Domestic Violence
Comparing culturally embedded frames of judicial dispassion
Why Do They Kill
Rights, Religion, and Community
The Role of Place and Sociodemographic Characteristics on the Issuance of Temporary Civil Protection Orders
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The Politics of Place
Risky subjects
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Before the killing
The Role of Social Movements in the Recognition of Gender Violence as a Violation of Human Rights
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Beyond apology
Coercive control
Judging in lower courts
Survivor-Defined Advocacy in the Civil Protection Order Process
Has Criminology Awakened From Its “Androcentric Slumber”
Separation/Divorce Sexual Assault
Protection Order Use Among Latina Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Combating Domestic Violence
Gender, power, and the performance of justice
Law and the Pragmatics of Inclusion
Vanishing Complainants
Spatial Govemmentality and the New Urban Social Order
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Mujeres maltratadas en los juzgados
Risky sexual behavior among women with protective orders against violent male partners
Victim Advocates’ Perceptions of Legal Work
Bringing in “The Ones Who Know Them”
Hidden Dramas of Masculinity
Domestic Violence and Social Justice
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Protective Orders in Rural and Urban Areas
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Missing Voices
Safety Conferencing
Race, Poverty, and the Crime-Centered Response to Domestic Violence
Long Journeys Toward Freedom
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Interpersonal Violence and Women With Disabilities
Battered Women’s Perceptions of Civil and Criminal Court Helpfulness
Abject Economics
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Asymptotic Justice
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Understanding Intimate Partner Violence
Coercive Control
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Risky Business
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Capturing racism
Performing Impartiality
The Forces of Conviction
The (Heterosexual) Regendering of a Modern State
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How Child Protection Workers Support or Further Victimize Battered Mothers
Civil Protection Orders and their Courtroom Context
Self-Projected Protection Order Violations across Contexts, History, and Emotion Regulation
Relationship Characteristics and Protective Orders Among a Diverse Sample of Women
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Intervening with Children Living with Domestic Violence
Judicial discourses on women's agency in violent relationships
Making the grade
Voices of women
When child abuse overlaps with domestic violence
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