FEMINIST CONNECTIONS AND THE MOVEMENT AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: BEYOND CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM

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This essay argues, on the one hand, that over the past decade or more, the individual and collective actions of women resisting domestic violence have helped to alter not only the ways in which women are labelled deviant but also the ways to which their victimization is responded. On the other hand, it argues that these personal and political challenges to the established order have been accommodated by legal and criminal justice reforms which have left the fundamental social, political, and economic relations associated with domestic violence unaddressed. The fundamental issue raised by this essay is: How should opponents of domestic violence devote their future energies in the ongoing struggles of social change and public policy formation?