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Culture and family violence : fostering change through human rights law /

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This book describes the policies that are meant to protect families but repeatedly fail to protect individuals within those families. By exploring the cultural beliefs and laws that support the family unit as a safe haven, the author examines the violence that often exists where it is least expected...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levesque, Roger J. R.
Corporate Author: American Psychological Association
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, [2001]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Law and public policy.
Subjects:
Family violence > Law and legislation > United States.
Family violence > Law and legislation.
Culture and law.
Human rights.
Culture.
Domestic Violence > legislation & jurisprudence > United States.
Human Rights.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Family violence and human rights
  • Traditions and innovations in human rights law
  • part 1. Culture's role in family violence. Family violence and cultural life
  • Culturally rooted challenges to law reform
  • part 2. Human rights responses to cultural life and family violence. Why cultural life matters to human rights law
  • Reaching family violence through human rights law
  • part 3. Human rights law, culture, and family violence in the United States. Human rights law and U.S. law
  • Cultural life, family violence, and U.S. law
  • Reconceptualizing family violence, culture, and U.S. law.