Feminist Advocacy : Gendered Organizations in Community-Based Responses to Domestic Violence

Feminist Advocacy: Gendered Organizations in Community-Based Responses to Domestic Violence examines victim advocacy through a gendered organization's perspective. This monograph draws from in-depth interviews with twenty-six domestic violence victim advocates to examine their experiences with gendered policies and practices in the justice system, child protective services, and shelters. Andrea J. Nichols explores justice system interventions related to pro-arrest, dual arrest, no-drop prosecution, protective orders, and the actions of police and judges. In addition, she examines policies and practices related to child protective services that negatively affect battered women, such as charges for failure to protect and lost custody. Nichols also explores the most contentiously debated shelter policies, including curfew, confidentiality, substance abuse, entrance requirements, admitting adolescent boys, and mandatory classes. Drawing from advocates' narratives of their experiences, Feminist Advocacy bears significant implications for policy and practice in community-based responses to domestic violence. This book will prove especially valuable to anyone who studies or works in the fields of social work, human services, criminal justice, or criminology, including advocates, practitioners, students, academic researchers, and those interested in intimate partner violence. Book jacket This book examines victim advocacy through a gendered organizations perspective. The monograph draws from in-depth interviews with twenty-six domestic violence victim advocates to examine their experiences with gendered policies and practices in the justice system, child protective services, and shelters. Explicitly, justice system interventions related to pro-arrest, dual arrest, no-drop prosecution, protective orders, and the actions of police and judges are explored. In addition, policies and practices related to child protective services that negatively affect battered women, such as charges for failure to protect and lost custody are examined. The most contentiously debated shelter policies are explored as well, including curfew, confidentiality, substance abuse, entrance requirements, admitting adolescent boys and mandatory classes Feminist Advocacy: Gendered Organizations in Community Based Responses to Domestic Violence examines feminist advocacy in domestic violence organizations including shelters, the justice system, and child protective services. This book provides an analysis of advocacy responses to shelter rules, protective orders, no-drop prosecution, mandatory arrest, dual arrest, failure to protect, and lost custody. Feminist Advocacy is directed toward social work, human services, or criminology students, advocates and practitioners, academic researchers, and those interested in intimate partner violence