Challenging violence against women : the Canadian experience
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Challenging violence against women : the Canadian experience
Policy Press, 2001
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-71)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
There is widespread recognition among policy makers, professionals and activists in Britain that Canadian work on violence against women has been in the vanguard. However, as Canadian research can be difficult to access from the UK, many in this country are vague about the details.
This report brings together 'state-of-the-art' accounts of Canadian approaches to violence against women and discusses them in the context of current UK policy.
In particular, it looks at:
refuges and women's services and campaigns;
government responses and inter-agency approaches to challenging violence against women;
law enforcement and legal reform;
work with children and young people;
the connection between research, activism and practice.
Challenging violence against women is required reading for policy makers in government, statutory and voluntary sector agencies, for activists in the women's movement against rape, sexual assault and domestic violence, and for academics in Canadian studies, women's studies, criminology and the social sciences.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction: UK and Canadian approaches to violence against women, and the activist movement
- Getting together to make things happen: multi-agency and federal responses
- Setting the agenda in the 1990s: the contribution of government and research to social change
- Innovation and law reform in the criminal and civil justice systems
- Children's and schools programmes
- Conclusion and summary.
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