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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Patterns of violence in intimate relationships : a critical examination of legal responses : submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, School of Law, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand /

Buckingham, Judith. January 2006 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Canterbury, 2006. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-497). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Witchcraft and policing South Africa Police Service attitudes towards witchcraft and witchcraft-related crime in the Northern province /

Pelgrim, Riekje. January 2003 (has links)
Thesis (Master). / Title from PDF title screen (viewed July 28, 2009).
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Witchcraft and policing South Africa Police Service attitudes towards witchcraft and witchcraft-related crime in the Northern province /

Pelgrim, Riekje. January 2003 (has links)
Thesis (Master).
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Judicial discourses involving domestic violence and expert testimony

Hamilton, Melissa 28 August 2008 (has links)
Not available / text
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Toward a reconceptualization of battered women : appealing to partial agency

Panet-Raymond, Louise January 2003 (has links)
Despite growing awareness of the severity of domestic violence, the lives of battered women are too often misconstrued by the Canadian public and the judicial system. The author argues that stereotypes of victimized battered women emanating from the courts and feminist theory may both prevent women who kill their partner from making valid claims of self-defence and generally undermine women's fight against oppression. The author reviews the doctrine of the battered woman syndrome and its application in the context of self-defence to illustrate how the courts' treatment of the doctrine conveys a narrow and incomplete depiction of battered women. An alternative theoretical framework based on battered women's partial agency is proposed as a means to address feminist theory's simplified representation of battered women. Various law and policy reform initiatives in the criminal justice system are explored to assess how the law may validate and promote battered women's partial agency.
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Ambivalence and paradox: the battered woman's interactions with the law and other helping resources

Labe, Dana January 2001 (has links)
This thesis explores how the battered woman attachment to her abusive partner impacts on her interactions with the legal system and non-legal resources. This qualitative research project is based on in-depth interviews conducted with seven abused women who procured interdicts in terms of the Prevention of Family Violence Act 133 of 1993 to restrain their husbands from assaulting them. The research reviews the nature of abuse suffered by the participants, their psychological attachments to their husbands, and their patterns of help-seeking in relation to the law and non-legal resources. Two main theoretical frameworks, psychoanalysis and feminism inform this study. The study found that the participants retained unrealistic hopes that their husbands would reform and become loving, caring partners, and that they treated their husbands with care and sympathy despite their husbands’ often brutal behaviour towards them. The findings suggest that the women’s behaviour towards their husbands was the product of two reality distorting psychological defences, splitting and the moral defence which they used to preserve their attachments to their abusive partners. These defences intersected with rigid patriarchal prescriptions of femininity which dictate that women should be stoically caring towards their husbands, and should hold relationships together no matter what the cost to themselves. The participants interactions with the legal system and with non-legal sources of help were structured by their reliance on splitting and the moral defence, and by the dictates of patriarchal ideology. Whilst it is undoubtedly true that at one level the participants sought help to get protection from abuse, the study shows that their help-seeking was motivated by their conflicting desires to punish and reform their husbands. The participants sought help in ways which enabled them to strike a compromise between expressing their anger at their husbands, whilst simultaneously preserving their psychological attachments to them. The study concludes that the women’s interactions with the law and with other helping resource reflect their attempts to preserve their paradoxical attachments to their husbands, and to stabilise their own fragile sense of self and gender identity.
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Human propensity towards violence and the law enforcement community

Fields, Ronald M. 01 January 1989 (has links)
No description available.
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Toward a reconceptualization of battered women : appealing to partial agency

Panet-Raymond, Louise January 2003 (has links)
No description available.
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"We have left it in their hands" : a critical assessment of principles underlying legal and policy responses to aboriginal domestic violence ; a location study / Stephanie Therese Jarrett.

Jarrett, Stephanie Therese January 1997 (has links)
Bibliography: leaves 259-382. / xvii, 382 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Examines the capacity of Australian states, even those committed to upholding and extending the right to physical safety into different cultural contexts, to do so in the case of Aboriginal populations. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Depts. of Geography and Politics, 1998?
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Witchcraft and policing South Africa Police Service attitudes towards witchcraft and witchcraft-related crime in the Northern province /

Pelgrim, Riekje. January 2003 (has links)
Thesis (Master).

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