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emailThursday, April 12, 2012
Broken Homes and Broken Promises: Making the Case of Comprehensive Domestic Violence Policy Reform
Daniel Manne, WAPPP Fellow
The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) declared that all
women in the U.S. had the right to be free from gender-motivated
violence and provided a remedy for victims. In 2000, the Supreme
Court struck down that remedy as unconstitutional. The right
guaranteed in VAWA remains an unfulfilled promise to millions of
American women who will be victims of domestic violence in their
lifetimes. Despite years of effort by feminist activists, the state
is still largely uncommitted to combating the problem of intimate
partner abuse. This presentation will make the case that both the
high rate of incidence and the severe effects of violence make
intimate partner abuse a serious civil rights concern. It will
further argue that incremental improvements to the criminal justice
system have been, and will continue to be, insufficient to
effectively deal with the problem because the system is entirely
reactive. The solution lies in a new proactive and flexible system
that anticipates the cycles and psychology of abuse, focuses on
helping victims rather than punishing offenders, recognizes that
some batterers can be reformed and others cannot, and is
fundamentally committed to eliminating domestic violence homicide.
- Location:WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, T-102
- Date:Thursday, April 12, 2012
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Time:11:40 AM
