RT Article
T1 Gender neutrality and the Prevention and Treatment of Violence – A Dutch Perspective
JF Women & criminal justice
VO 31
IS 1
SP 40
OP 52
A1 Althoff, Martina 1962-
A2 Slotboom, Maria 1966-
A2 Janssen, Janine 1968-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1748354167
AB One of the important themes in debating violence in the international political fora is ‘violence against women’, which is explicitly emphasized by The Convention of Istanbul. The Netherlands have ratified this convention but partially due to Dutch influence it was stated that although women do suffer more from violence, that does not mean that there are no male victims of violence and that the state and policy makers should provide for them too. As a consequence, Dutch government aims at ‘gender neutrality’ in their approaches to prevent and treat violence. This approach has dealt with some criticism, some wonder nowadays whether this focus on ‘gender neutrality’ has negative consequences for addressing the hardship that women have to deal with. In our contribution we will try to answer the previous question by looking into three examples: domestic violence, honour-related violence, and prostitution & human trafficking policy, all in the Netherlands.
K1 Violence against women
K1 Dutch policy on combatting violence
K1 prostitution and human trafficking
K1 honour-related violence
K1 domestic violence
DO 10.1080/08974454.2019.1661934