‘You wouldn’t want to get rid of criminal justice processes’: tensions involved with criminalising family abuse based on identities of gender and sexuality in England and Wales

In this article we engage with debates about the usefulness of the law in England and Wales in addressing family abuse perpetration drawing on qualitative empirical data. Initially, we provide our conceptual framework for making sense of family abuse as a form of ’honour’-based abuse, which starts w...

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Authors: Donovan, Catherine (Author) ; Gangoli, Geetanjali (Author) ; Gill, Aisha K. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2025
In: International journal of law, crime and justice
Year: 2025, Volume: 83, Pages: 1-12
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