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Record Nr.

UNISA996509968703316

Autore

Walby Sylvia

Titolo

The concept and measurement of violence against women and men / / Sylvia Walby [and eleven others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, : Policy Press, 2017

Bristol, England ; ; Chicago, Illinois : , : Policy Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4473-3265-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 pages)

Collana

Policy Press Shorts Policy & Practice

Disciplina

303.6

Soggetti

Violence - Research - Methodology

Gender mainstreaming - Research - Methodology

Family violence - Research - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Glossary -- Notes on authors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Measuring Violence to End Violence -- Legal and Policy Developments -- Conceptualising Violence and Gender -- Different Forms of Violence -- Collecting Data -- Coordination -- A New Measurement Framework and Its Indicators -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The extent of violence against women is currently hidden. How should violence be measured?  How should research and new ways of thinking about violence improve its measurement? Could improved measurement change policy? The book is a guide to how the measurement of violence can be best achieved. It shows how to make femicide, rape, domestic violence, and FGM visible in official statistics.  It offers practical guidance on definitions, indicators and coordination mechanisms. It reflects on theoretical debates on ‘what is gender’, ‘what is violence’, and ‘the concept of coercive control’. and introduces the concept of ‘gender saturated context’.  Analysing the socially constructed nature of statistics and the links between knowledge and power, it sets new standards and guidelines to influence the measurement of violence in



the coming decades.