Domestic Violence as State Crime: A Feminist Framework for Challenge and Change [Paperback]

This book offers an innovative feminist criminological study of family violence and the role of the state, addressing the paucity of scholarly attention to the institutional, structural and state dimensions of male violence in the family and developing the original argument that family violence constitutes a state crime.

Evelyn Rose is an Honorary Fellow in Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

A major contribution to feminist criminology, Evelyn Roses book shifts the debate about domestic violence law and policy to an international plane. By implicating the structures, institutions and agencies of the state in a spectrum of harms to women and children separate from the original domestic violence victimization, she identifies a state crime of domestic violence susceptible to management by increments of justice and equity. A game-changer.