Kaitlin Sidorsky (Coastal Carolina University), Wendy J. Schiller (Rhode Island Brown University)

Inequality Across State Lines

How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Every year, one in four women will be victims of domestic violence in the United States. This book shows how and why U.S. domestic violence politics and policies have failed to keep them safe at all income levels, and across racial and ethnic lines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781009279161
• ISBN-10: 1009279165
• Artikelnr.: 65893019

Autorenporträt

Kaitlin N. Sidorsky is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Coastal Carolina University. She is the author of All Roads Lead to Power: Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for US Women (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Domestic violence and gender inequality
2. Federal action on domestic violence
3. Policymaking in the states: domestic violence statutes
4. Explaining and predicting the adoption of state domestic violence gun laws
5. The view from the courtroom: inconsistent implementation of domestic violence policy at the local level
6. The Costs of inequality in domestic violence policies
7. Pathways for improving women's human security
References
Appendices
Index.