Global Feminist Networks on Domestic Violence

WOMEN, CRIME AND SOCIAL HARM This book is by and about women, the harms and crimes to which they are subjected as a result of global social processes and their efforts to take control of their own futures. It explores the criminogenic and damaging consequences of the policies of global fi nancial institutions and the effects of growing economic polarisation, both in pockets of the developed world and in the global south. Refl ecting on this evidence, the editors challenge existing criminological theory by expanding and elaborating a conception of social harm that encompasses this range of problems, and exposes where new solutions derived from criminological theory are necessary. A second theme addresses human rights from the standpoint of indigenous women, minority women and those seeking refuge. For most of these women a politics of human rights emerges as central to achieving legal and political equality and protection from individual violence. Women in the poorest countries, however, are sceptical as to the effi cacy of rights claims in the face of the depredations of international and global capital, and the social dislocation produced thereby. Nonetheless this is a hopeful book, emphasising the contribution which academic work can make, provided the methodology is appropriately gendered and suffi ciently sensitive to hear and learn from the all too often ‘glocalised’ other. But in the end there is no solution without politics. What continues to be special about women’s political practice is the connection between the groundedness of small groups and the fl uidity and fl exibility of regional and international networks: the effective politics of the global age. This book, then, is a new criminology for and by women, a book which cannot easily be read without an emotional response. Oñati International Series in Law and Society A SERIES PUBLISHED FOR THE OÑATI INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW General Editors Johannes Feest Judy Fudge Founding Editors William LF Felstiner Johannes Feest Board of General Editors Rosemary Hunter, University of Kent, United Kingdom Carlos Lugo, Hostos Law School, Puerto Rico David Nelken, Macerata University, Italy Jacek Kurczewski, Warsaw University, Poland Marie Claire Foblets, Leuven University, Belgium Roderick Macdonald, McGill University, Canada Titles in this Series Social Dynamics of Crime and Control: New Theories for a World in Transition edited by Susannah Karstedt and Kai Bussmann Criminal Policy in Transition edited by Andrew Rutherford and Penny Green Making Law for Families edited by Mavis Maclean Poverty and the Law edited by Peter Robson and Asbjørn Kjønstad Adapting Legal Cultures edited by Johannes Feest and David Nelken Rethinking Law Society and Governance: Foucault’s Bequest edited by Gary Wickham and George Pavlich Rules and Networks edited by Richard Appelbaum, Bill Felstiner and Volkmar Gessner Women in the World’s Legal Professions edited by Ulrike Schultz and Gisela Shaw Healing the Wounds edited by Marie-Claire Foblets and Trutz von Trotha Imaginary Boundaries of Justice edited by Ronnie Lippens Family Law and Family Values edited by Mavis Maclean Contemporary Issues in the Semiotics of Law edited by Anne Wagner, Tracey Summerfi eld and Farid Benavides Vanegas The Geography of Law: Landscapes, Identity and Regulation edited by Bill Taylor Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research edited by Reza Banakar and Max Travers Luhmann on Law and Politics edited by Michael King and Chris Thornhill Precarious Work, Women and the New Economy: The Challenge to Legal Norms edited by Judy Fudge and Rosemary Owens Juvenile Law Violators, Human Rights, and the Development of New Juvenile Justice Systems edited by Eric L Jensen and Jørgen Jepsen The Language Question in Europe and Diverse Societies: Political, Legal and Social Perspectives edited by Dario Castiglione and Chris Longman European Ways of Law: Towards A European Sociology of Law edited by Volkmar Gessner and David Nelken Crafting Transnational Policing: Police Capacity-Building and Global Policing Reform edited by Andrew Goldsmith and James Sheptycki Constitutional Politics in the Middle East: With special reference to Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan edited by Saïd Amir Arjomand Parenting after Partnering: Containing Confl ict after Separation edited by Mavis Maclean Responsible Business: Self-Governance and Law in Transnational Economic Transactions edited by Olaf Dilling, Martin Herberg and Gerd Winter Women, Crime and Social Harm Towards a Criminology for the Global Age Edited by Maureen Cain and Adrian Howe Oñati International Series in Law and Society A SERIES PUBLISHED FOR THE OÑATI INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW OXFORD AND PORTLAND OREGON 2008 Published in North America (US and Canada) by Hart Publishing c/o International Specialized Book Services 920 NE 58th Avenue, Suite 300 Portland, OR 97213-3786 USA Tel: +1 503 287 3093 or toll-free: (1) 800 944 6190 Fax: +1 503 280 8832 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.isbs.com © Oñati IISL 2008 All rights reserved. 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Hart Publishing Ltd, 16c Worcester Place, Oxford, OX1 2JW Telephone: +44 (0)1865 517530 Fax: +44 (0)1865 510710 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.hartpub.co.uk British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data Available ISBN: 978-1-84113-842-8 (hardback) ISBN: 978-1-84113-841-1 (paperback) Typeset by Compuscript, Shannon Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire Acknowledgements The editors wish to thank the Overseas Policy Committee of the British Academy for a grant under their International Collaborative Programme and also the International Institute of Sociology of Law (IISL), Oñati, Spain for their fi nancial and administrative support. In addition we are grateful to Mrs Alison Wagstaff for her tireless administrative work from the inception of the proposal to the completion of the manuscript for this book. Contents Acknowledgements ................................................................................. vii List of Contributors ................................................................................. xi Introduction: Women, Crime and Social Harm: Towards a Criminology for the Global Age ................................................................ 1 Maureen Cain and Adrian Howe Part I Position Papers 1. Criminogenesis and the War Against Drugs: (Another) Story of Absented Women ...........................................................................21 Maureen Cain 2. Violence Against Women: Rethinking the Local–Global Nexus in Feminist Strategy ............................................................................37 Adrian Howe 3. Globalisation, Human Security, Fundamentalism and Women’s Rights: Emergent Contradictions ........................................................ 57 Peggy Antrobus Part II Women on the Move 4. The Gender of Borderpanic: Women in Circuits of Security, State, Globalisation and New (and Old) Empire ................................69 Suvendrini Perera 5. Xeno-racism and the Demonisation of Refugees: A Gendered Perspective ......................................................................... 95 Liz Fekete 6. Dangerous Liaisons: Sex Work, Globalisation, Morality and the State in Contemporary India ............................................... 107 Brinda Bose Part III Human Rights − Limits and Possibilities 7. Global Rights, Local Harms: The Case of the Human Rights of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa .....................................................123 Esther Kisaakye x Contents 8. The Globalisation of International Human Rights Law, Aboriginal Women and the Practice of Aboriginal Customary Law ..................137 Megan Davis Part IV Rethinking Social Harm in a Global Context 9. Women and Natural Disasters: State Crime and Discourses in Vulnerability ..............................................................................161 Penny Green 10. Global Feminist Networks on Domestic Violence ..........................179 Rhoda Reddock 11. Local Contexts and Globalised Knowledge: What can International Criminal Victimisation Surveys Tell Us About Women’s Diverse Lives? .................................................................201 Sandra Walklate Index .....................................................................................................215 List of Contributors Peggy Antrobus has worked in the fi eld of women in development through a variety of government and NGO programmes in St Vincent, Jamaica and Barbados since 1974 when she was appointed as Advisor on Women’s Affairs to the government of Jamaica. She was a founding member of CAFRA (Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action) and of DAWN (Development Alternatives for Women in a New Era). Her most recent book is The Global Women’s Movement: Origins, Issues and Strategies (Zed Books, 2004). Brinda Bose works in the Department of English, Hindu College, Delhi University and is Co-Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi. She is currently a Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. Her recent publications include

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