Gender justice advocates and the making of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018

• Autores: Marsha Scott, Emma Rich
• Localización: The Routledge International Handbook of Domestic Violence and Abuse / John Devaney (ed. lit.), Caroline Bradbury Jones (ed. lit.), Rebecca J. Macy (ed. lit.), Carolina Överlien (ed. lit.), Stephanie Holt (ed. lit.), 2021, ISBN 9780367686253, pág. 590
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In February 2018, the Scottish Parliament passed the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill 2018, called the “new gold standard” for domestic abuse law. The new law, developed with “unprecedented” involvement of survivors and organisations devoted to improving women’s and children’s rights, broke new ground by reflecting the experiences of women and children who were living with domestic abuse.The new law defined criminal behaviour by the actions of the abuser rather than the impact on the victim and imposed an aggravation to reflect Scotland’s new understanding of the harm that domestic abusers do to their children. The feminist political and social discourse that produced the Act rested on a foundation of decades of feminist activism and the Women’s Aid movement in Scotland. The development and passage of the new law offers a template for progressive feminist domestic abuse policy specifically and violence against women policy more generally.