This book presents a variety of socio-legal perspectives on issues of domestic violence and abuse. Focussing on contemporary research and practice developments in policing, law, statutory and voluntary sectors, the contributors to this volume cover a vast spectrum of initiatives and professional expertise concerned variably with protection, prevention and intervention priorities.The challenges of joined up thinking across these perspectives are apparent as the varied definitions, underpinning ideologies, terminologies, the profile of the victim/survivor's voice and identified gaps in service provision appearing in this book illustrate. As a reflection on the current economic climate, some of the perspectives presented necessarily compete rather than complement each other, an issue the volume highlights and addresses. Achieving a broader understanding of these issues and insights into a range of activity in this context is vital for both the practitionerand academic alike, whatever their perspective.

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Sarah Hilder is Senior Lecturer in Community and Criminal Justice at De Montfort University, UK. A former main grade and then senior Probation Officer, her research and published work has focused on victim safety, perpetrator interventions and inter agency cooperation in work with serious violent or sexual offenders.
Vanessa Bettinson is Senior Lecturer in Law at De Montfort University, UK. Her published work spans criminal law and justice, and human rights. Her research on domestic violence and abuse focuses in particular on criminal justice legal responses and developments and comparisons across jurisdictions.

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Introduction.- Part I. Protection.- Chapter 1. Domestic Violence: Applying a Human Rights Discourse; Ronagh McGuigg.- Chapter 2. A Fresh Approach to Policing Domestic Violence; Mandy Burton.- Chapter 3. Domestic Violence: The Limitations of a Legal Response; Charlotte Bishop.- Chapter 4. Surviving times of Austerity: Preserving the Specialist Domestic Violence Court Provision; Vanessa Bettinson.- Part II. Prevention and Intervention.- Chapter 5. Victim Support Services and the World of Commissioning; Di Turgoose.- Chapter 6. Children and Domestic Violence: What Do Family Intervention Workers Have to Offer?; Jo Little and Fae Garland.- Chapter 7. Building Healthy Relationships for Young People and the Prevention of Domestic Abuse; Chris Crowther-Dowey, Terry Gillespie and .- Chapter 8. Debates of Difference: Male Victims of Domestic Violence and Abuse; Luke Martin.- Chapter 9. The Relationship Between Spiritual Abuse and Domestic Violence and Abuse in Faith Based Communities; Lisa Oakley and Kathryn Kinmond.- Chapter 10. Housing: More Than Just Bricks and Mortar. Domestic Abuse Interventions within the Housing Sector; Gudrun Burnet.- Chapter 11. Independent Advocacy and Multi Agency Responses to Domestic Violence; Amanda Robinson and Joanne Payton.- Chapter 12. Working with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence and Abuse: The Potential for Change; Sarah Hilder and Caroline Freeman.- Chapter 13. Developing Interventions for Abusive Partners in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and/or Transgender Relationships; Rebecca Barnes and Catherine Donovan.