This book offers a critical overview of established and emerging manifestations of domestic violence across Europe. It describes how countries within and outside the EU are responding to the problem in policy, practice and research. Eminent academics and professionals from a range of European countries share their findings from new groundbreaking victim surveys, and weigh up the legal, social and healthcare challenges. The issues addressed include: - the cultural challenges of combating abuse forms most prevalent in migrant communities such as female genital mutilation and forced marriage; - emerging problems such as child-to-parent violence, teenage relationship violence and digital intimate partner abuse; and - barriers to help-seeking faced by marginalised victims such as LGBTQ and older people. By showcasing the most effective responses formulated in Europe and exploring innovative ways to research and understand domestic violence, this book is a crucial resource for all those with responsibility for implementing social policy and good practice. About the Editors: Stephanie Holt, PhD is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work & Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin. Prior to her current academic post she worked as a community care social worker and co-ordinated a Family Support Service in the South Western Area Health Board of Dublin. Her academic and research interests include domestic violence, intimate partner homicide and risk assessment, child contact, child care and family support. She has a particular interest in ascertaining and representing the voice of the child in research. She is currently Chair of the Irish branch of BASPCAN (British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect). Carolina Överlien, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Institution of Social Work, Stockholm University, Sweden, and a Researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS), Oslo, Norway. Her research interests are within the area of domestic violence and child abuse and neglect, with most of her publications on the issues of children experiencing domestic violence and teenage intimate partner violence. She has a particular interest in children's agency, children's rights and narrative analysis. John Devaney, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work within the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, at Queen's University Belfast. He joined the university in 2006 after a working as a social worker and senior manager in social care. His research interests lie in the areas of familial violence, the safeguarding of children from abuse and neglect, the development of child welfare policy and the impact of childhood adversity across the lifecourse.He has published widely on issues related to domestic violence and child abuse and neglect. |