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Email: *	[email protected]
Surname: *	Gill
First Name: *	Carmen
Job Title: *	Director
Institution: *	Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for family violence research/University of New Brunswick
Address *	678 Windsor Street Fredericton, New Brunswick
Post/Zip Code *	E3B 5A3

Preferred presentation mode *

oral

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Yes

Title of paper *

Specialized justice responses to domestic violence cases

Authors: *

Carmen Gill

Presenting Author: *

Carmen Gill

Topic(s): *

Intimate partner and sexual violence

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Key Words

domestic violence specialized court data collection justice

Abstract Content *

One innovative justice system response, since the beginning of the nineties, has been the development of specialized domestic violence courts in different countries. These new mechanisms for dealing with cases of intimate partner violence addressed many of the identified problems of non-specialized processes, such as improved victim services and programs for abusers, greater collaboration between family and criminal matters, and an array of new law enforcement policies and legislation, such as pro-arrest policies and domestic violence legislation. In Canada, different provincial and territorial jurisdictions have implemented specialized domestic violence courts. However, emerging research raises critical questions on the role of courts in society. Judges, defense attorneys, prosecutors and victim advocates, while expressing support for a specialized domestic violence court model, are still concerned about issues of victim safety, the safety of children, and offender recidivism. Victims continue to face difficulties in the justice system impeding their participation and therefore, weakening the justice systems usefulness as a resource for their protection. In 2007, experts from the Canadian observatory on the justice systems response to intimate partner violence, commenced the groundwork to fully understand the process and the effectiveness of specialized domestic violence courts. In this presentation, we will discuss specialized justice responses to domestic violence cases versus non specialized responses in Canada. This will lead to talk about working in partnership, the importance of collaboration among diverse stakeholders in order to establish proper data collection about offenders and victims of intimate partner violence entering in the justice system.

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