Overview
- Provides scholarly and practical insights from a wide range of countries across the African continent
- Explores the practical challenges of advancing justice for women on the African continent
- Speaks directly to UN SDG 5: Gender Equality
Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Legislation and its Implementation in Addressing Violence Against Women
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Limitations of Criminal Justice Responses to Violence Against Women
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About this book
This book examines violence against women in Africa and criminal justice from the perspective of African scholars, practitioners and experts. As a global and long-standing issue, violence against women is gaining public visibility across the African continent with some states announcing a national crisis warranting immediate redress. At the global level, the elimination of all forms of violence against all women and girls forms a key part of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality. Split across two volumes, these books present a comprehensive analysis of the latest research and theories, principles and practices of criminal justice systems, criminal justice accountability mechanisms, and the key challenges women face in their quest for justice on the African continent. Volume I focusses on legislation and its impact, the limitations of criminal justice responses, and the cultural and social norms regarding access to justice. Volume II examines sexual violenceand vulnerable women’s access to justice in Africa. They adopt a comparative approach that highlight gaps and good practices to provide a rich source of authoritative information for promoting an intra-African dialogue and cross-fertilization of ideas across the different criminal justice traditions in Africa. Both volumes seek to advance discussions on eliminating violence against women in Africa and speak to those interested in criminal justice, violence, gender studies and African legal studies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Emma Charlene Lubaale is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of Rhodes University, South Africa.
Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz is the programme manager of the Master’s in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Violence Against Women and Criminal Justice in Africa: Volume I
Book Subtitle: Legislation, Limitations and Culture
Editors: Emma Charlene Lubaale, Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz
Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75949-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75948-3Published: 28 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75951-3Published: 29 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75949-0Published: 27 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2523-3084
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 391
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Critical Criminology, Human Rights, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development