Introduction

Abstract

The book, THE POLITICIZATION OF SAFETY, will critically explore political dimensions of interventions in or failures to intervene in domestic violence. The Introduction identifies how domestic violence is commonly assumed to be a bipartisan, nonpolitical issue, yet racial and gender politics, the move toward criminalization, reproductive justice concerns, gun control debates, and other factors and political interests significantly shape responses to domestic violence. The development of the anti-domestic violence movement and has a complex history, and the way forward during the Trump Era will certainly be fraught as protections and services for survivors of gender-based violence are under siege.

Problem of domestic violence: international scope and national perspectives on legislative resolution

“…The Russian doctrine is also silent about the signals transmitted by foreign science about weak points and inconclusive legislative decisions revealed in the legislation on family and domestic violence. These include increased procedural requirements for civil remedies against domestic violence that hinder the effectiveness of this remedy [16], the duration of protective measures applied to the victim in the form of protective orders that must be longterm or even permanent [17]; otherwise, there is a risk of "causing even more harm to the victim in the long term" [18], the need to criminalize this type of domestic violence as forced control over the victim [19], the removal of law enforcement barriers in the service and enforcement of restraining orders [20].…”