Chong, Mark David, Bennet, Verity, Messigah, Georgina, Boulard, Florence, and Fellows, Jamie (2024) A Critical and Comparative Analysis of the Laws Pertaining to Intimate Partner Violence in Queensland (Australia) and Lagos (Nigeria). In: Basu, Pekham, and Sinha, Ruchi, (eds.) Families and Gendered Violence and Conflict: Pan-Continent Reach. Social Work . Springer, Cham, Switzerland.

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Abstract

Intimate partner violence (or IPV) is increasingly recognized worldwide as a significant social and criminal problem that requires urgent governmental attention and remedy. While there are a range of nonlegislative measures that can be implemented to address such egregiously violent behaviors, the World Health Organization has additionally recommended that more efforts be made to reform the legal frameworks that attempt to directly, and indirectly, prevent such criminal conduct. With that recommendation in mind, this chapter will attempt to critically examine the nature, extent, as well as the applicable laws pertaining to IPV in two different legal jurisdictions, the first being in Queensland, Australia, and the second in Lagos, Nigeria. To that end, not only will their respective legal frameworks be interrogated in order to determine their saliency and effectiveness at curbing this deleterious conduct – a critical comparative analysis will also be conducted so as to potentially uncover valuable lessons that each jurisdiction can learn from one another. Finally, and where relevant, specific proposals will be made to reform their respective extant national legislation, which will hopefully address and/or ameliorate some/all of the key weaknesses and gaps revealed by this critical and comparative analyses.

Item ID:	80987
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Research - B1)
ISBN:	978-3-031-42602-5
Keywords:	Intimate Partner Violence; criminal jurisdiction; civil jurisdiction; Queensland, Australia; Lagos, Nigeria; legal reforms; comparative legal analysis
Copyright Information:	© 2024 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Date Deposited:	13 Jun 2024 02:02
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