Preventing Sexual Violence: Problems and Possibilities
Stephanie Kewley and Charlotte Barlow
Abstract
Efforts to prevent sexual violence against women and children can be evidenced by many local, national, global initiatives. In 2016, the World Health Organisation published its Global Plan of Action to address violence against women and children. The strategy called for a global and nationwide public health multisectoral response to preventing violence. This collection aims to respond to this call by examining academic and practitioner perspectives of current approaches that claim to respond to both victims and perpetrators of sexual violence in preventing future violence. Contributors across ... More
Efforts to prevent sexual violence against women and children can be evidenced by many local, national, global initiatives. In 2016, the World Health Organisation published its Global Plan of Action to address violence against women and children. The strategy called for a global and nationwide public health multisectoral response to preventing violence. This collection aims to respond to this call by examining academic and practitioner perspectives of current approaches that claim to respond to both victims and perpetrators of sexual violence in preventing future violence. Contributors across this collection, critically examine contemporary policy and practice, highlighting existing gaps in our knowledge, problems in policy and service delivery; as well as recommending possibilities and future solutions that might begin to address some of the challenges faced by stakeholders in this field.
Keywords:
Preventing Sexual Violence,
Multi-sectorial response to violence,
Addressing violence against women and children
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781529203769 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2021 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781529203769.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Stephanie Kewley, editor
Liverpool John Moores University
Charlotte Barlow, editor
Lancaster University
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