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Abstract
Violence against women in the home: Kaleidoscopes on a collision
course?
The paper examines the nature, dynamics and effects of domestic violence as
experienced by its victims (including witnesses). This version of 'reality'
is then contrasted with examples of how, either through its 'black letter' words
or in its implementation, civil, criminal, family, social security and immigration
law may act to obscure and distort this reality. The misunderstanding of dynamics
and effects occurs through interpreting domestic violence juxtaposed against
a standard of normal assault and response in the public sphere.
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