Safe - the domestic abuse quarterly

Issue 6, Summer 2003

Highlights include :

Safety and Justice: The challenge ahead
The domestic violence consultation paper puts forward a raft of measures to help protect women and children in the UK. Nicola Harwin, Director of Women's Aid, looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the government's proposals.

Making it through the Criminal Justice System?
Professor Marianne Hester, from the International Centre for the Study of Violence and Abuse, writes about new research undertaken into attrition in domestic violence cases.

Once were Warriors?: Colonisation and Maori family violence
Maori family violence and the Women's Refuge Movement in Aotearoa, New Zealand. By Tania Pouhare of the Women's Resource Centre (London), with Roma Balzer, National Co-ordinator of Women's Refuge.

Bound by the law?
A domestic violence Bill that fails to offer any adequate protection for survivors of domestic violence is currently under consideration in India. Kaveri Sharma, an Indian lawyer based in the UK, reports.

Plus all the latest news, research, book reviews and events.