Table of Contents
Introduction: International Response to Domestic Violence (Julie Schroeder, Diana Scharff Peterson, Olga Osby and Safiya Omari)
1. Intimate Partner Violence in Canada: Policies, Practices, and Prevalence (Darryl Plecas, Irwin Cohen and A. McCormick)
2. The Prevalence of Severe Intimate Partner Violence in Sweden (Susanne Strand and Heidi Selenius)
3. Responding to Domestic Abuse in England and Wales (Stephanie L. Reardon and Kim Trevillion, on behalf of Limeculture)
4. Levels of Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women Analyzed From the Multi-Causal-Ecological Pyramidal Model: The Case of Spain (Victoria A. Ferrer-Perez and Eperanza Bosch-Fiol)
5. Domestic Violence in Italy: An Epidemic Phenomenon (Bruno Meini)
6. Domestic Violence in Austria (Maximilian Edelbacher and Josef Horl)
7. Domestic Violence in Turkey: Unreported Cases and Civic/State Response (Ozgur Solakoglu, M. Tugba Erdem, Suhey Gurbuz and Eray Karlidag)
8. Status Quo and Countermeasures on Domestic Violence in Japan (Susumu Nagai)
9. The Vietnamese Police Response to Domestic Violence Against Women: The Family Unit Under Pressure (Mike Perkins, Louise Cotrel-Gibbons and Huong Thu Nguyen)
10. Domestic Violence in Australia – A Wicked Problem (Sedat Mulayim and Miranda Lai)
11. Domestic Violence in South Africa: An Unpleasant Narrative (Christiaan Bezuidenhout)
12. Combatting the Menace of Domestic Violence: The Ghanaian Experience (Gerald Depaah Gyamfi)