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Gendered violence regimes: Context, policy and practice in intimate partner violence in France and Sweden
Bordeaux University, France.
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences. (Gender Studies)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9808-1413
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7822-4563
2018 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This paper argues for more complex analyses of welfare state gender regimes by focusing on a key element frequently forgotten in cross-national comparisons: intimate partner violence (IPV) and responses thereto, especially criminal justice system (CJS) responses. We return to the notions of gender regime and welfare regimes, and critically elaborate them through the notion of gendered violence regime, to analyse gendered socio-political and judicial institutions and practices. According to Haney (2004), welfare state regimes, gender regimes and judicial regimes tend to match together in how policies are named, debated and implemented. However, many comparative welfare analyses do not attend to violence; moreover, violence and responses thereto are rooted in institutions and inequality regimes (Walby 2008).

Building on earlier work (Hearn, Strid et al. 2016), we use comparative methods to address discursive dynamics and judicial practices in France and Sweden in the light of transformations in gender regimes, illustrative of broader contextualizing and theoretical concerns. First, we review relevant laws and policy, inspired by the Critical Frame Analysis (Verloo 2007), noting differences, similarities and convergences in welfare and judicial systems. Second, we focus on judicial practices in two countries, particularly in CJS treatment of IPV. In Sweden, more explicitly gendered structural policy is accompanied by cases being constructed and treated more individually by professionals with real expertise on domestic violence; while in more corporatist regime France, only very serious cases are so treated, and less individual, more proceduralised assessment of cases by workdays lost is used. CJS procedure impact the construction and definition of the problem, especially regarding how professionals consider the gendering and seriousness of the violence in making a case.

Finally, we critically interrogate how useful “regime” typologies are, including in providing avenues for intersectional analyses combining sociological theories of change (Muller 2005) and transformation (Felstiner et al. 1980).

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2018.
Keywords [en]
gender, gender regimes, France, Sweden, violence, policy
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Gender Studies
Research subject
Gender Studies; Sociology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-83752OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-83752DiVA, id: diva2:1448127
Conference
XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada, July 15-21, 2018
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Regimes of violenceAvailable from: 2020-06-26 Created: 2020-06-26 Last updated: 2020-07-28Bibliographically approved

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