CJ-698 Community-Based Responses to Violence, Against Women
There are many different ways that communities, have responded to violence against women. Both, in the United States and around the world, the, most common methods have involved either, punishment for offenders, efforts to create, safety for victims, or attempts to reform, offenders. A new set of antiviolence approaches, are being developed that go beyond the goals of, punishment, safety, and reform. These new, approaches, which are loosely grouped together, as 'community-based responses,' seek to, mobilizing specific communities against violence;, organize women across communities of color; and, challenge the theories, practices, and politics, of existing antiviolence efforts. These new, approaches are the focus of this course.