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Comparing criminal justice responses to violence against women in Canada and China |
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| Authors: | Dora MY Tam Myrna Dawson Margaret Jackson Siu-Ming Kwok Wilfreda E Thurston |
| Institution: | 1. School of Social Work, King's University College at the Western University , Ontario , Canada dmytam@uwo.ca;3. Department of Sociology and Anthropology , Canada Research Chair, University of Guelph , Guelph , Canada;4. School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University , Burnaby , Canada;5. School of Social Work, King's University College at the Western University , Ontario , Canada;6. Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine , University of Calgary , Canada |
| Abstract: | Canada and China are two very different countries in terms of their socio-economic and political contexts; however, neither country is immune to the social problem of violence against women. This paper compares the criminal justice responses to violence against women in Canada and China in order to explore the pathway of responses to violence against women in different cultural contexts, and discusses the implications for addressing violence against women on an international horizon. |
| Keywords: | violence against women justice responses Canada and China |