Clouding the Judgment of Domestic Violence Law: Victim Blaming by Institutional Stakeholders in Cambodia.
Clouding the Judgment of Domestic Violence Law: Victim Blaming by Institutional Stakeholders in Cambodia.
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DOI：
10.1177/0886260515588919
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发表时间：
2017-05
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Brickell K
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作者：
Brickell K
本文探讨了柬埔寨家庭暴力法在保护受害者方面的司法失败中受害者的所谓同谋。该报告基于在暹粒省和菩萨省进行的为期3年（2012-2014年）的研究，研究内容涉及2005年《防止家庭暴力和保护受害者法》（《家庭暴力法》）的日常政治。该项目质疑为什么对家庭暴力法的投资步履蹒跚，并采取了多利益攸关方的方法。除了对女性家庭暴力受害者进行的40次访谈外，研究还包括对法律的和卫生专业人员、非政府组织工作人员、低级别和高级别警官、宗教人士和地方政府当局领导人进行的50次访谈，他们都对《家庭暴力法》的实施和执行进行了职业投资。后一个样本的调查结果构成了这篇文章的主干，它揭示了妇女不仅被视为“影响法律判断”的障碍，而且被视为否认机构利益攸关方（和法律本身）将肇事者绳之以法的行为者。调查结果表明，家庭暴力法有可能巩固，而不是减少，受害者指责的环境。反过来，文章信号的重要性，研究和更好的专业支持，中介人（话语）管理家庭暴力法和受害者/公民之间的关系，它试图保护。
This article examines victims’ purported complicity in the judicial failures of domestic violence law to protect them in Cambodia. It is based on 3 years (2012-2014) of research in Siem Reap and Pursat Provinces on the everyday politics of the 2005 “Law on the Prevention of Domestic Violence and the Protection of the Victims” (DV Law). The project questioned why investments in DV Law are faltering and took a multi-stakeholder approach to do so. In addition to 40 interviews with female domestic violence victims, the research included 50 interviews with legal and health professionals, NGO workers, low- and high-ranking police officers, religious figures, and local government authority leaders who each have an occupational investment in the implementation and enforcement of DV Law. Forming the backbone of the article, the findings from this latter sample reveal how women are construed not only as barriers “clouding the judgment of law” but also as actors denying the agency of institutional stakeholders (and law itself) to bring perpetrators to account. The findings suggest that DV Law has the potential to entrench, rather than diminish, an environment of victim blaming. In turn, the article signals the importance of research on, and better professional support of, intermediaries who (discursively) administrate the relationship between DV Law and the victims/citizens it seeks to protect.