This book maps the problems and possibilities of the policies and practices designed to tackle violence against women in the domestic sphere over the last 40 years.

Kate Fitz-Gibbon is Professor of Social Sciences at Monash University, Australia.

Sandra Walklate is Professor and Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK.

1 Then and now: Historical reflections on violence(s) against women 2 From wife battering to coercive control 3 From invisible children to victim-survivors in their own right 4 From homicide to femicide 5 What is in a name? Charting the changing presence of victim-survivor voices in criminal justice policy 6 Criminalisation and its consequences 7 'Thinking otherwise': An experiment in progressing a whole of system reform agenda 8 Concluding thoughts: Invading the boy's club