All Outputs (2)

Surveying Domestic Abuse Victims: The Inimical Lack of Common Ground (2024)
Book Chapter
Couto, L. (in press). Surveying Domestic Abuse Victims: The Inimical Lack of Common Ground. In L. Huey, & D. Buil-Gil (Eds.), The Crime Data Handbook (304-315). Bristol: Bristol University Press

Owing to domestic abuse’s complexity, wherein a wide spectrum of behaviours can be subsumed, the subject has been studied in multiple fields (from health sciences to policing), and through different prisms (such as prevention, detection, and response... Read More about Surveying Domestic Abuse Victims: The Inimical Lack of Common Ground.

Domestic abuse: Analysing women's use of violence (2023)
Book Chapter
Couto, L. (2023). Domestic abuse: Analysing women's use of violence. In S. Banwel, L. Black, D. Cecil, Y. Djamba, S. Kimuna, E. Milne, …E. Tenkorang (Eds.), The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence (141-153). Leeds: Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-255-620231010

Now and again the discourse of women's violence being ignored and minimised emerges, but what is already known about this subject? Within the domestic abuse literature, there appears to be a weighty discord between Violence Against Women and Girls (V... Read More about Domestic abuse: Analysing women's use of violence.