The strategy is well worth studying as is the report of the pilot which gave rise to the new Domestic Violence Protection Orders (DVPO)
The Gazette reported the launch on Tuesday, 1st July 2014.
On Saturday, 5th July 2014, The Gazette's letters page contained the following letter:
"Understandings led to changes:
The Gazette article (01.07.14) Domestic Violence Protection Orders (DVPOs) has to be welcomed. It was not until the feminist movement of the 1960s/70s that public interest in "domestic violence" piqued.
The recent increase in the recognition of the problem by state agencies has arisen from the action of the "woman's movement", and particularly, "woman's aid".
Having looked at the historical recognition of "domestic violence", it seems appropriate to evaluate and conclude that in the past 20 years, progress in dealing with "domestic violence" victims has been made.
Since the 1970s woman's organisations have called for the criminalisation of "domestic violence". This campaign became a strategy, a successful one in many respects: in that it led to the seriousness of the problem of "domestic violence" being recognised, and that it also promoted policy development.
Any understanding of a social problem must include a consideration of history, cultural beliefs and ideals. These understandings have led to the changes that have been made through the criminal justice system and social policy, which have helped deal with "domestic violence" victims"The letter was in the name of: Alison Huggan, Coulby Newham.
Leaving aside the superfluous use of quotation marks around each instance of domestic violence and the reference to woman's movement and woman's aid when it clearly should be women's (which does not need to be contained within quotation marks either), the letter is most notable for its curious use of the word piqued.
I shall examine the word piqued and its usage in my next post.
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