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The book shares how this system drives, rather than deters, intimate partner violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt examines how social, legal, and financial resources are diverted into a criminal legal apparatus that is often unable to deliver justice or safety to victims or prevent intimate partner violence in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEnvisioned for both courses and research topics in domestic violence, family violence, gender and law, and sociology of law, the book challenges readers to understand intimate partner violence not solely, or even primarily, as a criminal law concern but as an economic, public health, community, and human rights problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt argues that only by viewing intimate partner violence through these lenses can we develop a balanced policy agenda for addressing it. 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Investigating the moral messages contained in the prosaic yet power-imbued processes that make up daily life in custody, Ievins finds that the prison she studied communicated a pervasive sense of disgust and shame, marking the men it held as permanently stained. 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