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Domestic Violence Against Women: Relevance, Reflections, and Public Policies

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Gender Equality

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Domestic violence refers to frequent violent behavior or a pattern of coercive control undertaken, directly or indirectly, by individuals with or without consanguinity and who have a power relationship (intimate partners, family members, households, and sporadically), especially in the domestic environment, but not exclusively, given that it can be perpetrated at home, at work, in the street, in the leisure, and in other spaces than the private one. For, what qualifies this type of violence is the predominance of affective bonds between the aggressor and the victim, this condition, therefore, distinguishes domestic violence from non-domestic violence.

This entry proposes to take an approach on domestic violence (also called intrafamily/family violence) against women, with the aim of producing a reflection on the phenomenon and contributing to the understanding and debate of the issue.

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  1. University of Brasília (UnB), Brasília, Brazil

    Mércia Gomes Oliveira de Carvalho

  2. Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, Brazil

    Mércia Gomes Oliveira de Carvalho

  3. Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil

    Mércia Gomes Oliveira de Carvalho & Alba Jean Batista Viana

  4. Council of Municipal Health Secretariats of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil

    Mércia Gomes Oliveira de Carvalho

  5. Nucleus of Research and Extension of UNIFACISA – University center, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

    Alba Jean Batista Viana

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. Department of Biology & Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies – CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Andréia Faraoni Freitas Setti

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de Carvalho, M.G.O., Viana, A.J.B. (2019). Domestic Violence Against Women: Relevance, Reflections, and Public Policies. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70060-1_40-1

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