Intimate Partner Violence and the Complexity Turn. The Multiple Conceptions of Gender in IPV Policy in Switzerland

Pauline Delage; Marta Roca i Escoda

doi:10.2478/sjs-2023-0011

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Intimate Partner Violence and the Complexity Turn. The Multiple Conceptions of Gender in IPV Policy in Switzerland

Swiss Journal of Sociology

Volume 49 (2023): Issue 1 (March 2023)

By: Pauline Delage and Marta Roca i Escoda

Open Access

|Mar 2023

Abstract

Based on socio-historical research of domestic violence treatment in the cantons of Vaud and Geneva, this article analyses how the co-presence of many actors and approaches has affected the definition of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Switzerland. IPV policies centred on gender and then reframed to define violence as a complex issue. We show what the consequences of framing complexity for policy are.

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