Web resource:	http://www.aic.gov.au/media_library/conferences/multiculturalism/assafiri.pdf
Type:	Conference Paper
Title:	NESB woman as 'deviant': the legal system's 'treatment' of NESB women as victims of male violence
Other Titles:	The criminal justice system in a multicultural society, 4 - 6 May, 1993, M[cut]
Authors:	Assafiri, Hanna Dimopoulos, Maria
Keywords:	Legal issues;CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse)
Year:	1995
Publisher:	Australian Institute of Criminology
Notes:	Note: The unedited full text of the papers of this conference were originally published on floppy disk as Multiculturalism and the Law [electronic resource]. This paper describes the experiences of women from a non-English speaking background who have sought legal intervention. The authors attended intervention order hearings in a number of magistrates' courts where NESB women were complainants, and conducted interviews with the Refuge Ethnic Workers' programme to obtain the information. It was found that the victim's conduct and culture were perceived as more significant factors for the violence than the perpetrator's behaviour. The less the Anglo culture was absorbed, the more likely the woman would be diagnosed as deviant. Several examples of racism, discrimination, humiliation and ignorance committed by magistrates against these women are included.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/21072
ISBN:	9780642226532
Physical description:	5p
Appears in Collections:	Conference Papers

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