International Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence

Madhumita Pandey is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Internationalisation Lead in the Department of Law and Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She works in the area of sexual offending, sex offenders and violence against women, particularly focusing on rape, in the Global South. She utilizes a feminist framework to work with both victims and perpetrators of gender-based violence to not only highlight women’s vulnerability but also men’s responsibility.

• Foreword.- Chapter 1. Introduction to Gender-Based Violence.- Chapter 2. Violence, Control, Power, and Rage in Female Slaveholder-Slave Relationships.- Chapter 3. Female Victims of Gendered Violence.- Chapter 4. Misconceptions of False Rape Complainants Using Narrative Victimology in India.- Chapter 5. Preventing Men from Committing Sexual Offences.- Chapter 6. Exploring Cultural, Legal, and Societal Factors of Rape in Lesotho.- Chapter 7. Criminological Analysis of Sex Trafficking in India.- Chapter 8. The Role of Cultural Narratives in English Sexual Offences Trials: Beyond Rape Myths.- Chapter 9. Examining Political and Media Constructions of the Racialised “Other” in Terrorism Discourse: A Case Study of Shamima Begum.- Chapter 10. Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Violence Reduction Interventions.- Chapter 11.- Rape Myth Construction in the Adversarial Legal System: Attack as the Best Form of Defence?.- Chapter 12. Gender-Based Violenceon Twitter: A Critical Discourse analysis of Trolling of Rihanna.- Chapter 13. Intimate Partner Abuse and Coercive Control in News Media: A Case Study of Hannah Clarke.- Chapter 14. Exploring the UK’s Approach to Child Trafficking of Young Women and Girls: A Human Rights Perspective.