Women-only police stations an effective way to target domestic violence, law professor says

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2015-03-10 17:01

Article here. Excerpt:

'The head of the school of justice at Queensland University of Technology, Professor Kerry Carrington, said such police stations had been shown to encourage more women to report domestic violence, and resulted in more women being satisfied with the outcome.

But the innovation is not among the recommendations handed down last month in the Queensland Government's Not now, not ever report into domestic violence.

Professor Carrington told 612 ABC Brisbane that Brazil has been operating women-only police stations since 1985 and had gradually increased their presence to 485 locations.'

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1) Women are not the only victims of domestic violence
2) Discriminating against officers of one gender to help citizens of the other is unjust

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Submitted by xtrnl on Thu, 2015-03-12 18:09