VIOLENCE IN THE EU EXAMINED Policies on Violence against Women, Children and Youth in 2004 EU Accession Countries

The first part of the book includes papers written by researchers working on the project titled, Ways of Implementing the EU Directives on Violence against Women, Children and Youth: Good Practices and Recommendations.
First, the project and recommendations are presented, followed of a paper by Milica Anti? Gaber, Mojca Dobnikar and Irena Selišnik, who try to put the efforts
of combating and researching violence against women, children and youth in comparative perspective. The book continues with papers by Irena Selišnik, Sara Rožman, Iztok Šori and Tina Romih, which present their findings from the abovementioned research project. The authors concentrate mainly on the legislation changes in the ten 2004 accession countries regarding EU recommendations, and they try to identify key actors of change, with good practices on the one side
and deficiencies on the other. The issues they address are gender-based violence, sexual harassment, trafficking in persons, sexual exploitation in prostitution and pornography and children as victims of violence in the family. In the second section, three theoretical inputs came from Carol Hagemann-White, Katja Filip?i? and Jeff Hearn, whose papers (as well as Liz Kelly’s) were first presented at the Conference in Ljubljana in March 2009. The authors
analyse different policies on violence against women from legal and sociological perspectives, suggest new approaches and solutions and are critical of current legislation and practices combating with violence against women. The last paper in this part concentrates on the new research developments on men as perpetrators of violence and suggests some new policies and practices. In the third part, Abigal Stepnitz, Dalida Rittossa and Milana Trbojevi? Palali? present two interesting research studies. In the first study, the author analyses the practice of mail-order brides and labels it as an industry and form of trafficking. In the second, the two authors present their research on secondary victimisation of children in Croatia.
In the last part, Rada Grubi? presents her work experiences in the Intercultural shelter (Interkulturelles Frauenhaus) in Berlin, in which she discusses the issues of intercultural work with migrant women and children exposed to domestic violence.