TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Local Justice and Victim Support for Battered Women in Tajikistan
JO  - International journal of comparative and applied criminal justice
A1  - Haarr, Robin N.
SP  - 195
EP  - 220
VL  - 32
IS  - 2
N2  - Based upon four years of action-oriented ethnographic field research on wife abuse in Tajikistan, this article reveals the barriers that battered women face in accessing justice and victim support services in a developing, post-socialist, sovereign Central Asian state. In doing so, this article considers the cultural context in which wife abuse occurs, the local political context in which wife abuse emerged as a social problem worthy of discourse, and efforts underway locally to conceptualize wife abuse as issues of violence against women and human rights. This article makes a significant contribution to the limited body of research and literature on wife abuse in Tajikistan and Central Asia.<p />
LA  - 
SN  - 0192-4036
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -