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‘Violence against Women is a universal phenomenon that persists in all countries of the world’ (WHO 2005). Unlike many other crimes the perpetrators of that violence (most often men) are often well known to their victims (Home Office 2009). There are many painful complexities that can make the experience of violence committed by a partner, known friend or family member, particularly hard to talk about and especially difficult to report as a crime. The World Health Organisation highlights that ‘domestic violence in particular, continues to be frighteningly common and accepted as “normal” within too many societies’ (WHO 2005: 9). Responding to victims of this crime is therefore extremely complex and the mission to work alongside the Turkish Probation Service, to begin the development of a national response to victims of domestic violence was, to say the least, an exciting challenge for the European Short Term Experts (STEs) involved in this project.
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Das, J., Unterlerchner, B. (2014). Developing Programmes for Victims of Domestic Abuse. In: McFarlane, M.A., Canton, R. (eds) Policy Transfer in Criminal Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137300607_14
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