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4 Feminist Criminology 3 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/femcrim4 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Jnuary 2009 3-6 © 2009) SAGE Publicaitions L1 ll. ll 11 11 1(7) Editorial hosted at http://oniline,,sagepub.com W elcome to this issue of Feminist Criminology. We are pleased to report that this issue has four interesting articles, all of which share the common thread of victimization. Three of the articles focus on some aspect of intimate-partner violence and the fourth article examines fear of crime more generally. In the first article, Alesha Durfee looks at legal representation in domestic violence civil protection order hearing outcomes in the United States. The article examines the ways legal representation and legal assistance affect victim narratives in the protec- tive order application process. The findings demonstrate that there are pronounced differences between narratives written by lawyers, those written with assistance from legal advocates, and those written exclusively by victims themselves (pro se). These differences also have an impact on the outcome of hearings and suggest that advocacy is not as effective as formal legal representation in these cases, even though the process was expressly designed to work without the presence of counsel. Whereas Durfee's article focused on domestic violence within America, Edna Erez, Madelaine Adelman, and Carol Gregory focus on the voices of 137 immigrant women from 35 different countries. Noting the interconnection between racist violence, violence against women, and the institutionalization of the battered woman's move- ment within U.S. social service and criminal justice systems, the authors present an integrated approach that recognizes the intersectionality of these various factors. The authors find that some aspects of the women's experiences, such as economic challenges, are not distinctive for battered women who are immigrants; however, immigrant status and culture also present unique effects. The findings demonstrate that battered immigrant women face a range of legal, economic, and social challenges. Designing social and legal policies that do not further entrap these victims will continue to challenge feminist criminologists. In the third article, Erin Nabors and Jana Jasinski examine the relationship between college students' attitudes about gender roles and gendered violence and perpetration of intimate partner violence. Although previous research finds that beliefs supportive of domestic violence are predictive of abuse in intimate relationships among college students, research, to date, fails to fully explore the nature of these associations especially as it relates to temporal order issues. The current study looks at attitudes before and after perpetration to determine whether attitudes precede or follow acts of intimate violence. Their findings suggest that the relationship between attitudes and intimate partner violence are more complex than prior research indicates and differ for female and male college students. 3

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