In this study, the author examines the difficulties arising from the shift from private, traditional methods of dealing with violence against women to a more public approach characterized by intervention of the state and the criminal justice system. The author hypothesized that enforcement of the Israeli Law Against Family Violence among the oppressed and discriminated Palestinian minority generates new conflicts within the group, exacerbating control and abuse and re-victimizing women. Data based on interviews with formal and informal social control agents pointed to obstacles to enforcement created by socio cultural variables, the political legacy, and procedural barriers. The author concludes that unless power struggles, cultural pressures, and political priorities are taken into consideration, criminal strategies that seek to eliminate abuse may produce adverse effects at the victim???s expense.
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