Decoupling : gender injustice in China's divorce courts /

Michelson's analysis of almost 150,000 divorce trials reveals routine and egregious violations of China's own laws upholding the freedom of divorce, gender equality, and the protection of women's physical security. Using 'big data' computational techniques to scrutinize case...

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主要作者: Michelson, Ethan (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
丛编:Cambridge studies in law and society.
在线阅读:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768177
书本目录:
  • Sisyphus goes to divorce court
  • The right to decouple
  • The divorce twofer: why court behavior is decoupled from the right to decouple
  • Studying judicial decision-making: court decisions in Henan and Zhejiang
  • "Many cases, few judges" and the vanishing three-judge trial
  • Tracing the origins of the divorce twofer to heavy caseloads
  • How judges gaslight domestic violence victims in divorce trials
  • Divorce denials: judicial discourse and judicial decision-making
  • Fight or flight: consequences of the judicial clampdown on divorce
  • Possession is nine-tenths of the law: why wife-beaters gain child custody
  • Quantitative patterns in child custody determinations: sons to fathers, daughters to mothers, abusers rewarded, victims punished
  • Conclusions: assessing the impact of law by observing judicial behavior.