Beyond Fear: Social Work Strategies for Protecting Women from Femicide

This book equips readers with clear frameworks, practical tools, and real-world strategies to identify risk, protect survivors, engage communities, and advocate for systemic change. Each chapter blends research, case studies, and survivor-centred approaches with ready-to-use checklists, safety plans, and decision trees.

From crisis intervention and lethality assessment to community prevention, legal advocacy, and organisational readiness, Beyond Fear is both a practical manual and a call to action. It insists that social work must be central to femicide prevention and that survivors deserve nothing less than coordinated, compassionate, and effective protection.

Whether you are a frontline social worker, a student of social work and gender studies, or a policymaker seeking reform, this book provides the knowledge and tools needed to move from response to prevention — and from fear to justice.