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The Impact of Domestic Violence Legal Regulation and Enforcement Among Nigerian Immigrants in Ireland

The purpose of this study was to appraise the efficacy of law and its enforcement in changing peoples’ perceptions and attitudes toward domestic violence and raising awareness about it. The study explored the role of legal regulation and enforcement in tackling domestic violence by investigating how its regulation and enforcement in Ireland impacted on the Nigerian immigrants’ perceptions and attitudes toward it. It queries if both jurisdictions are protecting human rights adequately within their domains. The universal theory of human rights and the feminist legal theory were used to guide the…