Countering violence against women, actors, processes and practices of an evolving field

Gender-based violence, and specifically that against women, represents a complex issue that requires the commitment of many subjects, specialized and non-specialized, to be addressed and removed. The analyzes contained in this issue of RPS they shed light on the different intervention practices and organizational logics of specialized services, on the interaction difficulties that can be observed in networking with general services and on the regulatory categories within which their activity is classified and regulated. ( The results of the qualitative studies conducted within the Viva Project: https://viva.cnr.it/)