In a number of countries, domestic violence is represented as a governable phenomenon that is amenable to policy interventions. Over the past 40 years in the Netherlands, however, this approach has not resulted in a reduction of domestic violence. Yet new policy strategies continue to be designed to improve existing interventions. In this article, we focus on a Dutch policy measure that aims to detect early signals of violence and abuse. We argue that this strategy, by approaching domestic violence as a technical problem, fails to take into account structural and symbolic violence. As a consequence, the impact of domestic violence policies on women, particularly poor women, and especially women with a migration background, is to intensify their difficulties. Moreover, these policies deploy a technology that shapes the subjectivity of professionals engaged in protection practices, while maintaining the status quo of inequality and violence against women. The connection between these two flaws of domestic violence policies leads us to claim that the current approach is constituted as a regime of deficiency.

在许多国家中，家庭暴力被视为一种可治理的现象，可以接受政策干预。但是，在过去的40年中，荷兰的这种做法并未减少家庭暴力。然而，将继续设计新的政策策略以改善现有干预措施。在本文中，我们重点介绍旨在发现暴力和虐待的早期信号的荷兰政策措施。我们认为，该战略通过将家庭暴力作为一个技术问题，未能考虑到结构性和象征性暴力。结果，家庭暴力政策对妇女，特别是贫穷妇女，特别是有移民背景的妇女的影响加剧了她们的困难。此外，这些政策采用了一种技术，该技术塑造了从事保护实践的专业人员的主观性，同时保持了不平等和暴力侵害妇女行为的现状。家庭暴力政策的这两个缺陷之间的联系使我们断言当前的做法是一种缺乏制度。