scholarly journals Understanding and Addressing Women’s Use of Force in Intimate Relationships: A Retrospective

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Young Larance ◽  
Leigh Goodmark ◽  
Susan L. Miller ◽  
Shamita Das Dasgupta
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Heterosexual Relationships ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Legal Response ◽  
The Common ◽  
Experiences Of Women

This article surveys an evolving understanding of women’s use of force in their intimate heterosexual relationships. It explores the common characteristics of women who use force and, using an intersectional lens, considers the experiences of women in marginalized communities. It also examines how the legal response to intimate partner violence has affected this population. In addition, the development of and best practices in community-based gender-responsive programming for women’s use of force in their intimate heterosexual relationships are overviewed. In conclusion, this work identifies challenges that still exist in effectively responding to women’s use of force.

Emergent Research and Practice Trends in Contextually Addressing the Complexity of Women’s Use of Force

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Y. Larance ◽  
Susan L. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Heterosexual Relationships ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Emerging Issues

This chapter provides an overview of the research on and community-based programmatic responses to battered women’s use of force in their intimate heterosexual relationships. The chapter highlights emerging issues in this area with the goal of developing a more fully informed response to the complexity introduced by criminalizing women’s responses to violence and abuse in their intimate relationships.

scholarly journals Digital or Digitally Delivered Responses to Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19

10.2196/19831 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. e19831 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuka Emezue
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Critical Resource ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Digital Or ◽  
At Home

Before the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), 1 in 3 women and girls, globally, were victimized by an abusive partner in intimate relationships. However, the current pandemic has amplified cases of domestic violence (DV) against women and girls, with up to thrice the prevalence in DV cases compared to the same time last year. Evidence of the adverse effects of the pandemic on DV is still emerging, even as violence prevention strategies are iteratively being refined by service providers, advocacy agencies, and survivors to meet stay-at-home mandates. Emotional and material support for survivors is a critical resource increasingly delivered using digital and technology-based modalities, which offer several advantages and challenges. This paper rapidly describes current DV mitigation approaches using digital solutions, signaling emerging best practices to support survivors, their children, and abusers during stay-at-home advisories. Some examples of technology-based strategies and solutions are presented. An immediate priority is mapping out current digital solutions in response to COVID-19–related DV and outlining issues with uptake, coverage, and meaningful use of digital solutions.

The Intimate Relationship Experiences of Women Engaged in Transactional Sex Work in Barbados

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122110582
Author(s):  
Stavroula Kyriakakis ◽  
Jenna Henning ◽  
Sadie Goddard-Durant
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Relationship Experiences ◽  
Experiences Of Women

This phenomenological study, consisting of individual interviews with a sample of 30 women engaged in sex work, examines the intimate relationships of women engaged in sex work in Barbados. Participants often entered relationships with men they met while engaged in sex work. Most experienced relationships that became transactional, abusive, and exploitative. Intimate partner violence (IPV) challenged their ability to negotiate condom use with intimate partners placing them at risk for HIV. A cycle emerged of entering relationships to exit the violent conditions of sex work and then re-entering sex work to escape IPV. Implications for mental health, HIV prevention, IPV, and empowerment services are described.

Academic Apartheid: Segregation in the Study of Partner Violence

Partner Abuse ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Felson
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Legal Response ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Forms Of Violence

The study of men’s violence against their intimate partners is segregated from the study of other forms of violence. Comparing intimate partner violence (IPV) to other violence, however, allows one to examine whether the motivation and the legal response are similar. I examine whether men’s assaults on partners are particularly likely to have a control motive, whether women’s assaults on partners are particularly likely to be motivated by self-defense, and whether intimate partner violence is less likely to be reported to the police and legally sanctioned. The evidence casts doubt on the feminist approach, which has dominated the study of IPV. I suggest that a theory of instrumental violence provides a better understanding of IPV. Such an approach recognizes a variety of motives and emphasizes the role of conflict in intimate relationships, sex differences in strength and violence, and the importance of chivalry. Finally, I suggest that social scientists who study IPV should be more careful in their descriptive terminology.

Perpetrating violence in intimate relationships as a gendering practice: An ethnographic study on domestic violence perpetrators in France and Italy

2020 ◽  
pp. 263300242096227
Author(s):  
Cristina Oddone
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Heterosexual Relationships ◽  
Female Partners ◽  
Violent Acts

Based on an ethnographic research on perpetrator programs in France and Italy, this article aims at analyzing men’s accounts of intimate partner violence in heterosexual relationships. Whether perpetrators explain their violence (1) as a trivial fact, (2) as a reaction to their partner’s behavior, or (3) as a temporary and exceptional loss of control, these adult heterosexual men refer to a “natural” gender order and to heteronormative representations of women and men. In particular, these violent acts against female partners seem to be employed as (4) strategic performances to “save face” and achieve a hegemonic model of masculinity. Situated in the tension between norm and deviance, the perpetration of domestic violence can be framed as a gendering practice: through the performance of abusive acts against women in the context of intimate relationships, perpetrators attempt to situate themselves in the wide spectrum of masculinities and in its internal hierarchy. The study of men’s perception and experience of violence perpetration leads to overcome the binary conception of intimate partner violence that opposes men and women.

scholarly journals Digital or Digitally Delivered Responses to Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19 (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuka Emezue
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Critical Resource ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Digital Or ◽  
At Home

UNSTRUCTURED Before the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), 1 in 3 women and girls, globally, were victimized by an abusive partner in intimate relationships. However, the current pandemic has amplified cases of domestic violence (DV) against women and girls, with up to thrice the prevalence in DV cases compared to the same time last year. Evidence of the adverse effects of the pandemic on DV is still emerging, even as violence prevention strategies are iteratively being refined by service providers, advocacy agencies, and survivors to meet stay-at-home mandates. Emotional and material support for survivors is a critical resource increasingly delivered using digital and technology-based modalities, which offer several advantages and challenges. This paper rapidly describes current DV mitigation approaches using digital solutions, signaling emerging best practices to support survivors, their children, and abusers during stay-at-home advisories. Some examples of technology-based strategies and solutions are presented. An immediate priority is mapping out current digital solutions in response to COVID-19–related DV and outlining issues with uptake, coverage, and meaningful use of digital solutions.

The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Grossmann ◽  
Nic M. Weststrate ◽  
Monika Ardelt ◽  
Justin Peter Brienza ◽  
Mengxi Dong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
The Common ◽  
Empirical Approaches ◽  
And Training ◽  
Contextual Differences

Interest in wisdom in the cognitive sciences, psychology, and education has been paralleled by conceptual confusions about its nature and assessment. To clarify these issues and promote consensus in the field, wisdom researchers met in Toronto in July of 2019, resolving disputes through discussion. Guided by a survey of scientists who study wisdom-related constructs, we established a common wisdom model, observing that empirical approaches to wisdom converge on the morally-grounded application of metacognition to reasoning and problem-solving. After outlining the function of relevant metacognitive and moral processes, we critically evaluate existing empirical approaches to measurement and offer recommendations for best practices. In the subsequent sections, we use the common wisdom model to selectively review evidence about the role of individual differences for development and manifestation of wisdom, approaches to wisdom development and training, as well as cultural, subcultural, and social-contextual differences. We conclude by discussing wisdom’s conceptual overlap with a host of other constructs and outline unresolved conceptual and methodological challenges.

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