“Made Me Feel Connected”: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Intimate Partner Violence Routine Screening Pathways to Impact

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 334-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Spangaro ◽  
Jane Koziol-McLain ◽  
Alison Rutherford ◽  
Anthony B. Zwi
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Continuity Of Care ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Routine Screening ◽  
Abused Women

Intimate partner violence (IPV) routine screening is widely implemented, yet the evidence for pathways to impact remains unclear. Of the 32 abused women interviewed 16 weeks after antenatal IPV screening, 24 reported positive impact, six reported nil positive impact, and two reported negative impact. Using qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), key conditions for positive impact were care in asking, and support and validation from the midwife. Lack of these and lack of continuity of care were relevant to nil positive impact. Benefits included naming the abuse, connection, unburdening, taking steps to safety, and enabling informed care. Disclosure was not required for positive impact.

Preschoolers’ Intimate Partner Violence Exposure and Their Speeded Control Abilities Eight Years Later: A Longitudinal Mediation Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110358
Author(s):  
Hannah M. Clark ◽  
Andrew C. Grogan-Kaylor ◽  
Maria M. Galano ◽  
Sara F. Stein ◽  
Sandra A. Graham-Bermann
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Sensitive Period ◽  
Late Childhood ◽  
Targeted Prevention ◽  
Environmental Threats

Executive functioning (EF), or a set of related cognitive skills that facilitate goal-oriented behavior, is a critical aspect of adaptive development. Mounting research indicates that exposure to environmental threats during the preschool years jeopardizes EF; however, the extent and mechanisms through which early exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) influences children’s EF are unknown. Using data from an eight-year longitudinal investigation of mothers who had experienced IPV and their preschool-aged children (N = 120), this study examined the relative influence of recent and remote IPV exposure on speeded control—a component of EF influenced by processing speed—in late childhood. Results indicated that preschoolers’ IPV exposure had a significant negative impact on their speeded control eight years later, and this relation was mediated by the remote effects of IPV on their mothers. Specifically, IPV was positively associated with maternal depression, which in turn contributed to greater use of negative parenting strategies when children were of preschool age. Children’s IPV exposure during late childhood was not predictive of their concurrent speeded control. These findings lend further evidence to the notion that the preschool years are a sensitive period for the mastery of EF skills and that IPV exposure is a distinct risk factor that can have protracted effects on children’s cognitive development. Further, this study points to modifiable environmental risk factors, which, through targeted prevention and intervention efforts, could promote EF across the lifespan.

scholarly journals Social Entrapment Evidence: Understanding Its Role in Self-Defence Cases Involving Intimate Partner Violence

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Douglas ◽  
Stella Tarrant ◽  
Julia Tolmie
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Abused Women ◽  
Safety Planning ◽  
Expert Evidence ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
Self Defence

This article considers what evidence juries need to help them apply the defence of self-defence where a woman claims she has killed an abusive partner to save her own life. Drawing on recent research and cases we argue that expert evidence admitted in these types of cases generally fails to provide evidence about the nature of abuse, the limitations in the systemic safety responses and the structural inequality that abused women routinely face. Evidence of the reality of the woman’s safety options, including access to, and the realistic support offered by, services such as police, housing, childcare, safety planning and financial support should be presented. In essence, juries need evidence about what has been called social entrapment so they can understand how women’s safety options are deeply intertwined with their degree of danger and therefore with the question of whether their response (of killing their abuser) was necessary based on reasonable grounds. We consider the types of evidence that may be important in helping juries understand the concept and particular circumstances of social entrapment, including the role of experts in this context.

Animal Maltreatment in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence: A Manifestation of Power and Control?

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (15) ◽  
pp. 1806-1828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy J. Fitzgerald ◽  
Betty Jo Barrett ◽  
Rochelle Stevenson ◽  
Chi Ho Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Abused Women ◽  
Animal Abuse ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Using Data ◽  
And Control ◽  
Animal Neglect

This study tests the theoretically informed assumption that intimate partner violence (IPV) and animal abuse so frequently co-occur because animal maltreatment is instrumentalized by abusers to harm human victims. Using data from a survey of abused women in Canadian shelters, we find that threats to harm “pets,” emotional animal abuse, and animal neglect are clearly perceived by these survivors as being intentionally perpetrated by their abuser and motivated by a desire to upset and control them; the findings related to physical animal abuse are not as straightforward. Building on these findings, we propose a more nuanced theorizing of the coexistence of animal maltreatment and IPV.

Bruised and Battered: Reinforcing Intimate Partner Violence in Comic Books

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 584-611
Author(s):  
Tammy S. Garland ◽  
Christina Policastro ◽  
Kathryn A. Branch ◽  
Brandy B. Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Book Series

Previous studies have examined intimate partner violence (IPV) in popular culture; however, little attention has been given to the presence of domestic violence myths in comic books. Using a convenience sample taken from popular comic book series, this content analysis examines the prevalence of IPV and the myths used to justify such portrayals. Findings indicate that the reinforcement of IPV through myths is clearly evident within mainstream comic books. Discussion of the negative impact of the acceptance and reinforcement of IPV myths is addressed.

scholarly journals Assessment of intimate partner violence abuse ratings by recently abused and never abused women

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen E. Straus ◽  
Elizabeth H. Guonjian ◽  
Errick Christian ◽  
Rebecca R. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Abused Women
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