scholarly journals Rejecting and retaining aspects of selfhood: Constructing desistance from abuse as a ‘masculine’ endeavour

2022 ◽  
pp. 174889582110703
Author(s):  
David Morran
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
The Past ◽  
Abusive Behaviour

Evaluative studies of men who have attended domestic violence perpetrator programmes have, thus far, paid attention to the question of what they are expected to desist from. This is entirely appropriate. However, the question of what they are expected to achieve, or ‘become’, is less clearly articulated, indeed often overlooked. Based on a series of interviews with men who had completed perpetrator programmes, the narratives explored in this articles suggest that their abusive behaviour was underpinned by fears about how to ‘perform masculinity’ satisfactorily in the past. Consequentially, the programme experience was perceived as threatening or as ‘feminising’. However, the accounts of these men suggest that in desisting from abusive behaviour, issues of identity and processes of behaviour change remain profoundly gendered. Indeed, committing to desistance is perceived as something of an ‘heroic struggle’ in which qualities associated with being a ‘proper man’ are harnessed and utilised in the process.

scholarly journals ‘It’s a work in progress’: men’s accounts of gender and change in their use of coercive control

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Downes ◽  
Liz Kelly ◽  
Nicole Westmarland
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Criminal Offence ◽  
Coercive Control ◽  
Masculine Norms ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
The Past ◽  
Letting Go ◽  
Domestic Violence Perpetrators

Over the past ten years the theoretical framework of ‘coercive control’ has been increasingly applied, critiqued and now underpins a criminal offence. While many argue that it more accurately reflects experiences of victimisation, there has been little exploration of coercive control through the accounts of perpetrators. Through two phased interviews with 64 men attending UK Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programmes, we examine how and why men use coercive tactics and how unpicking gender norms enabled some men to recognise and reduce their use of coercive control. We argue that coercive control is more dynamic, contestable and open to change than previous research has suggested. Some men did manage to take steps away from investing in traditional masculine norms and reduce their use of coercive tactics. However, this was an uneven and contradictory process which took time ‐ involving painful realisations of loss and harm alongside a discovery of the benefits associated with letting go of restrictive gender norms. Understanding how and why men invest in or dismantle gender norms that underpin coercive control has important implications for theory and for practice, particularly the content and focus of work with domestic violence perpetrators.

scholarly journals Domestic violence policies in the Netherlands: A regime of deficiency

2020 ◽  
pp. 146349962095885
Author(s):  
Arne Mellaard ◽  
Toon van Meijl
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Technical Problem ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Impact

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.

Extent and Implications of the Presentation of False Facts by Domestic Violence Agencies in the United States

Partner Abuse ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise A. Hines
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Coalition

The problem of domestic violence (DV) agencies presenting statistics that are distortions or have no basis in research has been pointed out by several DV researchers in the past several years. However, the extent of this problem is unknown. The purpose of this study was to evaluate how frequently 15 identified false facts were presented on DV agencies’ websites in their fact sheets. All member agencies of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV;N= 2,180) were investigated to see if they have websites and fact sheets on their websites. The fact sheets were then examined to see whether they presented any of the 15 false facts. The most frequently mentioned false fact was, “According to the FBI, a woman is beaten every (fill in the blank) seconds in the United States,” presented by 34.9% of the agencies with fact sheets. Results are discussed in terms of their limitations and their implications for the field of DV, paying particular attention to how the proliferation of these false facts may undermine the credibility of the DV field and also harm the very people the agencies are trying to help.

How Pornography May Distort Risk Assessment of Children and Adolescents Who Sexually Harm

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 232-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Pratt ◽  
Cyra Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Causal Relationship ◽  
The Past ◽  
Length Of Treatment ◽  
Sexually Abusive ◽  
Pornography Consumption ◽  
Assessment And Treatment ◽  
Abusive Behaviour

Over the past three decades, an accepted “given” of adolescent sexually abusive behaviour assessment and treatment has been that the more serious the sexual acts committed, the more entrenched that adolescent's behaviours are likely to be, with a likely progression from minor assaults through to more serious, intrusive acts. We assume youth engaging in the sexually abusive behaviour may have become both desensitised to the harm they are causing, whilst needing to engage in more severe offences to gain the level of arousal originally achieved through lesser acts. This conceptualisation suggests a somewhat causal relationship between the duration of the sexually abusive behaviour; the severity of the behaviour and the length of treatment required to manage and treat the issue.Has pornography consumption potentially impacted the assessment and treatment of youth who sexually harm? Does a relationship exist between the severity and the entrenchment of the sexually assaultive acts committed, or has viewing pornography and re-enacting what has been viewed altered this relationship? This article explores a number of these themes and questions.

At the Research Front: Cognition and Behaviour Change

1980 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Cameron ◽  
Donald Meichenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Research Front ◽  
Behaviour Modification ◽  
Related Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cognitive Behaviour ◽  
Treatment Procedures

For the past decade we have been attempting to understand the role of cognition in psychopathology and behaviour modification. The purpose of the present paper is to highlight and discuss what we consider to be some of the most important findings and issues that have emerged. While many other investigators are conducting related research, we have limited our review and discussion to work conducted by Meichenbaum and his colleagues. The research program and the field in general have been reviewed in more detail by Meichenbaum (1977). See an annual newsletter on cognitive-behaviour modification for further detailed reviews (Meichenbaum, 1975–1979). Initially, we were interested in developing and evaluating treatment procedures that blended cognitive and behavioural components. While this work continued, we have become interested in attempting to formulate an integrative model of behaviour change (Meichenbaum, 1977). The following review and discussion will describe the research program that led us to highlight the role of cognition in behaviour change.

scholarly journals Domestic Violence in Immigrant Communities: Case Studies (Arabic)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferzana Chaze ◽  
Bethany J. (Bethany Joy) Osborne ◽  
Archana Medhekar ◽  
Purnima George
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Legal Case ◽  
Case Files ◽  
One Year

This document contains excerpts from the book Domestic Violence in Immigrant Communities: Case Studies by Dr. Ferzana Chaze, Dr. Bethany Osborne, Ms. Archana Medhekar and Dr. Purnima George that have been translated into Arabic so that a wider audience can access them. The book is a freely accessible educational resource to be used in training with social work and legal practitioners. The translated case studies in this document are real life stories of immigrant women who have experienced domestic violence in Canada. The cases emerged from closed legal case files handled by Archana Medhekar Law Office and reflect the stories of racialized immigrant women who experienced domestic violence in Canada and who sought legal help. Permission to carry out this research was received from the Research Ethics Board of both Ryerson University and Sheridan College in June 2019. All cases included in this research took place within the past ten years and were closed for at least one year prior to the start of the research. In addition to the case studies, included are questions for discussion with community groups on the topic of domestic violence. We hope you will find this tool useful as you engage your communities on issues around domestic violence.

scholarly journals The Austrian Act on the Protection against Domestic Violence

Temida ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albin Dearing
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
General Public ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Impact

The past few years have seen a fundamental and broadly based change in the response to domestic violence perpetrated by men against women. The Act on Protection against Domestic Violence which entered into force on May 1st, 1997 reflects this new orientation, or rather this shift in paradigm, which has led to a new understanding of the phenomenon of domestic violence and defines appropriate response by the state by it. The impact of this shift in paradigm is considerable: not only have public authorities and private women?s institutions changed their attitudes towards domestic violence, but the general public now responds to this phenomenon in a manner that is entirely different from what it was prior to the approach. Reports on cases of violence no longer merely state the facts indifferently, but now invariably end with the question whether the authorities had been informed and whether they had taken any action to prevent the crime. Thus the public authorities have come to assume responsibility for combating domestic violence as a result of societal developments.

Women’s Health

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne T. Shuster ◽  
Deborah J. Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Internal Medicine ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Coronary Heart Disease ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
The Past

The science and practice of women's health have evolved considerably during the past 15 years. Increasingly, internal medicine physicians are expected to manage diseases and conditions unique to women (like menstruation, menopause, and pregnancy), more prevalent (contraception, infertility, breast conditions) or more serious in women, or for which risk factors or interventions are different in women than in men (coronary heart disease). Domestic violence issues are also reviewed.

The Power of Bipartisan Mobilization: The Success of Tunisia’s Feminist Movement During the Coronavirus Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Maro Youssef ◽  
Sarah Yerkes
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Coalition Formation ◽  
Democratic Transition ◽  
The State ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Domestic Violence Shelter ◽  
The Past ◽  
Gender Based

Abstract The Tunisian government, which is deeply divided, especially along ideological lines, responded to growing concerns over increased violence against women during the Coronavirus pandemic by establishing a new domestic violence shelter and 24/7 hotline. This article asks: Why did the state respond to gender-based violence(gbv) concerns during the Coronavirus pandemic in Tunisia, despite ideological and political divisions? We argue that the state addressed some concerns around violence during the pandemic because combatting gbv has bipartisan support in Tunisia. Tunisian Islamist and secularist women’s rights organizations succeeded in building a bipartisan coalition of support on this issue because they worked either together in a short-lived coalition or in tandem with similar goals over the past decade during the democratic transition in Tunisia. Building on the existing coalition literature, we show that feminist coalition formation before a pandemic has implications for feminists’ success in times of crisis.

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