Why does LGBTQ IPV Happen?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam M. Messinger
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Factor ◽  
Psychological Traits ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Ipv Perpetration ◽  
Future Policy

This chapter examines theories of LGBTQ IPV perpetration and the degree to which they are supported by evidence. These theories are divided into several categories: perpetration theories that are shared between HC and LGBTQ IPV (including theories focused on socialization, power imbalances, dependency, self-justifications, and psychological traits), contested perpetration theories regarding gender (including evidence supporting competing views in the literature that gender is a relevant factor for neither HC nor LGBTQ IPV, only HC but not LGBTQ IPV, or both HC and LGBTQ IPV), and perpetration theories unique to LGBTQ IPV (including theories regarding experiencing discrimination, internalizing discriminatory attitudes, and degree of outness). Relatedly, this chapter also examines barriers to escape for victims (including not recognizing IPV, dependency, fear, and hurdles in reaching out for help). Finally, this chapter exposes barriers that are making it more difficult to see the big picture of why LGBTQ IPV happens (including fears of excusing abusers and blaming victims, challenges in distinguishing causes from outcomes, and doubts over whether there are one or multiple explanations of IPV). Ultimately, this chapter emphasizes the complexity of IPV and calls for more population-specific theorizing. The chapter concludes with implications for future policy, practice, and research.

scholarly journals Water Theft Maleficence in Australia

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Baird ◽  
Reece Walters ◽  
Rob White
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Criminological Perspective ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
Human Conflict ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
Critical Overview

The United Nations has repeatedly identified that freshwater security is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and that water theft is a global problem exacerbating human conflict, denying human rights and accelerating environmental despoliation (UN 2019; UN Water 2020). Australia is the world’s driest inhabited continent where water security is seriously threatened and constantly monitored by federal, state and local authorities. The devastating 2019-2020 bushfires across Australia serve as a stark reminder of the nation’s vulnerabilities to drought and the imperatives of water security and sustainability. Whilst some threats are undoubtedly climate induced, it is widely reported the ‘theft’ of water is playing an increasingly significant role in compromising Australia’s water security. This article provides a critical overview of the contemporary significance of water theft and its governance. It interrogates official documents of government inquiries, examines court proceedings, and provides a green criminological perspective on future policy, practice and prevention.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam M. Messinger
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
English Language ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Language Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Future Policy

This chapter invites readers into the hidden world of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, and queer (LGBTQ) people. It begins by debunking common myths of LGBTQ IPV, myths that have been shaped in part by homophobia, transphobia, and a historic emphasis on heterosexual-cisgender (HC) relationships in the global IPV-prevention movement. Unfortunately, even today, these myths contribute to systemic failings in how LGBTQ IPV is addressed throughout the world. Collectively, these myths and the lack of concrete support for LGBTQ victims have rendered LGBTQ IPV largely invisible. This chapter—and, indeed, the book—contends that many answers to this problem actually already exist in research, if only they could be extracted. With this in mind, the goal of this book is to comprehensively review the past forty years of LGBTQ IPV English-language research from throughout the world—the first book to do so. Just as significantly, the book mines this literature for evidence-based tips regarding future policy, practice, and research, tips that are shared at the close of each chapter. This introductory chapter concludes with a brief guide to the upcoming chapters and the terminology used throughout the book.

Identifying Instructional Targets for Early Childhood via Authentic Assessment

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Bagnato ◽  
Mary McLean ◽  
Marisa Macy ◽  
John T. Neisworth
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Authentic Assessment ◽  
Early Childhood Intervention ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Childhood Intervention ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
Innovative Capacity

Now at middle age, the field of Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) and its professionals have demonstrated a unique capacity to develop their own practice-based evidence (PBE) and professional standards to forge solutions to challenging professional practice dilemmas. This innovative capacity is no more evident than in designing and implementing individualized linkages among assessment/instruction/progress evaluation for all children, particularly those with delays and disabilities. In this article, the authors advocate for the overarching purpose of assessment in ECI—to identify instructional targets and to plan beneficial programs for young children with special needs in inclusive, natural environments. The authors highlight major developments that have changed their professional practices since the passage of PL 99-457; PBE that supports and promotes these practices and the linkage among assessment, instruction, and progress evaluation; and critical issues for future policy, practice, and research.

scholarly journals An Ecological Perspective on Reading Development: a Theoretical Framework to Guide Empirical Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Neirouz Nadori
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Model ◽  
Reading Development ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Developing Readers ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
Reading Skill Development

<p>Recent efforts have addressed the new challenges related to conceptualizing, understanding and improving reading competency. Several literacy researchers have perceived reading as a developmental skill that is not situated exclusively within student’s cognition, or within family processes, or within classroom or school processes. Rather, reading development has been viewed as a result of the dynamic interaction among reader, family, classroom, and school system (Jaeger, 2017). Following on from this, systems theory approach and more specifically the ecological model allows for the examination of reading skill development from a holistic perspective. It provides an inclusive frame for describing and explaining how the educational opportunities are distributed at the micro, meso, exo, and macro systems and how these systems interact to explain students’ reading differences amon. It also delineates how developing readers’ individual characteristics transact with both proximal and distal processes to craft their reading ecologies. Future policy, practice and research are recommended to be based on the ecological model premises to have a comprehensive view of reading development.</p>

How Can we Improve Government Responses?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam M. Messinger
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Prevention And Intervention ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Help Giving ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explores government-based responses to LGBTQ IPV. The chapter begins by discussing the impact of laws on the abilities of LGBTQ IPV victims to seek help, such as laws governing the right to be LGBTQ, the right to marry, and the right to adopt children. With this as context, the chapter turns to two key government-based help-giving resources (HGRs)—law enforcement and courts—detailing specific strengths and shortcomings in how each of them addresses LGBTQ IPV. The chapter then looks at prevention and intervention efforts regarding LGBTQ IPV, with a particular eye toward challenges in applying resources designed for heterosexual-cisgender people to LGBTQ populations. The chapter concludes with implications for future policy, practice, and research.

scholarly journals Where Are We Going? International Views on Purposes, Practices and Barriers in School-Based Outdoor Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 311
Author(s):  
Sue Waite
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Adventure Education ◽  
International Comparisons ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Outdoor Learning ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
School Based ◽  
Future Policy

Popular demand for school-based outdoor learning is growing throughout the world, but there is relatively little use of international comparisons to inform the development and support of this growth. Motivations for providing outdoor learning may vary within and across countries/areas. Through understanding how different purposes are being approached internationally, we can learn how outdoor learning might best be supported to achieve particular outcomes. Eighty expert commentators on outdoor learning from 19 countries/areas responded to a short online survey about motivations for and practices in school-based outdoor learning, based on their experience working in this field. The survey was designed using a conceptual framework of student outcomes from outdoor learning, derived from policy analysis and five major reviews of the field. The three most frequently reported forms of outdoor learning practiced in schools were field studies, early years outdoor activities, and outdoor and adventure education. Among identified purposes for outdoor learning provision within schooling, supporting environmental awareness and action and pupil health and well-being were the most common. Some alignment of forms of outdoor learning and specific outcomes are discussed and implications for future policy, practice, and research considered.

How Can we Improve Nongovernmental Responses?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam M. Messinger
Keyword(s):  
Support Groups ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Provider Training ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Help Giving ◽  
Potential Damage ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
Medical Healthcare ◽  
Successes And Challenges ◽  
Service Advertising

Chapters 5 and 6 shine a spotlight on the help-giving resources (HGRs) used by LGBTQ IPV victims, which can provide much-needed assistance in coping with and escaping abuse. This chapter focuses in particular on those HGRs that are not exclusively employees of or departments within governments: friends, family, neighbors, religious organizations, support groups, mental and medical healthcare providers, and IPV victim organizations (such as telephone hotlines, shelters, and multiservice IPV agencies). This chapter examines which of these HGR types are most likely to be sought out for help by LGBTQ IPV victims, as well as how helpful they are perceived to be. From there, the chapter delves into detailed research on each nongovernmental HGR type, highlighting both successes and challenges resulting from serving LGBTQ IPV victims. Recurring themes include the potential damage inflicted on victims by HGRs that do not show respect for victimization experiences and LGBTQ identities, as well as the consequences of asking LGBTQ victims to utilize resources originally designed for HC IPV victims (with service advertising, victim screening, service content, provider training, and victim referrals at times erroneously treating IPV as a one-size-fits-all phenomenon). The chapter concludes with implications for future policy, practice, and research.

What is LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam M. Messinger
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Minority ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Population Estimates ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Future Policy

This chapter synthesizes research on the nature of LGBTQ IPV, including the tactics comprising and the prevalence of each form of IPV (psychological, physical, and sexual IPV, along with intimate-partner homicide), its directionality (i.e., how common it is that one or both partners in a relationship uses IPV tactics, as well as how motivations like self-defense color the so-called mutual-battering debate), where and when it occurs, and outcomes for victims. Where possible, estimates within LGBTQ populations are broken down by sexual orientation, gender identity, trans*-cisgender identity, race and ethnicity, age, and nationality. Comparisons are likewise drawn between sexual minority and heterosexual victims as well as between trans* and cisgender victims. Given that methodological differences have the potential to substantially impact results, an effort is made to largely make apples-to-apples comparisons between similar studies (such as by comparing studies using the same IPV lifetime victimization time frame), and IPV frequency findings are divided into those emerging from probability versus non-probability sampled studies. Quantitative data in this chapter, as well as throughout the book, is leaned on for population estimates, which is then repeatedly contextualized with high-detail qualitative data. The chapter concludes with implications for future policy, practice, and research.

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