Inequalities and Contextual Conflict

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Owen ◽  
James Wells ◽  
Joycelyn Pollock
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Prison Life ◽  
Women's Imprisonment

Chapter 5 explores the contextual context of the inequality of women’s imprisonment as it creates and sustains conflict. Individualized vulnerabilities and components of prison capital combine to create this gendered context for trouble. Forms of gendered violence are connected to economic, social, and cultural demands of prison life. Troubled relationships inside often reproduce patterns of interpersonal violence reflect women’s pathways. Much of the violence in prison is embedded in these conflicted relationships in the form of interpersonal or domestic violence.

Violence, Storytelling, and World-Making in Song

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Marie Stirr
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
Narrative Forms ◽  
The Village

This chapter examines belonging in light of gendered violence, hope, and aspirations, as experienced in the dohori field and performed in dohori songs. Set among professional dohori singers who have toured throughout Nepal and internationally, it is an examination of domestic violence remembered, the difficulties involved in speaking about it, and the performance practices and narrative forms that enable individuals to navigate the intimate politics of family relations at the intersection of public and private, and articulate potential alternatives to norms. As the final ethnographic chapter, this chapter returns to the village dohori songfest as a central site for singers’ performed expression, closing the circle of migration and mobility for a moment in time, as long as the song goes on.

What are the costs of violence?

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anke Hoeffler
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Global Cost ◽  
One Year ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
The Cost

This article presents estimates of the global cost of collective and interpersonal violence for the period of one year. This includes war, terrorism, homicides, assaults and domestic violence against women and children. The cost of conventionally defined interpersonal violence, that is, homicides and assault, are about 7.5 times higher than the cost due to war and terrorism. I also estimate the costs of non-fatal domestic violence against children and women and suggest that these costs are much higher than the combined costs of homicide, assault, terrorism and war. The main reason is that the prevalence of these types of violence is very high: possibly as many as 16 per cent of all children are punished using violent methods and about 12 per cent of all women experience intimate partner violence. Richer societies have lower levels of violence, and there is evidence that prevalence rates have been declining over time. However, it is often unclear why this is the case. Much of the evidence from violence reducing interventions comes from high-income countries, and it is uncertain whether these programs would be similarly effective in low- and middle-income countries. However, although further research is needed to examine the effectiveness of violence-reducing interventions, it appears likely that some interventions would constitute a very effective use of resources.

Exposure to Interpersonal Violence as a Predictor of PTSD Symptomatology in Domestic Violence Survivors

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 936-954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sascha Griffing ◽  
Carla S. Lewis ◽  
Melissa Chu ◽  
Robert E. Sage ◽  
Lorraine Madry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Domestic Violence Survivors ◽  
Ptsd Symptomatology

In Search of Safety

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Owen ◽  
James Wells ◽  
Joycelyn Pollock
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Cumulative Disadvantage ◽  
Women's Prisons ◽  
Women In Prison ◽  
Women's Imprisonment ◽  
Human Rights Standards ◽  
Gendered Harm

Based on extensive mixed-methods data, this book examines gendered violence and conflict in women’s prisons. Conflict and violence in the prison are located in intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantage, reflecting their pathways to prison. Women in prison share common characteristics, many mediated by structural, historical, and cumulative disadvantage. T pathways approach is expanded to include women’s experience within these structural clusters of intersectional inequalities. In their search for safety, women must negotiate these inequities through developing forms of prison capital. The history and philosophies underpinning women’s imprisonment, the gendered impact of prison and drug policy, and the variations in rates of imprisonment for differentially-situated women are also used to contextualizes the imprisonment of women. Prison conditions, aggravated by crowding, inadequate medical and mental health care and the lack of gender-informed operational practice, contribute to the gendered harm of imprisonment. A women’s search for safety is described through the lens of prison capital, forms of human, social and cultural capital women leverage to combat the gendered harm of imprisonment. Forms of capital combine with the intersectional inequality of imprisonment to condition the context for trouble and harm among women and with staff. The harm of women’s imprisonment can be located in human rights violations inside. The way forward is found in implementing international human rights standards in U. S. prisons, focusing on the promise of the Bangkok Rules.

Interpersonal Violence

2018 ◽  
pp. 84-95
Author(s):  
Dawn Crosswhite ◽  
Johnny S. Kim ◽  
Stacey Anne Williams
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Behavioral Change ◽  
Global Information ◽  
The Impact

This chapter presents an overview on interpersonal violence and how SFBT can be used with clients who have experienced violence as an adult or child. Along with a description of the various forms of interpersonal violence, global information on the prevalence of interpersonal and domestic violence is presented. The impact and consequences of interpersonal violence that many victims, in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships, experience is discussed. A case example where the client was the perpetrator rather than a victim is provided to demonstrate how SFBT approach can be used with clients who are typically forced into more problem-focused or punitive approaches to behavioral change.

Routine Activities and Involvement in Violence as Actor, Witness, or Target

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Felson
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Risk Factor ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Routine Activities ◽  
Routine Activity ◽  
Family Obligations ◽  
Witnessing Violence

This research examines the effects of an active “night life” on involvement in interpersonal violence as either an actor, a witness, or a target. The results show that males with an active night life are more likely to witness as well as participate in violent encounters, whereas an active night life is not a risk factor for females. The fact that night life affects witnessing violence, and engaging in nondomestic but not domestic violence, supports a routine activity approach over other explanations. The results also show that young men, and men without family obligations, are more likely to be involved in nondomestic violence, in part because they go out at night more frequently.

Prevalence of Interpersonal Violence Among Latinas: A Systematic Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 977-990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances R. Gonzalez ◽  
Lorraine T. Benuto ◽  
Jena B. Casas
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Prevalence Rates ◽  
Type Of Abuse

Violence against women continues to be a great concern in today’s society. In the United States, women experience high rates of interpersonal violence throughout their lifetime. Among Latinas, interpersonal violence is also highly prevalent however the wide variation of interpersonal prevalence rates among Latinas is problematic. The aims of this systematic review of the literature were to (1) document the prevalence rates of violence among Latinas, (2) determine the types of violence that Latinas are most impacted by, and (3) assess the prevalence rates of interpersonal across Latina subethnicities. The research was based on seven databases including PsycArticles, PsycCRITIQUES, PsycINFO, ScienceDirect, Social Services Abstracts, Social Work Abstracts, and PubMED for articles published from January 2007 up to July 2017. The following key words were used in the search: (Latinas OR Latinos OR Hispanics) AND (victim OR victimization) AND (domestic violence OR intimate partner violence OR Interpersonal Violence). We identified 41 articles in our search that reported rates of interpersonal violence which ranged from 1% to 83% with intimate partner violence and domestic violence being the most prevalent. Interpersonal violence was found to be more prevalent among individuals who identified as Mexican. Based on the findings, it is clear that efforts should be focused on conducting a lager national survey of interpersonal violence among Latinas. It would need to include subethnicity, immigration status, and type of abuse experienced and possibly add socioeconomic factors.

Gendered violence and the self

2018 ◽  
pp. 79-112
Author(s):  
Suzanne Franzway ◽  
Nicole Moulding ◽  
Sarah Wendt ◽  
Carole Zufferey ◽  
Donna Chung
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
The Self ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Explanatory Concept

This chapter is devoted to questions about why intimate partner violence is understood in terms of its psychological impact on individual women. It suggests alternative ways that the serious psychological and emotional impact of intimate partner violence might be understood and addressed so that policy and practice may be more beneficial. The notion of coercive control has become an important explanatory concept, exposing how intimate partner violence is almost always experienced as repeated, patterned violence, intimidation, isolation, and fear. This chapter shows how gendered discourses, practices, and power relations that are embedded in domestic violence erode women's sense of themselves as persons, and hence their capabilities to exercise their citizenship.

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