Service provider difficulties in operationalizing coercive control Iain R. Brennan, Victoria Burton, Sinéad Gormally, and Nicola O’Leary
By: Brennan, Iain R
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Contributor(s): Burton, Victoria | Gormally, Sinéad | O'Leary, Nicola.
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ArticleSeries: Violence Against Women.Publisher: Sage, 2018Subject(s): COERCIVE CONTROL | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | INTERVENTION | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | SUPPORT SERVICES | UNITED KINGDOMOnline resources: Read abstract
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Violence Against Women, 2018, Advance online publication, 21 September 2018Summary: The authors examined perspectives of social workers, police officers, and specialist domestic abuse practitioners about their perceived ability and organizational readiness to respond effectively to incidents of coercive and controlling behavior. Interviews revealed intervention and risk assessment strategies structured around an outdated, maladaptive concept of domestic abuse as an unambiguous and violent event and frontline services that lacked appreciation of the power dynamics inherent in controlling relationships. The analysis demonstrates how lack of definitional clarity around nonphysical domestic abuse can increase the use of discretion by frontline services and, by extension, increase the discounting of coercive control by pressured frontline officers. (Authors' abstract). Record #6025
Violence Against Women, 2018, Advance online publication, 21 September 2018
The authors examined perspectives of social workers, police officers, and specialist domestic abuse practitioners about their perceived ability and organizational readiness to respond effectively to incidents of coercive and controlling behavior. Interviews revealed intervention and risk assessment strategies structured around an outdated, maladaptive concept of domestic abuse as an unambiguous and violent event and frontline services that lacked appreciation of the power dynamics inherent in controlling relationships. The analysis demonstrates how lack of definitional clarity around nonphysical domestic abuse can increase the use of discretion by frontline services and, by extension, increase the discounting of coercive control by pressured frontline officers. (Authors' abstract). Record #6025
