Pub Date : 2024-07-08DOI: 10.53841/bpspowe.2024.7.1.20
Amy Beddows, Ankita Mishra
This paper explores the need for a wider understanding of men’s violence against women, specifically coercive control, and the extent to which this far-ranging pattern of domination, exploitation, and dehumanisation is enacted beyond individual abusers. Men who engage in coercive control also manipulate agencies and professionals (in healthcare and criminal justice services as well as other sectors) as another medium through which they can harm their partners. Simultaneously, these agencies enact various forms of control and restriction over women who are trying to access support, mirroring and amplifying men’s abuse and further reducing women’s space for action (Kelly et al, 2014). This enmeshment of abusers and professionals makes it harder for women to escape violence and rebuild their lives, especially women from marginalised backgrounds and minoritised identities.This reflective piece draws on the research and practice experience of its authors to challenge the pervasive misunderstanding of coercive control as an episodic, interpersonal process rather than a course of events (Lombard & Proctor, 2023) which can also be enacted through agencies, institutions, and systems. We argue that professionals can inadvertently be part of the ‘conducive context’ for coercive control (Kelly, 2007), impeding meaningful attempts to address the devastating and widespread impacts of men’s violence against women.
本文探讨了更广泛地了解男性对女性施暴（尤其是胁迫控制）的必要性，以及这种支配、剥削和非人化的广泛模式在施暴者个人之外的影响程度。实施胁迫性控制的男性还操纵机构和专业人员（医疗保健和刑事司法服务以及其他部门），将其作为伤害伴侣的另一种手段。与此同时，这些机构对试图获得支持的女性实施各种形式的控制和限制，反映并放大了男性的虐待行为，进一步缩小了女性的行动空间（Kelly et al，2014）。这篇反思性文章借鉴了作者的研究和实践经验，对胁迫性控制这一普遍存在的误解提出质疑，认为胁迫性控制是一个偶发的、人际交往的过程，而不是一个事件的过程（Lombard & Proctor, 2023），它也可以通过机构、制度和系统来实施。我们认为，专业人员可能会无意中成为胁迫性控制的 "有利环境 "的一部分（Kelly，2007 年），从而阻碍了解决男性暴力侵害妇女的破坏性和广泛影响的有意义的尝试。
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Pub Date : 2024-07-08DOI: 10.53841/bpspowe.2024.7.1.62
Mónica Sánchez Hernández
With decades of knowledge within the domestic abuse sector, Jo Todd is the leader of one of the UK’s most respected organisations in the Work With Perpetrators sector: Respect. Established as a membership organisation, Respect sums more than 23 years of promoting “safe, effective work with perpetrators, male victims and young people who use violence” with the aim of tackling domestic abuse and centering the victim-survivor experience.Recently, Jo Todd was awarded with the “Commander of the British Empire” (CBE) medal for her highly-distinguished, innovative contribution around services to victims of domestic abuse. The award though, has not removed any humility from Jo. In early September, I happily engaged in a rich conversation with a strong, grounded woman that I am sure more than one can find inspiration from. For this special issue, our discussion delved into the role and actuality of work with perpetrators and coercive control, highlighting the significance for the victims-survivors, the meanings of justice regarding coercive control and the implications of its criminalisation. Finally, we ended our conversation imagining the dreamt, but also the real, future of the issue.Mónica Sánchez Hernández:Thank you very much Jo for joining me today to talk about your experience and your thoughts about coercive control. You must be really proud of your recent award. Regardless of any colonial/imperial connotations that the CBE medal might have, it must be good to have your work acknowledged — especially in the current times.Well, I’d like to begin the interview by asking you what triggered your interest to move from supporting survivors to the “dark side” of working with perpetrators. Is there any particular moment, any experience that you remember?
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Pub Date : 2024-07-08DOI: 10.53841/bpspowe.2024.7.1.69
Nikki Moore, Peter Branney, Lisa Edwards
Contributions:Oluyemisi OjofeitmiBackground:Research and policy traditionally focus on female victim-survivors of domestic abuse. Therefore, behaviour change approaches for male perpetrators of abuse look at the same, rather than focusing on the root cause of the problem — men who use abusive behaviours. This systematic review aimed to identify studies that characterise entrapment behaviours and how male perpetrators describe those behaviours.Method:The review used a systematic meta-analysis design, conducting an electronic search via databases with a two-stage strategy employed to locate literature and pinpoint key themes and concepts to explore coercive control and male entrapment behaviours of domestic abuse. The protocol was pre-registered on PROSPERO. Nine articles were identified within the review as being of interest, and this paper provides a narrative synthesis which details the results of the systematic review.Results:The narrative synthesis identified unities between some articles, which were labelled as commonalities. There are four commonalities: male behaviour, coercive control, charm and charisma and power. Critically the review only returned one article directly examining male behaviours of entrapment, with the findings still valid a decade later, but shows more research needs to be built upon this.Conclusion:This review showed that male behaviour within domestic abuse is chronically under-researched, and behaviours utilised by male perpetrators of abuse to entrap and coercively control a female partner need further investigation, but that charm and power is an area of interest.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-08DOI: 10.53841/bpspowe.2024.7.1.5
Aaron Sylvian
Legislation criminalising coercive control in intimate relationships is being considered in Australia. Currently, there is no consensus on the contents of such legislation, let alone an understanding of how coercive control manifests in LGBTQ+ relationships, and even less data specifically concerning transgender relationships to inform this legislation. This article aims to review what is known so that before legislation is drafted, its effects on transgender people can be considered to make sure that their unique requirements are addressed. Targeted research on the experiences of coercive control in transgender people’s relationships is necessary to ensure their perspectives are considered in national legal responses. In addition, recommendations will be made for how to avoid further disadvantages for transgender people.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-08DOI: 10.53841/bpspowe.2024.7.1.40
Siouxsie Bytheway
Polly Neate is the CEO of Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity, and was previously the CEO of Women’s Aid from 2013 to 2017. Under her leadership Women’s Aid campaigned for, and helped bring legislation criminalising coercive and controlling behaviours in intimate and family relationships into law in England and Wales with The Serious Crime Act 2015. She has sat on several panels advising on domestic abuse in the UK, and is a regular commentator on women’s rights and social justice issues.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-08DOI: 10.53841/bpspowe.2024.7.1.85
E. Katz, Harriet Bromley
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Pub Date : 2024-07-08DOI: 10.53841/bpspowe.2024.7.1.45
Jo Neale
Domestic violence and abuse (DVA) is under-reported, under-prosecuted and under-convicted. The apparent ineffectiveness of policy approaches in reducing the incidence of DVA, or mitigating its social and economic costs, forms the backcloth of my enquiry.I explore the processes by which heterosexual women enter, endure, and leave abusive relationships. Using narrative-style interviews, I worked with 14 women with a wide range of characteristics in terms of age, ethnicity, physicality, and socio-economic status.I examine the space between normalised heterosexual relationships and abuse. I shine a spotlight on the full range of perpetrators’ behaviours that entrap and oppress their female partners, and identify four key domains in which the coercive tactics of the abuser work to: Ensnare his victim; dismantle her previous identities; prevent her from leaving the relationship; and punish her for leaving.From a feminist poststructuralist perspective, participants’ experiences of entering, enduring and exiting abusive relationships can be read as part of the wider cultural scaffolding (Gavey, 2019) of heteropatriarchy, which left them exposed to ensnarement and exploitation. Using dark triad (Paulhus, 2014) as a model for conceptualising perpetrators’ manipulation of their ex-partners, their children, and professionals, I offer an alternative to traditional psychology’s way of understanding men’s abuse of their female partners.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-08DOI: 10.53841/bpspowe.2024.7.1.2
Tanya Frances, Emma L Turley, Lois C Donnelly
{"title":"Coercive control: A decade later","authors":"Tanya Frances, Emma L Turley, Lois C Donnelly","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2024.7.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2024.7.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":498217,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"122 43","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141667462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.53841/bpspowe.2023.6.2.5
Laiba Husain, Trish Greenhalgh
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