As Technology Evolves, so Does Domestic Violence: Modern-Day Tech Abuse and Possible Solutions

PenzeyMoog, Eva; Slakoff, Danielle C.

doi:10.1108/978-1-83982-848-520211047

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“…Recognition that the features, functions, and management of technologies can at times contribute to or enable TAR is central to developing principles and infrastructure that limit the harmful use of technology. In other words, investment in efforts to minimize or stop harm through safety by design approaches is needed (PenzeyMoog & Slakoff, 2021). So too are technology-mediated mechanisms that interrupt the potentially harmful behavioral patterns of perpetrators.…”

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“…Insights into the psychological processes that lead to the enactment of TAR are needed to facilitate the development of primary prevention initiatives and guide the work of agencies that deliver perpetrator behavior change programs. Furthermore, an understanding of the tactics, ethos, and drivers of TAR is also vital to advancing "safety by design," the principles and infrastructure that limit how technology can be co-opted (PenzeyMoog & Slakoff, 2021). Addressing this gap, the aim of this study is to advance the limited knowledge of the emotions and motivations that may influence an individual to engage in TAR, from the perpetrator perspective.…”

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Perpetrator Perceptions on the Emotions and Motivations Driving Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Relationships: A Story Completion Study

Fiolet,

Brown,

McKay

et al. 2023

J Interpers Violence

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Technology-facilitated abuse in relationships (TAR) is a widespread social problem that has a significant impact on victim-survivors. Most contemporary evidence on TAR focuses on victim-survivor and practitioner perspectives rather than those of perpetrators who choose to enact this form of harm. Addressing this deficit, this study explored perpetrators’ discourses on emotions and motivations associated with engaging in TAR. Using story completion method, 35 self-identified perpetrators of TAR completed story stems describing scenarios that may precede the use of abusive online behaviors. Reflexive thematic analysis generated three themes. Abusive behaviors and negative emotions speaks to maladaptive experiences of anger and/or sadness that can precede a decision to use TAR. A loss of trust, a desire for control describes potential motives for using TAR. Finally, inhibitors of abusive behavior investigates rationales perpetrators use for avoidance of TAR behaviors, suggesting avenues for working with perpetrators to refrain from using TAR. We conclude by discussing policy, practice, and research recommendations including strategies for technology designers and suggestions for primary prevention and response to TAR.

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Perpetrator Perceptions on the Emotions and Motivations Driving Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Relationships: A Story Completion Study

Fiolet,

Brown,

McKay

et al. 2023

J Interpers Violence

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“…IPV in the US cuts across all genders, races, and social classes (Petrosky et al, 2017) and includes physical, financial, emotional, sexual, and psychological abuse (Larsen, 2016). As technology has evolved, other forms of violence have been characterized, such as coercive control and tech-facilitated violence or cyberviolence (PenzeyMoog & Slakoff, 2021). Based on these two definitions, researchers have argued that DV is a broader term that includes IPV, elder abuse, and child abuse in a family setting or cohabitation setting involving physical violence, sexual violence, and/or emotional violence (Boserup et al, 2020), whereas IPV represents physical violence, sexual violence, or emotional violence that occurs within the family, between intimate partners in cohabitation or non-cohabitation relationships.…”

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Characterizing the Differences in Descriptions of Violence on Reddit During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Neubauer

Stewart

et al. 2023

J Interpers Violence

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Concerns have been raised over the experiences of violence such as domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social media such as Reddit represent an alternative outlet for reporting experiences of violence where healthcare access has been limited. This study analyzed seven violence-related subreddits to investigate the trends of different violence patterns from January 2018 to February 2022 to enhance the health-service providers’ existing service or provide some new perspective for existing violence research. Specifically, we collected violence-related texts from Reddit using keyword searching and identified six major types with supervised machine learning classifiers: DV, IPV, physical violence, sexual violence, emotional violence, and nonspecific violence or others. The increase rate (IR) of each violence type was calculated and temporally compared in five phases of the pandemic. The phases include one pre-pandemic phase ( Phase 0, the date before February 26, 2020) and four pandemic phases ( Phases 1–4) with separation dates of June 17, 2020, September 7, 2020, and June 4, 2021. We found that the number of IPV-related posts increased most in the earliest phase; however, that for COVID-citing IPV was highest in the mid-pandemic phase. IRs for DV, IPV, and emotional violence also showed increases across all pandemic phases, with IRs of 26.9%, 58.8%, and 28.8%, respectively, from the pre-pandemic to the first pandemic phase. In the other three pandemic phases, all the IRs for these three types of violence were positive, though lower than the IRs in the first pandemic phase. The findings highlight the importance of identifying and providing help to those who suffer from such violent experiences and support the role of social media site monitoring as a means of informative surveillance for help-providing authorities and violence research groups.

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Addressing Economic Abuse in Intimate-partner Violence Interventions: A Bacchian Analysis of Responsibility

Byrt,

Cook,

Burgin

2023

J Fam Viol

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Purpose Burgeoning research on intimate partner perpetrated economic abuse highlights the devastating and lasting impacts of economic exploitation, economic control, and employment sabotage, most often endured by women. Despite recognition of the potential outcomes that can result from intimate partner perpetrated economic abuse, such as lifelong poverty, and housing and employment insecurity, there is a dearth of evidence on prevention interventions into economic abuse, and interventions to help women recover from such abuse. This exploratory qualitative meta-synthesis examines existing research to identify key areas for systemic intervention into prevention of economic abuse. Methods Drawing on Bacchi’s ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach, this qualitative meta-synthesis analyses ‘problem representations’ in 11 studies that report on interventions into intimate partner violence, including economic abuse. Articles were identified through a systematic literature search in EBSCOhost and SCOPUS using the following search terms: ‘financial abuse’ OR ‘economic abuse’ AND ‘prevention’ OR ‘intervention’ OR ‘crisis.’ The inclusion criteria were that the study must report: (1) empirical data from an intervention; (2) focus, at least in part, on EA given such abuse is often reported alongside other forms of abuse; (3) abuse occurring within the context of a current or former intimate partner relationship. Results We found that across the reviewed studies, economic abuse was not often explicitly defined, and within descriptions of tactics that constitute economic abuse, the perpetrator remained largely invisible. Interventions into intimate partner violence tended to focus on individualistic prevention/intervention through psychoeducation, men’s intervention programs, clinical interventions, women’s economic empowerment. Relational economic empowerment was also recommended alongside gender-based training to motivate couples to recognise traditional gender power dynamics in relationships. Conclusions We argue that most interventions individualise the prevention of and recovery from economic abuse, promoting women’s self-improvement through financial literacy, economic empowerment, and education as responses to economic violence, rather than making male perpetrators accountable for the harm they cause. This gap in existing interventions reveals an opportunity for financial and government institutions to act through transformative structural reform that disrupts – rather than responds to – male perpetration of economic abuse.

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As Technology Evolves, so Does Domestic Violence: Modern-Day Tech Abuse and Possible Solutions

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

Perpetrator Perceptions on the Emotions and Motivations Driving Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Relationships: A Story Completion Study

Perpetrator Perceptions on the Emotions and Motivations Driving Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Relationships: A Story Completion Study

Characterizing the Differences in Descriptions of Violence on Reddit During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Addressing Economic Abuse in Intimate-partner Violence Interventions: A Bacchian Analysis of Responsibility

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