Exploring the Impact of Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Its Relationship with Domestic Violence: A Qualitative Study on Experts’ Perceptions

Fiolet, Renee; Brown, Cynthia; Wellington, Molly; Bentley, Karen L. de Mesy; Hegarty, Kelsey

doi:10.1177/23333936211028176

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“…Our study also revealed new perpetrator narratives about the TAR behaviours undertaken and how different technologies are utilised to engage in TAR. These motive, behavioural and technology-oriented findings are being reported elsewhere across two other manuscripts (Fiolet et al. , 2023; McKay et al.…”

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“…A further example relates to cultures in which a TAR perpetrator’s sharing of nude or sexual images of his or her female partner could have devastating social or even fatal consequences for the female partner because of the shame it brings about for the family (The eSafety Commissioner, 2019; Brown et al. , 2021b; Fiolet et al. , 2021).…”

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Exploring the use of story completion to understand the perpetration of technology-facilitated abuse in relationships

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PurposeThis paper presents a novel exploration of the story completion (SC) method for investigating perpetration of technology-facilitated abuse in relationships (TAR).Design/methodology/approachThe authors adopted the infrequently used SC method to explore TAR perpetration. The perpetration of TAR can involve socially undesirable and potentially illegal behaviours such as online stalking, non-consensual sharing of nude images, and other coercive and controlling behaviours. These problematic behaviours present an ideal context for employing the SC method to reveal new data on TAR perpetrator perspectives, motivations and behaviours.FindingsThe SC method elicited new hypotheses regarding TAR perpetration behaviours and motivations. Post-study reflection on the multifaceted nature of perpetration raised questions about the utility of SC as a stand-alone method for investigating TAR perpetration. Challenges encountered included: striking the most effective length, detail and ambiguity in the story stems, difficulty in eliciting important contextual features in participants’ stories, and other issues scholars encounter when investigating perpetration of violence more broadly. The authors close with suggestions for more effective use of SC methodology in TAR and intimate partner violence research.Originality/valueThis paper expands discussion of the SC method’s application and extends scholarship on violence and perpetration research methodologies. The paper demonstrates the importance of story stem design to the attainment of research objectives and the usefulness and limitations of SC in exploring this sensitive topic and hard-to-reach population. It also advocates for the combined application of SC with other methodological approaches for the attainment of research outcomes when investigating multifaceted phenomenon.

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Exploring the use of story completion to understand the perpetration of technology-facilitated abuse in relationships

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“…Their findings showed that TFA escalated post-separation. Fiolet et al (2021) interviewed 15 domestic violence experts about their perceptions of TFA and IPV and obtained similar findings to those of prior studies (e.g., Dragiewicz et al, 2021;Flynn et al, 2021). That is, TFA was found to be a form of control and an extension of IPV.…”

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Technology-Facilitated Abuse in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence: A Qualitative Study of Women Survivors in Taiwan

Kuo

Zhang

Chang

2023

Violence Against Women

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We explore the emerging issue of how communications technologies can be used by male perpetrators to facilitate intimate partner violence against their female partners. We analyzed interview narratives from 18 women survivors of intimate partner violence in Taiwan, informed by Stark's theory of coercive control. Our findings indicated that the male perpetrators of intimate partner violence against the survivors utilized communications technologies to further harm, control, and intimidate their victims. We found that the perpetrators harassed, stalked/monitored, and isolated the survivors and distributed defamatory messages about the survivors to other people using telephones, e-mail, social media, the Internet, broadcast media, and recording devices.

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“…We identified a growing research trend in three areas: “coercive control,” “technology,” and “pandemic,” all of which gave a solid avenue for strengthening further research. Digital technology was identified as a new “vehicle” of “weapon” for expanding and magnifying the classic ills of FADV, jeopardizing the progress accomplished by advocates over the last 30 years (Drouin et al, 2015; Fiolet et al, 2021; Woodlock et al, 2020). Despite the rise of this cutting-edge topic in current articles, the existing literature focused on the understanding of the nature and scope of technology-facilitated violence, as well as the response to it.…”

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Australian Trends in Academic Literature Concerned With Family and Domestic Violence Perpetrators: A Bibliometric Literature Review

Patmisari

McLaren

2022

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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In this article, we used a novel hybrid approach to review literature concerned with family and domestic violence (FADV) perpetrators. Our intention was to chart the research and publication activity of authors with Australian affiliation to identify homegrown evidence related to stopping the perpetration of violence. This involved systematic searching of literature from the Scopus electronic database, utilization of VOSviewer to sort keyword co-occurrences and authorship linking for 1,494 publication records over a 30-year period, and the review of 21 articles with perpetrator focus, identified from the 50 most cited publications. We found that Australians’ authoring interests in FADV, over the last three decades, with perpetrator focus were predominantly concentrated on gender, rape and sexual assault, coercive control, and child abuse. In the most cited literature, six major themes were identified: perpetrator motivations, perpetrator interventions, patterns of violence, pandemic duet, perception of blame, and cyberstalking and violence. An upward curve in Australian authoring activity in the period under review aligns with societal shifts in which FADV was once considered a private issue and has now become ubiquitous in the public domain. Our findings revealed that research into perpetrators is insufficient to promote a zero-tolerance approach to FADV. Our corresponding in-depth literature review provides valuable insights surrounding perpetrator intervention programs with the goal of more effectively addressing the emerging challenge of technology-facilitated coercive control.

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Exploring the Impact of Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Its Relationship with Domestic Violence: A Qualitative Study on Experts’ Perceptions

Cited by 14 publications

References 42 publications

Exploring the use of story completion to understand the perpetration of technology-facilitated abuse in relationships

Exploring the use of story completion to understand the perpetration of technology-facilitated abuse in relationships

Technology-Facilitated Abuse in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence: A Qualitative Study of Women Survivors in Taiwan

Australian Trends in Academic Literature Concerned With Family and Domestic Violence Perpetrators: A Bibliometric Literature Review

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