Gendered Violence and the Ethics of Social Science Research

Mulla, Sameena; Hlavka, Heather R.

doi:10.1177/1077801211436169

Cited by 21 publications

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“…This selection would avoid wasting resources with people who are not yet ready to desist (and will not benefit from employment) and avoid creating perverse incentives for those who are still actively involved in crime. Until women's risks are properly defined and assessed, the development of programming that best suits their needs will continue to fall short [53,54,84,114,129]. Most importantly, we must infuse all programming with an intersectional orientation that accounts for the many victimization, offending, and reentry contexts that women of different races, classes, sexual orientations, and other social loci must navigate [37,41,89,96].…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effects of Age at Prison Release on Women’s Desistance Trajectories: a Mixed-Method Analysis

Kerrison

Bachman

Paternoster

2016

J Dev Life Course Criminology

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to measure the effect that age has on women's gendered prisoner reentry experiences and the likelihood of desisting from crime and substance abuse. This study also seeks to evaluate the applicability of Paternoster and Bushway's (2009) Identity Theory of Desistance (ITD) for a contemporary, all-female sample. Methods This mixed-method study makes use of official arrest data for 218 women leaving Delaware prisons in the mid 1990s, to create group-based offending trajectory models. A representative subsample of 118 women was interviewed between 2009 and 2011 and asked to conceptualize the mechanisms that led to their desistance or persistence in offending. Results Multinomial logistic regression analyses reveal that for some of the sample, age at the time of release from prison has a positive effect on the likelihood that women will belong to a desisting trajectory group rather than the most deviant reference group. Interview narratives demonstrate that in navigating the post-incarceration gendered experiences of securing employment, family reunification, and substance abuse recovery, maturity, clarity about one's personal responsibility for linked failures, and a desire to transform one's identity were significant factors that preceded the capacity to excel in those reentry domains. Conclusions These findings lend support for the applicability of ITD for women's desistance experiences. As older women appear to express a reentry goal orientation that diverges from that of their younger counterparts, gender-responsive rehabilitation J Dev Life Course Criminology (2016) agendas must also include programming that increases the likelihood that participants will connect failures sooner so that the prosocial benefits of a healthy identity change can be enjoyed for longer.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effects of Age at Prison Release on Women’s Desistance Trajectories: a Mixed-Method Analysis

Kerrison

Bachman

Paternoster

2016

J Dev Life Course Criminology

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“…Scholars have criticized IRB overreach and the limitations set on social research despite little evidence that IRBs are effective in protecting participants (Adler & Adler, 2016). IRB guidelines are focused on a rights-based model rather than on the ethics of care explicitly promoted by feminist researchers (Gilligan, 1982;Harding, 2004;Mulla & Hlavka, 2011). Concerned mainly with managing risk, the result is disparate ethical body conclusions for similarly proposed studies in different universities (Stark, 2012) and decreased attention to understudied groups and topics like child sexual victimization.…”

Section: Sexual Violence Voice and Regulating Bodiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Researchers can promote examples of studies with similar topics and methods (Adler & Adler, 2016) and inform IRBs about nontraditional designs outside of more traditional paradigms (Harger & Quintela, 2017). Scholars must question the role of regulatory bodies and feminist critiques ought to figure predominately in discussions of ethics, focusing less on universal rights and rules and more on care ethics, interpersonal relations and positionality, and researcher responsibilities (Mulla & Hlavka, 2011).…”

Section: Sexual Violence Voice and Regulating Bodiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regulating Bodies: Children and Sexual Violence

Hlavka

2019

Violence Against Women

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The interdisciplinary silences on sexual violence and the omission of children and youth from social science research speak volumes of the power of the child as a flexible, cultural signifier. In this article, I argue that dominant frameworks of children and childhood make child sexual assault a discursive impossibility for most young people. The epistemic violence of silencing matters, and it is these erasures that are fundamental to understanding violence and power. I argue it is paramount for feminist researchers to call attention to the undermining qualities of Institutional Review Boards that act as gatekeepers of representation and voice.

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“…Additionally, I have considerable experience dealing with issues of violence and psychological trauma, and ethical practice and care in research, so as to be able to provide fi rst response to any interlocutors who may be in need (Igreja 2004(Igreja , 2009Igreja et al 2004). Although none of them showed signs of distress when telling me of their experiences, I took into account the feminist perspective that recommends that researchers 'consider victims of violence as moral agents' (Mulla andHlavka 2011: 1512). In this regard, and in a fashion similar to how Sharon Lamb (1999: 9) considers how 'victims struggle to remain agents of their acts as they describe their victimization', I understood that my interlocutors told me of their experiences of exposure to violence not to claim victimhood and vulnerability but to demonstrate that they could speak with authority on the topic of DV.…”

Section: Hanging Around In Public Spaces and Conducting Interviewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Silence and Visual Representations of Anti-Violence Campaigns in Cosmopolitan Brisbane

Igreja¹

2018

Anthropology in Action

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In spite of the growing public focus on domestic violence (DV) in mainstream Australian society, ethnographers have remained aloof from analysing this problem. In an ethnographic study in the Brisbane region, I analysed people’s perceptions of anti-violence images that were part of a public campaign and assessed the appropriateness of the images’ locations. Occasionally, my interlocutors unexpectedly included accounts of DV. My analysis reveals the tensions between public display and the concealment underlying the campaign. The interlocutors revealed experiences of competing responsibilities related to DV. The use of subtle images of anti-violence in locations filled with competing images, coupled with a failure to consider historical continuities and changes in local imaginaries of violence, exposed the difficulties associated with conveying persuasive messages of DV prevention.

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Gendered Violence and the Ethics of Social Science Research

Cited by 21 publications

References 23 publications

The Effects of Age at Prison Release on Women’s Desistance Trajectories: a Mixed-Method Analysis

The Effects of Age at Prison Release on Women’s Desistance Trajectories: a Mixed-Method Analysis

Regulating Bodies: Children and Sexual Violence

Silence and Visual Representations of Anti-Violence Campaigns in Cosmopolitan Brisbane

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