Preventing Violence Against Women: Engaging the Fathers of Today and Tomorrow

Crooks, Claire V.; Goodall, George R.; Baker, Linda; Hughes, Ray

doi:10.1016/j.cbpra.2005.04.001

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“…Before then, “domestic violence “was never anything that had ever crossed [his] mind.” The older a man is, the more time he has had for potential sensitizing and involvement opportunities, including forming friendships, romantic partnerships, and families. The importance of parenting in the entry and motivations of older men are largely absent in a literature that tends to focus on younger men’s involvements, despite a number of movement groups (including Men Stopping Violence, MenCare, and Founding Fathers) 4 that base praxis around fatherhood (Crooks et al 2006).…”

Section: Making Antisexist Men’s Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engaging Diverse Men: An Intersectional Analysis of Men’s Pathways to Antiviolence Activism

Peretz

2017

Gender & Society

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Despite the demonstrated utility of intersectionality, research on men allied with women’s rights movements has largely focused on white, heterosexual, middle-class, young men. This study illustrates the importance of attending to men’s intersecting identities by evaluating the applicability of existing knowledge about men’s engagement pathways to the predominantly African American members of a Muslim men’s anti–domestic violence group and a gay/queer men’s gender justice group. Findings from a year-long qualitative study highlight how these men’s experiences differ from those in the literature. While the Muslim men’s experiences add dimension to the existing knowledge—especially regarding age and parenthood, online interactions, and formal learning opportunities—the gay/queer men’s experiences are not accurately represented within it. Their pathways begin earlier, do not rely on women’s input, do not create a shift in gendered worldview, and lack a pathway narrative because they connect to gender justice through their own intersecting identities and experiences. This suggests that a marginalized identity is not in itself sufficient to alter engagement pathways; the particular type of marginalization matters.

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Section: Making Antisexist Men’s Groupsmentioning

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Engaging Diverse Men: An Intersectional Analysis of Men’s Pathways to Antiviolence Activism

Peretz

2017

Gender & Society

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“…From a systems perspective, the willingness to mandate attendance at intervention, and to follow through on this mandate, is an important mechanism for providing service to abusive fathers. Notably, this direction counters the "invite, don't indict" approach being touted with engaging fathers in general (Arean & Davis, in press;Crooks, Goodall, Baker, & Hughes, 2006). Although we agree with the invitational approach for non-violent men, men who have been abusive often require a more structured directive to enter intervention.…”

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confidence: 63%

Intervention for Abusive Fathers: Promising Practices in Court and Community Responses

Scott

Crooks

2006

Juvenile and Family Court Journal

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S u m m e r 2 0 0 6 • J u v e n i l e a n d F a m i l y C o u r t J o u r n a l T Against Women and Children and Associate Director of the CAMH Centre for Prevention Science. Dr. Crooks is co-author of a manual for a treatment program for abusive fathers, which is being piloted in London, Toronto, and Boston. She also conducts custody and access assessments through the London Family Court Clinic. She frequently serves as faculty at NCJFCJ training sessions on domestic violence topics. I n t e r v e n t i o n f o r A b u s i v e F a t h e r s30 J u v e n i l e a n d F a m i l y C o u r t J o u r n a l • S u m m e r 2 0 0 6

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“…Efforts to engage men as allies can presumably help to reduce the risk of abuse by men who participate; it can also change the culture that might support other men's behavior. A number of authors have argued that male involvement in campaigns to end intimate partner violence can help to undermine beliefs, attitudes, and power relationships that support violence and transform the culture to support constructions of masculinity that lead to respectful and nonviolent relationships with women (Crooks, Goodall, Baker & Hughes, 2006;Flood, 2005). Berkowitz (2004) has categorized the goals of efforts to engage men into three categories: (1) prevention of men's violence; (2) men's intervention to prevent the violence of other men; and (3) addressing root causes of violence, such as gender socialization.…”

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confidence: 99%

Intervening with Men for Violence Prevention

Tolman¹,

Edleson²

2011

Sourcebook on Violence Against Women

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T his chapter focuses on intervening with men in a variety of contexts to prevent violence against women and children. We first present a brief historical account of intervention programs with men who batter their intimate partners. We then present prevention and ecological frameworks as lenses through which we consider current and possible strategies for intervening with men. Men, Violence, and InterventionEarlier chapters in this book have focused on intimate partner violence in heterosexual and samesex relationships, sexual assault, and a variety of other forms of violence against women. As pointed out in earlier chapters, although women can be violent to their partners, the overwhelming evidence is that intimate partner violence is most often committed by men. In fact, as Hamby (2009) has outlined, men commit more than 90% of sexual violence, create higher levels of fear in their partners, and injure and murder their partners at much higher rates than do women. This is not to say that women do not commit violent acts against their partners; they commit violence, however, at a much lower rate than men, and it appears to be less severe. Stanko (2006) identifies gender as vitally relevant to how domestic violence is conceptualized, spoken of, and challenged, noting that, "To lose sight and insight by ignoring how gender matters impoverishes any analyses of violence" (p. 549). We also acknowledge that intimate partner violence occurs in same-sex relationships, as was also pointed out earlier in this book. Our focus here, however, is on men's violence directed at their intimate female partners.

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Preventing Violence Against Women: Engaging the Fathers of Today and Tomorrow

Cited by 13 publications

References 21 publications

Engaging Diverse Men: An Intersectional Analysis of Men’s Pathways to Antiviolence Activism

Engaging Diverse Men: An Intersectional Analysis of Men’s Pathways to Antiviolence Activism

Intervention for Abusive Fathers: Promising Practices in Court and Community Responses

Intervening with Men for Violence Prevention

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