Service Provider Difficulties in Operationalizing Coercive Control

Brennan, Iain; Burton, Victoria; Gormally, Sinead; O’Leary, Nicola

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“…Findings provide support for policy and practice reforms designed to improve definitional clarity around non-physical abuse and increase health professionals' capacity to identify pervasive and nuanced forms of IPV. 31 Despite high levels of self-report IPV in this suicidal sample, less than half the women reported being questioned about victimisation in the ED assessment. Abuse victimisation was among the three least frequently addressed areas in the ED and although it could be argued that three-quarters of women were asked about their 'home life', the literature supports a relationship between direct, non-judgmental questioning and victimisation disclosure.…”

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“…IPV, intimate partner violence. 31 This suggests there are likely many missed opportunities to detect and accurately stratify IPV risk in clinical settings. Findings provide support for policy and practice reforms designed to improve definitional clarity around non-physical abuse and increase health professionals' capacity to identify pervasive and nuanced forms of IPV.…”

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Investigating the prevalence of intimate partner violence victimisation in women presenting to the emergency department in suicidal crisis

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Steel

Spangaro

et al. 2021

Emerg Medicine Australasia

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Objective: To investigate the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) and frequency of victimisation questioning by hospital staff in women presenting to EDs for suiciderelated complaints and injuries. Methods: A cross-sectional survey design was used to assess IPV and ED experiences among women with a recent (<18 months) suicide-related presentation to EDs within six Local Health Districts across New South Wales. Women aged 16 years and over, residing in participating health districts were recruited in-person by hospital staff, or via Facebook advertisements. Variables assessed included demographic characteristics, psychosocial assessment coverage and exposure to IPV (Composite Abuse Scale [Revised]-Short-Form). Binary logistic regression was used to test for independent associations between variables on victimisation questioning by hospital staff. Results: A total of 563 women completed questionnaires following presentation to the ED for a suicide attempt (n = 329; 58%) or suicide crisis (n = 234; 42%). Of these, 200 women (36%) reported IPV exposure in the 18 months prior and 141 women (25%) reported earlier lifetime victimisation.Of the 341 women with a history of IPV, 155 women (45%) were asked about victimisation by hospital staff. Younger age and lower socio-economic status were significantly associated with questioning (P = 0.03). Conclusion: Findings suggest a large proportion of women seeking support for suicide in the ED are affected by IPV, although few are asked about abuse experiences. Victimisation is associated with complex health issues and heightened mortality risk, which carry important implications for patient-care. Findings support routine ED screening and can be applied to stratify risk within IPV responses.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Investigating the prevalence of intimate partner violence victimisation in women presenting to the emergency department in suicidal crisis

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Steel

Spangaro

et al. 2021

Emerg Medicine Australasia

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“…The work of Stansfield and Williams (2018) is clearly suggestive of a need to at least reframe understandings of such existing laws in light of coercive control. This legal strategy focuses considerable attention on the role of practitioners in embracing such understandings (see also Brennan et al 2018). However, some jurisdictions have taken the concept of coercive control further and have introduced specific legislation designed to capture the wide range and ongoing nature of behaviours included within it.…”

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“…Early evaluations of the English legislation point to problems for frontline police officers in 'seeing' coercive control (Wiener 2017), in practitioner understandings of coercive control more generally (Brennan et al 2018;Robinson, Myhill and Wire 2018) and problems associated with providing evidence of this offence (Bishop and Bettinson 2018). However, despite mixed evaluations of its early operation, like offences have continued to emerge in nearby jurisdictions, including the aforementioned Scottish offence and most recently, the introduction of a new offence of coercive control in Ireland, under section 39 of the Domestic Violence Act.…”

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The Criminalisation of Coercive Control: The Power of Law?

Walklate

Fitz‐Gibbon

2019

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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Making sense of intimate partner violence has long been seen through the lens of coercive control. However, despite the longstanding presence of this concept, it is only in recent years that efforts have been made to recognise coercive control within the legal context. This article examines the extent to which the law per se has the power, or indeed the capacity, to respond to what is known about coercive control. To do so, it charts the varied ways in which coercive control has entered legal discourse in different jurisdictions and maps these efforts onto what is evidenced about the nature and extent of coercive control in everyday life. This article then places the legal and the everyday side by side and considers the unintended consequences of ‘coercive control creep’. In conclusion, it is suggested that the criminalisation of coercive control only serves to fail those it is intended to protect.

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“…In this ‘gendered injustice’17 process many women became ‘caught’ in the criminal justice system when they were not the predominant aggressor 2. Recent research highlights the difficulties in identifying victims of coercive control 18. These concerns are live in the Victorian context, where women are being misidentified as perpetrators of violence, due to their violent male partners manipulating the police as an act of coercive control 19…”

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Working with women who use force: a feasibility study protocol of the Positive (+)SHIFT group work programme in Australia

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IntroductionThis study assesses the feasibility of the Positive Shift (+SHIFT) programme in the context of legal responses and social welfare provision in the state of Victoria, Australia.The +SHIFT programme, adapted from the Vista curriculum, is a group work and case management programme for women who use force. Building on traditional survivor support group strengths, the programme facilitates participants’ engagement with viable alternatives to force while promoting healing. The study also aims to increase understanding about the characteristics and needs of women who use force in Australia.Methods and analysisThis feasibility study will assess the +SHIFT programme’s appropriateness in addressing women’s use of force in the Victorian context. Process evaluation will be undertaken to identify recruitment, retention, women’s participation, barriers to implementation, the appropriateness of proposed outcome measures and other issues. The feasibility of an outcome evaluation which would employ a longitudinal mixed methods design with measures administered at preprogramme, programme completion and 3 months postprogramme time points, along with semistructured interviews with participants, programme staff and referring professionals, will also be assessed.Ethics and disseminationResearch ethics approval was obtained from the University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee. Results of the study will be communicated to the programme providers as part of the action research process evaluation methodology. On completion, final results will be reported to programme providers and funding bodies, and published in academic journals and presented at national and international conferences.

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Service Provider Difficulties in Operationalizing Coercive Control

Cited by 20 publications

References 24 publications

Investigating the prevalence of intimate partner violence victimisation in women presenting to the emergency department in suicidal crisis

Investigating the prevalence of intimate partner violence victimisation in women presenting to the emergency department in suicidal crisis

The Criminalisation of Coercive Control: The Power of Law?

Working with women who use force: a feasibility study protocol of the Positive (+)SHIFT group work programme in Australia

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