The Intersectionality of Domestic Violence and Welfare in the Lives of Poor Women

Josephson, Jyl

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“…To counter this prevailing attitude, feminist anti-violence activists worked in the 1970s to establish a 'law and order' response in which IPA was taken seriously by the criminal justice system and penalized in the same manner as stranger assault (Richie 1996, Hirschel and Hutchinson 2003, Sokoloff and Dupont 2005. However, one unintended consequence of these efforts was the positioning of the criminal justice system as the primary means of redress for battered women (Richie 1996, Josephson 2002, Almeida and Lockard 2005. In effect, a norm developed in which battered women who were 'serious' about getting help were expected to utilize criminal justice resources (Ford 1983, Hoyle and Sanders 2000, Hirschel and Hutchinson 2003, including calling the police (Coulter et al 1999, Bowker 1984, Abel and Suh 1987, Hutchinson and Hirschel 1998 partners and prompt an escalation in violence as a means of revenge (Ford 1983, Fischer and Rose 1995, Erez and Belknap 1998, Zoellner et al 2000, Bui 2001, Krishnan et al 2001.…”

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Backfire: lessons learned when the criminal justice system fails help-seeking battered women

Burgess‐Proctor

2012

Journal of Crime and Justice

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To cite this article: Amanda Burgess-Proctor (2012) Backfire: lessons learned when the criminal justice system fails help-seeking battered women, Journal of Crime and Justice, 35:1, 68-92, In this analysis I use data from interviews with 22 battered women in two states to explore their criminal justice help-seeking experiences. First, I examine participants' overwhelmingly negative experiences with three criminal justice help-seeking strategies: calling the police, pursuing prosecution of their abusers, and obtaining protection orders. Next, I contextualize these negative experiences by identifying two sources of conflict between help-seeking battered women and the criminal justice system: perception incompatibility and goal incompatibility.Here I also use the narrative data to evaluate women's sense that use of the criminal justice system 'backfired' on them, and identify the consequences of this backfire for disrupting women's help-seeking pathways. I also present, as a counterpoint, women's uniformly positive experiences with two non-criminal justice resources: shelter and support groups services. Finally, I use these findings to identify specific lessons that can be learned to improve the overall criminal justice response to help-seeking battered women.

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Backfire: lessons learned when the criminal justice system fails help-seeking battered women

Burgess‐Proctor

2012

Journal of Crime and Justice

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“…A large body of work in criminology has documented disproportionately negative experiences with police in disadvantaged communities, with a focus on the experience of people of color (see review in Brunson and Miller 2006). There is a general consensus in the IPV literature that given this context, IPV victims' experiences with police are also more negative when they are of lower SES, and that this problem is even worse in communities of color (Coker 2005;Cole 2001;Josephson 2005), but there is little empirical evidence or detail of how or why this is so. This study asks if interactions with police are indeed more negative among women who have experienced IPV when their SES is lower, and if so, how.…”

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The Role of Socioeconomic Status in Interactions with Police Among a National Sample of Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence

Cattaneo

2010

American J of Comm Psychol

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Using a national dataset of 820 women who had called the police for an incident of intimate partner violence, this study explored the relationship between several components of socioeconomic status (education, income, and employment), race, and the nature of interactions with police. Over and above the effects of control variables (the presence of an advocate on the scene, the severity of violence in the relationship, and prior calls to police), victims with higher education reported less positive interactions, less control during the interactions, and lower effectiveness of police. Race did not moderate these relationships, and the other components of socioeconomic status were not significantly related to any of the outcomes. Exploratory tests of mediation found that the relationship between education and the quality of interactions with police was explained by the fact that more educated victims felt they had less control in these incidents and were less likely to see the offender arrested. Results also provide evidence for the positive impact of advocates on interactions with police. Implications for research and policy are discussed.

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“…The exception is poverty, which is the only factor that consistently has been found to be a key contributor to domestic violence (Davies, 2008;Jewkes, 2005;Josephson, 2005;Lyon, 2000Lyon, , 2002Sokoloff & Dupont, 2005). The most recent USDOJ (2007) statistics from an analysis of reported and unreported family violence indicate that persons in households with annual incomes less than $7,500 (below the U.S. poverty threshold) have higher rates of assault than do persons in households with higher income levels.…”

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“…Number 6(Supplement) 65, S34 , Survivors of domestic violence often face challenges sustaining employment (Josephson, 2005;Riger & Staggs, 2004;Tolman & Raphael, 2000). One common reason is that abuse, including stalking and excessive phone calls or other forms of contact, often happens at the workplace (Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence, 2002Violence, -2008.…”

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Occupational Therapy Services for Individuals Who Have Experienced Domestic Violence

Javaherian-Dysinger¹,

Underwood²

2011

The American Journal of Occupational Therapy

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The primary purpose of this statement is to define the role of occupational therapy and the scope of services available for survivors and families who have experienced domestic violence. The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) supports and promotes the use of this document by occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, and individuals interested in this topic as it relates to the profession of occupational therapy.

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The Intersectionality of Domestic Violence and Welfare in the Lives of Poor Women

Cited by 45 publications

References 10 publications

Backfire: lessons learned when the criminal justice system fails help-seeking battered women

Backfire: lessons learned when the criminal justice system fails help-seeking battered women

The Role of Socioeconomic Status in Interactions with Police Among a National Sample of Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence

Occupational Therapy Services for Individuals Who Have Experienced Domestic Violence

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