Women Victims of Violence Defending Intervention Orders

Jillard, Alicia; Mansour, Julia

doi:10.1177/1037969x1403900407

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“…Further, some victim-survivors may be misidentified as offenders in cross-orders (Douglas & Fitzgerald, 2013;Durfee & Goodmark, 2021;Jillard & Mansour, 2014;Wangmann, 2010). A crossorder refers to a scenario where both parties have a DVO against each other.…”

Section: Legal Responses In Australiamentioning

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Beyond the Victim-offender Binary: Legal and Anti-violence Intervention Considerations With Women Who Have Used Force in the U.S. and Australia

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Kertesz

Humphreys

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In the United States (U.S.) and Australian contexts, the fight to achieve legal and societal recognition of cisgender men's violence against cisgender women operated according to an incident-based victim-offender binary. Those held accountable for the violence were seen as offenders, those who survived the violence were seen as victims. This binary persists across police, court, corrections, intervention, and child protection settings. However, work with cisgender heterosexual women with offenses of abuse and violence demonstrates that the binary does not capture their complex experiences. Instead, they have “offended” in the context of often surviving long-term harm in their families of origin and from their intimate partners. Because their experiences do not align with the binary, they are caught in ineffective and retraumatizing responses. The authors use an intersectional theoretical framework to explore how heterosexual cisgender women's use of force complicates the victim-offender binary. By understanding women who have used force as having both survived and caused harm, rather than “victims” or “offenders,” the authors call attention to the limitations of, and harm caused by, binary approaches. The authors also call for a reconceptualization beyond the binary—challenging established legal and intervention frameworks. To demonstrate the need for this reconceptualization, the authors report on U.S. and Australian legal cases, intervention approaches, and discuss socio-legal systems implications.

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confidence: 99%

Beyond the Victim-offender Binary: Legal and Anti-violence Intervention Considerations With Women Who Have Used Force in the U.S. and Australia

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Kertesz

Humphreys

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Australian Perspectives on Domestic Violence

Stubbs

Wangmann

2017

Global Responses to Domestic Violence

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Exploring gender differences in domestic violence reported to the NSW Police Force

Wangmann

Laing

Stubbs

2020

Current Issues in Criminal Justice

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Whether men and women are equally violent in their intimate relationships has animated considerable debate in the scholarly literature, and increasingly, in policy and law reform processes. This debate about the gendered nature of domestic violence (DV) has re-intensified over the past decade with police data from various countries documenting an increase in women identified as DV offenders. While there has been considerable research exploring the increase in women DV offenders overseas (particularly in the USA) there has been little research in Australia. This article seeks to fill some of these gaps. It reports on a NSW study which explored differences between women and men identified as 'persons of interest' in an incident reported to police in 2010, and then over time (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012) to see whether that person was the predominant victim or offender. This article focuses on cases in which the police intended to take legal action arising from the 2010 incident; this is important, as one would anticipate greater similarity between men's and women's use of violence in cases warranting the attention of the law. The article highlights the limitations of an incident focus when examining a patterned form of behaviour such as DV.

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Women Victims of Violence Defending Intervention Orders

Cited by 3 publications

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Beyond the Victim-offender Binary: Legal and Anti-violence Intervention Considerations With Women Who Have Used Force in the U.S. and Australia

Beyond the Victim-offender Binary: Legal and Anti-violence Intervention Considerations With Women Who Have Used Force in the U.S. and Australia

Australian Perspectives on Domestic Violence

Exploring gender differences in domestic violence reported to the NSW Police Force

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