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- Title
Service Provider Difficulties in Operationalizing Coercive Control.
- Authors
Brennan, Iain R.; Burton, Victoria; Gormally, Sinéad; O'Leary, Nicola
- Abstract
We examined perspectives of social workers, police officers, and specialist domestic abuse practitioners about their perceived ability and organizational readiness to respond effectively to incidents of coercive and controlling behavior. Interviews revealed intervention and risk assessment strategies structured around an outdated, maladaptive concept of domestic abuse as an unambiguous and violent event and frontline services that lacked appreciation of the power dynamics inherent in controlling relationships. The analysis demonstrates how lack of definitional clarity around nonphysical domestic abuse can increase the use of discretion by frontline services and, by extension, increase the discounting of coercive control by pressured frontline officers.
- Subjects
PREVENTION of family violence; CONTROL (Psychology); INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; NATIONAL health services; POLICE; POWER (Social sciences); RISK assessment; STATISTICAL sampling; PSYCHOLOGY of social workers; QUALITATIVE research; CAREGIVER attitudes; SOCIAL worker attitudes
- Publication
Violence Against Women, 2019, Vol 25, Issue 6, p635
- ISSN
1077-8012
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077801218797478