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- Title
The Abuse of Technology in Domestic Violence and Stalking.
- Authors
Woodlock, Delanie
- Abstract
We focus on an emerging trend in the context of domestic violence—the use of technology to facilitate stalking and other forms of abuse. Surveys with 152 domestic violence advocates and 46 victims show that technology—including phones, tablets, computers, and social networking websites—is commonly used in intimate partner stalking. Technology was used to create a sense of the perpetrator’s omnipresence, and to isolate, punish, and humiliate domestic violence victims. Perpetrators also threatened to share sexualized content online to humiliate victims. Technology-facilitated stalking needs to be treated as a serious offense, and effective practice, policy, and legal responses must be developed.
- Subjects
MEDICAL personnel; ATTITUDE (Psychology); DOMESTIC violence; FEAR; GLOBAL Positioning System; RESEARCH methodology; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; SEX crimes; SOCIAL isolation; STALKING; TECHNOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY of crime victims; WORLD Wide Web; EMAIL; TEXT messages; THEMATIC analysis; SOCIAL media; SMARTPHONES; HUMAN research subjects; PATIENT selection; INTIMATE partner violence; SEXUAL partners; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Violence Against Women, 2017, Vol 23, Issue 5, p584
- ISSN
1077-8012
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077801216646277