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The Nature, Patterns and Consequences of Technology-Facilitated Domestic Abuse: A Scoping Review

open access: yesTrauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2021
Women are increasingly at risk of gender-based violence through technology and digital tools. Some digital devices and apps such as GPS location tracking, spyware, mobile phones and social media platforms have become new tools for perpetrators to monitor,
Rojan Afrouz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

This is Abuse… Or is it? Domestic abuse perpetrators’ responses to anti-domestic violence publicity [PDF]

open access: yesCrime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 2014
Social marketing has become a key component of policy initiatives aimed at reducing the incidence of domestic abuse. However, its efficacy remains debated, with most measures of effectiveness being somewhat crude. More subtle effects of social marketing, such as the boomerang effect whereby the message engenders the opposite effect to that intended ...
Gadd, David   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

“From taboo to routine”: a qualitative evaluation of a hospital-based advocacy intervention for domestic violence and abuse

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Health services are often the first point of professional contact for people who have experienced domestic violence and abuse. We report on the evaluation of a multi-site, hospital-based advocacy intervention for survivors of domestic violence
Sandi Dheensa   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gendered Discourses of Responsibility and Domestic Abuse Victim-Blame in the English Children’s Social Care System

open access: yesJournal of Family Violence, 2022
Purpose This paper foregrounds the experiences of mothers involved with England’s children’s social care system when experiencing domestic abuse. It reports on data from a survivor-led study on domestic violence and/or abuse (DVA), involving women victim-
Jessica Wild
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Developing and Testing New Domestic Abuse Questions and Approach for the Crime Survey for England and Wales

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2023
Previous research highlighted that a fundamental rethink of the measurement of domestic abuse was needed in the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW).
Marianne Hester   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A qualitative study to investigate male victims’ experiences of female-perpetrated domestic abuse in Jordan

open access: yesCurrent Psychology, 2021
Battered husband syndrome has not been investigated in an Arab context, despite evidence of a significant increase in violence against men by women. This study investigated male victims’ experiences of female-perpetrated domestic abuse in Jordan using a ...
Rula Odeh Alsawalqa
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Domestic elder abuse and associated factors in elderly women in Tehran, Iran [PDF]

open access: yesEpidemiology and Health, 2018
OBJECTIVES Elderly people are often abused in many ways, with serious and lasting consequences. Elder abuse remains one of the most hidden forms of family conflict, and its frequency is anticipated to be rising in many countries that are rapidly ...
Negar Piri   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coercive control: Patterns in crimes, arrests and outcomes for a new domestic abuse offence

open access: yesBritish Journal of Criminology, 2021
Critics of the criminalisation of coercive control warned that the criminal justice system was ill-prepared for a conceptualisation of domestic abuse that relies on victim accounts of fear and manipulation rather than on evidence of violence.
Iain R. Brennan, A. Myhill
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Changes and continuities in police responses to domestic abuse in England and Wales during the Covid-19 ‘lockdown’

open access: yesPolicing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, 2021
Covid-19 and the associated public health response directing people to stay at home and/or shelter in place generated acute awareness of, and concerns about, the likely impact on violence(s) against women across the globe.
Sandra Walklate   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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