Choice-Point: Fostering Awareness and Choice with Perpetrators in Domestic Violence Interventions

Bellini, Rosanna; Forrest, Simon; Westmarland, Nicole; Jackson, Dan; Smeddinck, Jan David

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“…Scholars such as Woodlock (2017), Douglas et al (2019), Matthews et al (2017), and Freed et al (2017) studied the role and experiences the misuse of technologies for IPV victims/survivors creates. While digital systems offer opportunities to assist IPV victims/survivors (Arief et al, 2014;Burdon and Douglas, 2017;Rodríguez-Rodríguez et al, 2020) and to challenge perpetrator's behaviours (Bellini et al, 2020), the exploitation of technologies to harm, monitor, and dominate victims/survivors can be positioned within Kelly's conceptualisation (1988) of a 'continuum of violence' (Harris, 2020). Thus, offline and online abuse forms closely intersect and overlap with other coercive and controlling behaviours (Stark, 2007;2016;Stark and Hester, 2018).…”

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‘I feel like we’re really behind the game’: perspectives of the United Kingdom’s intimate partner violence support sector on the rise of technology-facilitated abuse

Tanczer

López-Neira

Parkin

2021

Journal of Gender-Based Violence

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Technology-facilitated abuse or ‘tech abuse’ in intimate partner violence (IPV) contexts describes the breadth of harms that can be enacted using digital systems and online tools. While the misappropriation of technologies in the context of IPV has been subject to prior research, a dedicated study on the United Kingdom’s IPV support sector has so far been missing. The present analysis summarises insights derived from semi-structured interviews with 34 UK voluntary and statutory sector representatives that were conducted over the course of two years (2018–2020). The analysis identifies four overarching themes that point out support services’ practices, concerns and challenges in relation to tech abuse, and specifically the Internet of Things (IoT). These themes include (a) technology-facilitated abuse, where interviewees outline their experiences and understanding of the concept of tech abuse; (b) IoT-enabled tech abuse, focusing on the changing dynamics of tech abuse due to the continuing rise of smart consumer products; (c) data, documentation and assessment, that directs our attention to the shortcomings of existing risk assessment and recording practices; and (d) training, support and assistance, in which participants point to the need for specialist support capabilities to be developed within and beyond existing services. Key messages <ul><li>UK statutory and voluntary support services do not feel well equipped to respond to tech abuse.</li> <li>Shortcomings in documentation and assessment practices make it difficult to estimate the full scale and nature of tech abuse.</li> <li>Tech abuse training and other support mechanisms are needed to amplify the UK sector’s ability to assist IPV victims/survivors.</li></ul>

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‘I feel like we’re really behind the game’: perspectives of the United Kingdom’s intimate partner violence support sector on the rise of technology-facilitated abuse

Tanczer

López-Neira

Parkin

2021

Journal of Gender-Based Violence

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“…We acknowledge that caution must be applied to repeating such a process where participants who have used harm are not free to present themselves in such a light where their abusive behaviours are legitimised by the minimisation, denial or blame of others [5,35]. Providing those with the ability to craft an identity, particularly people who may have carefully curated an acceptable public-facing identity so as to hide their abuse of their partners, is a particular underlined risk with this social group.…”

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“…Finally, the lead author has years of experience in working to design, deploy and evaluate technologies with support organisations who work with perpetrators of domestic abuse [5,6,8]. While it is reportedly rare for perpetrators to pose a physical risk to researchers (as most do not use violence outside of their relationships [37]), she also possesses appropriate training for dealing with extreme and difficult behaviours.…”

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Fragments of the Past: Curating Peer Support with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence

Bellini

Wilson

Smeddinck

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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There is growing evidence that digital peer-support networks can have a positive influence on behaviour change and wellbeing outcomes for people who harm themselves and others. However, making and sustaining such networks are subject to ethical and pragmatic challenges, particularly for perpetrators of domestic violence whom pose unique risks when brought together.In this work we report on a ten-month study where we worked with six support workers and eighteen perpetrators in the design and deployment of Fragments of the Past; a socio-material system that connects audio messages with tangible artefacts. We share how crafting digitally-augmented artefacts -'fragments' -of experiences of desisting from violence can translate messages for motivation and rapport between peers, without subjecting the process to risks inherent with direct inter-personal communication. These insights provide the basis for practical considerations for future network design with challenging populations. Human-centered computing~Human computer interaction (HCI) • Human-centered computing~HCI theory, concepts and models • Human-centered computing~Empirical studies in HCI

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I Feel Like We’re Really Behind the Game’: Perspectives of the United Kingdom’s Intimate Partner Violence Support Sector on the Rise of Technology-Facilitated Abuse

2021

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Choice-Point: Fostering Awareness and Choice with Perpetrators in Domestic Violence Interventions

Cited by 17 publications

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‘I feel like we’re really behind the game’: perspectives of the United Kingdom’s intimate partner violence support sector on the rise of technology-facilitated abuse

‘I feel like we’re really behind the game’: perspectives of the United Kingdom’s intimate partner violence support sector on the rise of technology-facilitated abuse

Fragments of the Past: Curating Peer Support with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence

I Feel Like We’re Really Behind the Game’: Perspectives of the United Kingdom’s Intimate Partner Violence Support Sector on the Rise of Technology-Facilitated Abuse

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