Domestic violence and multi-agency risk assessment conferences (MARACs): a scoping review

Robbins, Rachel; McLaughlin, Hugh; Banks, Concetta; Bellamy, Claire; Thackray, Debbie

doi:10.1108/jap-03-2014-0012

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“…Domestic violence has long been recognised by scholars as being an issue of power and control as much as it is one of physical violence and coercion (Dobash & Dobash, 1992;Gondolf, 2007; O'Leary, 1999; Øverlien, 2013). The legal frameworks that support social services and criminal justice intervention in situations of domestic violence have historically prioritised physical violence, and the management of the risk in relationships where violence occurs (Robbins, McLaughlin, Banks, Bellam, & Thackray, 2014). As we have noted, the historical definition restricts our legal understanding of domestic violence to intimate relationships, predominantly in adult dyads.…”

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Beyond “Witnessing”: Children’s Experiences of Coercive Control in Domestic Violence and Abuse

Callaghan

Alexander

Sixsmith

et al. 2015

J Interpers Violence

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Children's experiences and voices are underrepresented in academic literature and professional practice around domestic violence and abuse. The project 'Understanding Agency and Resistance Strategies' addresses this absence, through direct engagement with children. We present an analysis from interviews with 21 children in the United Kingdom (12 girls and 9 boys, aged 8-18 years), about their experiences of domestic violence and abuse, and their responses to this violence. These interviews were analysed using interpretive interactionism. Three themes from this analysis are presented: a) 'Children's experiences of abusive control', which explores children's awareness of controlling behaviour by the adult perpetrator, their experience of that control, and its impact on them; b) 'Constraint', which explores how children experience the constraint associated with coercive control in situations of domestic violence, and c) 'Children as agents' which explores children's strategies for managing controlling behaviour in their home and in family relationships. The paper argues that, in situations where violence and abuse occurs between adult intimate partners, children are significantly impacted, and can be reasonably described as victims of abusive control. Recognising children as direct victims of domestic violence and abuse would produce significant changes in the way professionals respond to them, by 1) recognising children's experience of the impact of domestic violence and abuse; 2) recognising children's agency, undermining the perception of them as passive 'witnesses' or 'collateral damage' in adult abusive encounters; and 3) strengthening professional responses to them as direct victims, not as passive witnesses to violence.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond “Witnessing”: Children’s Experiences of Coercive Control in Domestic Violence and Abuse

Callaghan

Alexander

Sixsmith

et al. 2015

J Interpers Violence

181

166

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“…The MARACs support victims at the highest risk of high harm from domestic abuse (Robbins et al 2014). …”

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Integrated case management of repeated intimate partner violence: a randomized, controlled trial

Goosey

Sherman²,

Neyroud

2017

Camb J Evid Based Polic

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Research Question Can integrated case management by a multi-agency partnership of the relations between offenders and victims with repeated incidents of intimate partner violence (IPV) reduce the frequency or severity of harm from that violence? Data Three batches of 60 IPV dyads were enrolled in a trial, with data collected on services delivered to them and police records for 2 years before and 2 years after random assignment to treatment and control groups. Methods The study measured the delivery of all three elements of treatment offered: (1) victim support through Berkshire Women's Aid, (2) one-to-one perpetrator counselling through motivational interviewing techniques and (3) follow-up visits to the home addresses of perpetrators and victims. The outcomes for each couple in severity of harm were compared in a before-after, difference-of-differences analysis of Cambridge Crime Harm Index scores. After-only frequency of non-criminal domestic conflict events was also compared. Findings Delivery of programme elements was highly variable, but more intense in the treatment group than in control, especially in terms of police visits to offenders (T = 60%, C = zero). Mean difference between 24 months of post-random assignment and the 24 months baseline period for C cases was an increase of 4.15 Cambridge Crime Harm Index (CHI) prison days, while T cases had a mean change of 8.85 fewer CHI days in prison in post-assignment than in baseline. This difference was significant with outliers removed, but not with two control group baseline cases included. There was also a substantially higher rate of frequency of non-crime events in the 24 months after random assignment in T (112) than in C (85). Camb J Evid Based Polic (2017) Conclusions The overall effect of the programme appeared to have been beneficial, as measured by the Crime Harm Index. The evidence cannot specify how much of that benefit was caused by the more consistent police visits to offenders versus other elements of the programme for both victims and offenders.

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“…Professional bodies, similarly, will have concerns over the public and private conduct of their members or professional associates, and would want to see those 'risky' individuals barred from working in that arena (Pitt-Payne, 2009;Lageson, Vuolo and Uggen, 2014). In recent years, these disparate strands have been woven together in the non-statutory setting of the 'multi-agency risk assessment conference' or 'MARAC', used for a variety of purposes across many dimensions of public protection work in the UK (Robbins et al, 2014).…”

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Better information sharing, or “share or be damned”?

Grace

2015

The Journal of Adult Protection

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the ramifications of developments in surveillance policies and technologies for information sharing cultures in a “public protection routine”. Design/methodology/approach – This conceptual paper uses a mixed theoretical, legal and policy-based approach to inform this exploration of the ramifications of developments in surveillance policies and technologies. Findings – This conceptual paper concludes that developments in surveillance policies and technologies as part of the “public protection routine” will result in a damaging and hasty culture of “share or be damned” unless a more careful approach to new information sharing approaches is developed. Otherwise, an increasing bureaucratisation of risk management through surveillance will lead to a disregard for the fine balance between public protection, procedural rights and privacy. Originality/value – The originality and value of this conceptual paper is considerable – as some of the case studies discussed are very recent ones, and ones that represent an acceleration of the problems within the “public protection routine” which this paper seeks to unpick.

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Domestic violence and multi-agency risk assessment conferences (MARACs): a scoping review

Cited by 28 publications

References 16 publications

Beyond “Witnessing”: Children’s Experiences of Coercive Control in Domestic Violence and Abuse

Beyond “Witnessing”: Children’s Experiences of Coercive Control in Domestic Violence and Abuse

Integrated case management of repeated intimate partner violence: a randomized, controlled trial

Better information sharing, or “share or be damned”?

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