Interpersonal violence and abuse in young people’s relationships in five European countries: online and offline normalisation of heteronormativity

Aghtaie, Nadia; Larkins, Cath; Barter, Christine; Stanley, Nicky; Wood, Marsha; Överlien, Carolina

doi:10.1332/239868018x15263879270302

Cited by 37 publications

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“…Studies on technology-facilitated abuse that include the impact of behaviours such as injury, fear or protective action as proxies for contextual information provide information that can be helpful to interpreting crude prevalence data. These studies suggest that girls and young women experience abuse differently and experience more harm from technology-facilitated abuse (Barter et al, 2009;Aghtaie et al, 2018;Reed et al, 2016;Ybarra et al, 2017). For example, 12 per cent of participants in the Data & Society/CiPHR Cyberabuse Survey (Ybarra et al, 2017) of US internet users aged 15 years and older reported intimate partner digital abuse.…”

Section: Technology and Domestic Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Digital media and domestic violence in Australia: essential contexts

Dragiewicz

Harris

Woodlock

et al. 2021

Journal of Gender-Based Violence

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Domestic violence is a pervasive social problem in Australia. Digital media are increasingly integral to its dynamics. Technology-facilitated coercive control (TFCC) is a form of gender-based violence. This article examines domestic violence survivors’ experiences with TFCC, drawing on interviews with 20 Australian women. Study results enhance understanding of how abusers use digital media. We highlight four key contexts for understanding the role of technology in domestic violence: the coercive and controlling relationship, separation abuse, co-parenting and survivors’ safety work. These contexts provide insight into the dynamics of TFCC and illuminate key differences between this and other forms of online abuse. Key messages <ul><li>Technology is integral to coercive control.</li> <li>Separation and co-parenting are key sites of technology-facilitated coercive control.</li> <li>Survivors manage technology-facilitated abuse in the absence of adequate responses and support.</li></ul>

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Section: Technology and Domestic Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Digital media and domestic violence in Australia: essential contexts

Dragiewicz

Harris

Woodlock

et al. 2021

Journal of Gender-Based Violence

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“…Some research documents correlations between in-person abuse and technology-facilitated stalking (Aghtaie et al, 2018;Marganski and Melander, 2018). Interviews with victim-survivors of image-based sexual abuse demonstrate that it is often perpetrated as part of a pattern of domestic violence (Henry et al, 2020).…”

Section: Ogbv Directly Facilitates Offline Violence and Creates 'Climates Of Unsafety' Within Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Evidence on the Prevalence and Impact of Online Gender-based Violence (OGBV)

Hicks¹

2021

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This rapid review updates a previous report (Fraser and Martineau-Searle, 2018) with evidence from 2018 onwards. It finds an evidence base on online gender-based violence (OGBV) covering a wider range of countries than the previous report. Some key findings on the nature and prevalence of OGBV include: The most recent surveys show a prevalence of OGBV ranging from 16% to 58%; Men and boys also experience online abuse in high numbers, but it is less likely to be gender-based; Several studies from different countries identify Facebook as the top location for incidents of OGBV; Higher levels of online harassment and abuse are faced by people with intersecting inequality factors; According to victim-survivors, perpetrators are more likely to be unknown and acting alone, but large numbers are known to the victims. Perpetrators themselves report divergent, multifaceted and often over-lapping motivations for their actions; Analysis of underlying drivers of OGBV highlights an overarching theme of power and control, and heteronormative expectations around gender roles and sexual practice. Many authors recommend that OGBV be understood as part of a continuum of abuse where normalised behaviours, such as sexual harassment in public spaces, shade into behaviours widely recognized as criminal, such as physical assault. The societal impact of OGBV includes: Media freedom is compromised; Democracy being undermined; Economic losses resulting from lost productivity; A ‘climate of unsafety’ prevails. Evidence base: The number of surveys about self-reported experiences with online harassment has increased rapidly. The majority of the research found during the course of this rapid review came from international and domestic non-governmental organisations and think-tanks. Academic research studies were also found, including several literature reviews.

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“…Despite persistent attention to bullying in the last 50 years, bullying in school remains high. Recent studies have found that sexual abuse and violence from boyfriends is to a large extent normalized as part of heterosexual relations among young people today (Aghtaie et al, 2018).…”

Section: Institutional Failures Missed Opportunities and The Universal Welfare Statementioning

confidence: 99%

The social dynamics of revictimization and intimate partner violence: an embodied, gendered, institutional and life course perspective

Bjørnholt

2019

Nordic Journal of Criminology

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This article offers a qualitative, institutional analysis of the dynamics of revictimization as the accumulation of disadvantages over time and across different institutional contexts, and its multiple gender dimensions. It draws on 37 qualitative interviews with victims of intimate partner violence, detailing the institutional causal pathways to victimization and revictimization over the life course, through the in-depth analysis of one case. Drawing on the vulnerability approach, developed by Martha Albertson Fineman, the analysis demonstrates how victimization and revictimization have been facilitated, tolerated, and even produced by particular institutional contexts, illustrating how the risk of revictimization is not a characteristic of the individual, nor is it destiny. The article contributes to a constructive social science, elucidating how victimization is contingent on social and institutional contexts, and how at several critical points, better institutions and better institutional responses to particular events might have prevented or interrupted the dynamics of accumulating victimization. Focusing on embodied, gendered subjects and the role of institutions in producing as well as remedying inequalities has far-reaching implications for research and prevention of violence. In contrast to a risk-factor approach targeting particular groups and individuals, a vulnerability analysis calls for a responsive state and universal institutional solutions.

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Interpersonal violence and abuse in young people’s relationships in five European countries: online and offline normalisation of heteronormativity

Cited by 37 publications

References 18 publications

Digital media and domestic violence in Australia: essential contexts

Digital media and domestic violence in Australia: essential contexts

Global Evidence on the Prevalence and Impact of Online Gender-based Violence (OGBV)

The social dynamics of revictimization and intimate partner violence: an embodied, gendered, institutional and life course perspective

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