“…Sofie's story spoke not only of backlash dynamics in her violent relationship, but also of feeling punished or threatened by societal organizations after having reported the violence. This corresponds with research pointing to some IPVAW victims’ experiences of revictimization through contact with legal, healthcare, or social service organizations in Sweden ( Agevall, 2012 ; Brännvall, 2016 ; Häggblom & Möller, 2007 ; Pratt-Eriksson et al, 2014 ; Örmon & Hörberg, 2016 ; Ulmestig & Panican, 2015 ), or of such institutions being felt to do the perpetrator's bidding ( Bruno, 2018 ; Eriksson & Ulmestig, 2021 ; Jarnkvist, 2015 ; Jarnkvist & Brännström, 2016 ). Such experiences are associated with tendencies towards victim-blaming ( Bengtsson-Tops et al, 2009 ; Pratt-Eriksson et al., 2014 ; Örmon et al., 2014 ), which are in turn linked to individual-oriented ways of understanding IPVAW and related assumptions of existing gender equality ( Ekström, 2018 ; Hoppstadius, 2018 ; Mattsson, 2011 ).…”