The Social Construction of Roles in Intimate Partner Violence: Is the Victim/Perpetrator Model the only Viable one?

Cannon, Clare; Buttell, Frederick P.

doi:10.1007/s10896-016-9883-2

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“…Mediation is one such context and stories about IPV and coercive control in relationships are, now, highly resonant in mediations. The traditional understanding of IPV that asserts men are the abusers and women are the victims (Cannon and Buttell, 2016) has, importantly, been nuanced in both research studies and in mediators’ understandings of violence, as our data suggest, to recognize all forms of victimization. However, the neutrality and impartiality required by mediator codes may require ignoring or rejecting feminist understandings of underlying gendered social power rooted in patterns of gendered labor that can also matter in mediations (Bollen et al , 2013), both in addition to and concurrent with experiences of IPV.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 79%

“…Instead, invoking a poststructuralist feminist critique, we recognize that gender intersects with power and violence in ways affected by privilege. Such enactments are then interpreted by others such as mediators, through the lens of a gendered hierarchy (Cannon and Buttell, 2016). Acknowledging those interpretations and their effects and improving systems such as mediation where those interpretations are vital to equitable resolutions, are important feminist strategies for social justice (Kelly, 2011).…”

Section: Family Law Mediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Coercive control can be an important element of IPV[2] and, “it is in the mediation context that coercive control may be the most detrimental to victims” (Beck and Raghavan, 2010, p. 556). For Stark (2009), coercive control derives from men’s patriarchal efforts to restrict women’s gains under feminism– an inclusive understanding of IPV that reflects the traditional feminist paradigm of men abusing women (Cannon and Buttell, 2016). It includes “tactics to intimidate, isolate, humiliate, exploit, regulate and micromanage women’s enactment of everyday life” (Stark, 2009, p. 171–72) – strategies that may preclude a fair mediation resolution.…”

Section: Intimate Partner Violence and Mediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Negotiating violence in family law mediation

Behounek¹,

Miller²

2021

JACPR

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand mediation in divorce cases where intimate partner violence (IPV) is a concern. These cases may involve managing power imbalances, coercive control or risk for continued violence. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, the authors use feminist and sociological theoretical approaches and grounded theory to analyze triangulated ethnographic data to explore how mediators construct and manage the issue of IPV in mediation. Findings The results indicate that mediators often share a common discourse about IPV that asserts that mediators are professionals with the skills to both identify IPV and to appropriately conduct mediations where IPV is present. However, to achieve successful mediations mediators sometimes choose to discount the seriousness of IPV in assessments. They also use a set of fluid strategies to handle potential power imbalances that allow them to represent themselves as unbiased, even while those strategies risk the equity of the mediation. Practical implications The authors share several strategies that could enhance the social justice of the process for all parties, including uniformity in assessing whether IPV is a concern and oversight of mediators’ practices and training. Social implications The results indicate mediators often share a common discourse about IPV that asserts mediators are professionals with the skills to identify IPV and to appropriately conduct mediations where IPV is present. To reach settlement mediators use a set of fluid mediation and accommodation strategies to handle potential power imbalances due to IPV that allow them to represent themselves as impartial, even while those strategies may risk equity in the mediation. Originality/value The unique data provide a behind-the-scenes look at mediation generated from participant observation of mediation training and actual mediations, along with interviews with 30 practicing mediators.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 79%

Section: Family Law Mediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Intimate Partner Violence and Mediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Negotiating violence in family law mediation

Behounek¹,

Miller²

2021

JACPR

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“…This discourse of males-as-perpetrators and females-as-victims has expressed and reflected dominant social hierarchies of White, heterosexual men at the top of the social pyramid, with, for instance, queer-identified women of color at the bottom of the hierarchy. However, recent scholarship (e.g., Cannon & Buttell, 2015, 2016) has begun to challenge this patriarchal analysis of IPV by arguing that the men-as-perpetrator and females-as-victim paradigm does not reflect female perpetrators or lesbian gay bisexual transgendered queer perpetrators. These studies have pointed out that White culture, as the dominant one in the United States, has defined what an IPV perpetrator and victim looks like.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Race Theory, Parenting, and Intimate Partner Violence: Analyzing Race and Gender

Cannon

Ferreira

Buttell

2018

Research on Social Work Practice

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Purpose: This study sought to investigate similarities and differences among race, gender, parenting attitudes, and conflict negotiation tactics of perpetrators of intimate partner violence in a batterer intervention program. Method: This research utilized a nonequivalent, control group secondary analysis of 238 women and men. Results: Logistic regression indicated the following: (1) An increased likelihood for scoring higher on the Conflict Tactics Scale-2 (CTS-2), Physical Assault subscale, and high-risk Adult–Adolescent Parenting Inventory-2 (AAPI-2) parenting group for those in the African American category compared to the White category; (2) African American women are more likely to be unemployed, score higher on the CTS-2 Physical Assault subscale, and in the high-risk AAPI-2 parenting group than African American men; and (3) White women, compared to White men, are more likely to experience injury and to score in the high-risk AAPI-2 group. Conclusions: Critical race theory provides a necessary understanding of these findings within structural inequality in the United States. Further results and implications are discussed.

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“…Studies using the social construction theory of violence have placed the discussions between the two poles of a dyad, that is, the perpetrator and the victim dyad. On the perpetrator side, researchers have focused on the justification for and circumstances of violence by perpetrators and the impact of violence on victims' well-being (Bosco, Schneider, Coleston-Shields, Higgs, & Orrell, 2019;Cannon & Buttell, 2016;Dalton, Jung, & Willis, 2017;Kaye, Mirembe, Ekstrom, Bantebya, & Johansson, 2005;Mehrotra, 1999;Muehlenhard & Kimes, 1999;Salter, 2016). On this side of the dyad, studies have examined perpetrators' construction of violence, which is founded on hegemonic masculinity, and concluded that manliness is associated with assertiveness, aggressiveness, independence, dominance, and violence (Bhana & Mayeza, 2016;Bozkurt, Tartanoglu, & Dawes, 2015;Taylor, das Nair, & Braham, 2013).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Survivors’ Social Construction of Intimate Partner Violence in Cebu City, Philippines

Bernados

Ocampo

2019

J Interpers Violence

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a worldwide social issue perpetrated by intimate male partners against their wives. Studies on IPV have generated accurate comparative information since the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women to guide strategy and track progress in attempts to comprehend the IPV issues. In many attempts to understand violence against women, the social construction of IPV was not well documented in the literature. This article aims to explore IPV survivors’ social construction of IPV by analyzing the experiential narratives of IPV survivors. To address the objective, this article used the phenomenological approach by examining the lived experiences of 15 IPV survivors. Our study finds that IPV made IPV survivors empowered, and with this social construction, survivors were able to overcome violence perpetrated by their intimate partners. The findings further proved that giving preferential attention to the needs of IPV victims could lead to victim empowerment, a factor needed in the elimination of violence against women and children in all forms. It is suggested for any intervention activities to (a) ultimately address the empowerment of individuals and (b) respond to the needs of individuals because what may work for one victim may not work for another.

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The Social Construction of Roles in Intimate Partner Violence: Is the Victim/Perpetrator Model the only Viable one?

Cited by 21 publications

References 25 publications

Negotiating violence in family law mediation

Negotiating violence in family law mediation

Critical Race Theory, Parenting, and Intimate Partner Violence: Analyzing Race and Gender

Survivors’ Social Construction of Intimate Partner Violence in Cebu City, Philippines

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