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Purpose <p>This research aims to inform practice and research conversations about survivor preferences related to the U.S. criminal legal system response by centering the voices and perspectives of women whose male partners were arrested and convicted of domestic violence for harming them and then received court-ordered consequences.</p> Method <p>The first author interviewed 26 diverse women whose abusive partners had been court mandated to attend battering intervention. Utilizing feminist standpoint and intersectionality theories, the authors analyzed the 26 redacted de-identified interview transcripts. The authors then engaged in a multi-stage open thematic coding process.</p> Results <p>Analysis of the women’s systems interactions revealed that they found many aspects of the legal systems’ response inadequate and often uncoordinated. Women also shared that they felt validated by timely systems responses that foregrounded their needs and facilitated their informed autonomous decision making and safety. The authors theorize that these accounts reflect a desire for more effective and coordinated responses across systems, as they provide important insights on what promotes survivor agency and safety.</p> Conclusion <p>There is support among female domestic violence survivors for the use of the criminal legal system in promoting their agency and safety. However, the women in this project did not experience their community’s coordinated response as adequately meeting their needs. This suggests the appropriate coordinated community response mechanisms were not in place. The findings have broad implications for practice and research that highlight the necessity of centering survivors’ perspectives when seeking to improve legal and extra-legal systems responses to domestic violence.</p>

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Centering Domestic Violence Survivor Voices: A Call for Holistic Survivor-Centered Systems Responsiveness

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  • 发表日期：

    2025年3月1日

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  • Lisa Young Larance,
  • Richard M. Tolman,
  • Morgan A. Simpson,
  • Mary Florence Sullivan

摘要

Purpose

This research aims to inform practice and research conversations about survivor preferences related to the U.S. criminal legal system response by centering the voices and perspectives of women whose male partners were arrested and convicted of domestic violence for harming them and then received court-ordered consequences.

Method

The first author interviewed 26 diverse women whose abusive partners had been court mandated to attend battering intervention. Utilizing feminist standpoint and intersectionality theories, the authors analyzed the 26 redacted de-identified interview transcripts. The authors then engaged in a multi-stage open thematic coding process.

Results

Analysis of the women’s systems interactions revealed that they found many aspects of the legal systems’ response inadequate and often uncoordinated. Women also shared that they felt validated by timely systems responses that foregrounded their needs and facilitated their informed autonomous decision making and safety. The authors theorize that these accounts reflect a desire for more effective and coordinated responses across systems, as they provide important insights on what promotes survivor agency and safety.

Conclusion

There is support among female domestic violence survivors for the use of the criminal legal system in promoting their agency and safety. However, the women in this project did not experience their community’s coordinated response as adequately meeting their needs. This suggests the appropriate coordinated community response mechanisms were not in place. The findings have broad implications for practice and research that highlight the necessity of centering survivors’ perspectives when seeking to improve legal and extra-legal systems responses to domestic violence.