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Record ID: cafce9b6-c2f9-4974-874b-b08e867c70db
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895819898513
Type: Journal Article
Title: ‘Listen to me, his behaviour is erratic and I’m really worried for our safety . . .’: Help-seeking in the context of coercive control
Authors: Zerk, Rebecca
Wydall, Sarah
Keywords: Intimate Partner Violence;Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement;Help-Seeking Barriers;Intimate Partner Homicide
Year: 2021
Publisher: Sage Journals
Abstract:  This article explores 12 female victim-survivors’ experiences of seeking protection from criminal justice agencies in Dyfed-Powys, an area in Wales. The discussion draws on rich qualitative data, from a series of narrative interviews held in 2015, which offers new insights into how coercive and controlling behaviours influence ‘help-seeking’. The findings suggest that for 12 women, deemed to be high-risk, the experience of actively engaging with criminal justice agencies, served to instil in them a sense that they were alone at the most dangerous period in their help-seeking journey, namely the juncture of leaving, without formal protection. Under-enforcement by justice agents resulted in what Stubbs terms ‘non-feasance’: a process whereby women are unable to access protection from the law, thus potentially increasing the propensity for lethal violence.
URI: https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/13004
ISSN: 1748-8966
Journal Title: Criminology & Criminal Justice
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