Rural Australian Women's Legal Help Seeking for Intimate Partner Violence: Women Intimate Partner Violence Victim Survivors' Perceptions of Criminal Justice Support Services

Autor/in	Ragusa, Angela T.
Titel	Rural Australian Women's Legal Help Seeking for Intimate Partner Violence: Women Intimate Partner Violence Victim Survivors' Perceptions of Criminal Justice Support Services
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 28 (2013) 4, S.685-717 (33 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260512455864
Schlagwörter	Rural Areas; Females; Family Violence; Legal Aid; Help Seeking; Interviews; Police; Courts; Cultural Differences; Social Differences; Power Structure; Crime; Social Justice; Victims of Crime; Sociology; Social Bias; Social Characteristics; Employment Level; Ethnicity; Pregnancy; Family Structure; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Weibliches Geschlecht; Help-seeking behavior; Help-seeking behaviour; Hilfe suchendes Verhalten; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Court; Gerichtshof; Kultureller Unterschied; Sozialer Unterschied; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Soziologie; Gesellschaftsbild; Beschäftigungsgrad; Ethnizität; Schwangerschaft; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a widespread, ongoing, and complex global social problem, whose victims continue to be largely women. Women often prefer to rely on friends and family for IPV help, yet when informal support is unavailable they remain hesitant to contact formal services, particularly legal support for many reasons. This study applies a sociological lens by framing the IPV and legal help-seeking experiences of rural Australian women gained from 36 in-depth face-to-face interviews as socially contextualized interactions. Findings reveal police and court responses reflect broader social inequalities and rurality exacerbates concerns such as anonymity and lack of service. Cultural differences and power imbalances between survivors and formal support providers are manifested to inform future research seeking to improve survivors' willingness to engage and satisfaction with formal services. Finally, the important role police and the criminal justice system play in de-stigmatizing IPV and legitimating its unacceptability is argued a crucial, yet unrecognized, key to social change. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10