Desisting from Domestic Abuse: Influences, Patterns and Processes in the Lives of Formerly Abusive Men

David Morran

doi:10.1111/hojo.12016

Desisting from Domestic Abuse: Influences, Patterns and Processes in the Lives of Formerly Abusive Men

The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice ◽

10.1111/hojo.12016 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 52 (3) ◽

pp. 306-320 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

David Morran

Keyword(s):

Domestic Abuse ◽

Patterns And Processes ◽

Abusive Men

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Beyond the Power and Control Wheel: how abusive men manipulate mobile phone technologies to facilitate coercive control

Journal of Gender-Based Violence ◽

10.1332/239868020x15850131608789 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 223-239 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tirion Elizabeth Havard ◽

Michelle Lefevre

Keyword(s):

Mobile Phone ◽

Digital Media ◽

Mobile Phones ◽

Domestic Abuse ◽

Specific Information ◽

Coercive Control ◽

Power And Control ◽

Control Wheel ◽

And Control ◽

Abusive Men

Mobile phone ownership has become almost universal, with smartphones the most popular consumer electronics device. While the role of technologies and digital media in the domestic abuse of women is gaining international attention, specific information regarding how mobile phones, and their various ‘apps’, may assist perpetrators in the coercive control of their current or former partners is still a relatively unexplored area in the research literature. This study with women survivors was able to identify that perpetrators use mobile phones in ways that go beyond the traditional tactics of abuse identified through the globally used feminist theorisation of the Power and Control Wheel (developed by the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Programme). The portability and diverse capabilities of mobile phones have been manipulated by abusive men to develop strategies of ‘agile technological surveillance’, which allow them to track and monitor their partners in various ways ‘on the go’ and irrespective of physical proximity. An adaptation of the Power and Control Wheel has been developed and licensed to account for these new opportunities for surveillance, manipulation and control. Proposals are made for integrating this revised framework into professional practice to inform the assessment and management of risk in abusive relationships.

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Lessons from the Integrated Domestic Abuse Programme, for the implementation of Building Better Relationships

Probation Journal ◽

10.1177/0264550517701199 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 64 (2) ◽

pp. 129-145 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Will Hughes

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Criminal Justice ◽

Group Dynamics ◽

Domestic Abuse ◽

Successful Implementation ◽

Service Users ◽

Duluth Model ◽

Domestic Violence Perpetrators ◽

Abusive Men ◽

Individual Service

This paper offers reflections on the Integrated Domestic Abuse Programme (IDAP), and its implications for the Building Better Relationships programme (BBR), which has now replaced IDAP as the main criminal justice intervention for male domestic violence perpetrators in England and Wales. While the BBR programme should be regarded with optimism, many of the principles underpinning IDAP are of ongoing relevance for practice with abusive men. There has been a tendency to distort IDAP and the broader Duluth model in discussions of interventions for perpetrators of domestic abuse. Although the BBR programme constitutes some changes of direction, its successful implementation requires continuity in the application of facilitator judgement, knowledge of group dynamics, non-judgemental dialogue, willingness to ‘challenge’, and responsiveness to individual service users.

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