Generic personal safety applications : empowering victims of domestic violence and abuse? A practitioner lens
Turgoose, Di
Generic personal safety applications : empowering victims of domestic violence and abuse? A practitioner lens Di Turgoose and Ruth McKie - Ingenta, 2021 - Journal of Gender-Based Violence .
Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 2021, 5(3): 451-466
Bespoke and generic domestic violence and abuse (DVA) personal safety applications (PSAs) have become a popular choice for strategic crime prevention projects by those in the criminal justice sector to achieve justice through digital means as part of the wider digital justice project. These PSAs have been heralded as tools for the protection, empowerment and resilience building of victims in DVA, despite limited independent evaluations. This article explores the use of a generic PSA, which the police have adopted for rollout to victims of DVA in one region of the United Kingdom. We undertook a thematic analysis of data taken from a roundtable and three follow up focus groups with practitioners from the police, criminal justice, DVA specialist sector and victim services, alongside the PSA development team. We found both some support for using this PSA and serious concerns regarding its use in DVA situations. (Authors' abstract). Record #7406
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
FAMILY VIOLENCE
INTERVENTION
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
PERSONAL AND FINANCIAL SAFETY
TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY-FACILITATED ABUSE
VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
INTERNATIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM
Generic personal safety applications : empowering victims of domestic violence and abuse? A practitioner lens Di Turgoose and Ruth McKie - Ingenta, 2021 - Journal of Gender-Based Violence .
Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 2021, 5(3): 451-466
Bespoke and generic domestic violence and abuse (DVA) personal safety applications (PSAs) have become a popular choice for strategic crime prevention projects by those in the criminal justice sector to achieve justice through digital means as part of the wider digital justice project. These PSAs have been heralded as tools for the protection, empowerment and resilience building of victims in DVA, despite limited independent evaluations. This article explores the use of a generic PSA, which the police have adopted for rollout to victims of DVA in one region of the United Kingdom. We undertook a thematic analysis of data taken from a roundtable and three follow up focus groups with practitioners from the police, criminal justice, DVA specialist sector and victim services, alongside the PSA development team. We found both some support for using this PSA and serious concerns regarding its use in DVA situations. (Authors' abstract). Record #7406
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
FAMILY VIOLENCE
INTERVENTION
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
PERSONAL AND FINANCIAL SAFETY
TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY-FACILITATED ABUSE
VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
INTERNATIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM