“Living in the darkness”: technology-facilitated coercive control, disenfranchised grief, and institutional betrayal Delanie Woodlock, Micheal Salter, Molly Dragiewicz and Bridget Harris
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TextSeries: Australian Social WorkPublication details: Sage, 2022Subject(s): Online resources:
In: Violence Against Women, 2022, First Published online, 22 August 2022Summary: This article draws on interviews with 20 Australian women subjected to technology-facilitated coercive control (TFCC), foregrounding their accounts of grief and institutional betrayal. Findings show that while the harms of TFCC were significant, survivors’ experiences were often minimized and dismissed by justice institutions. Women experienced grief due to abuse and separation from partners who had betrayed them. This loss was compounded when seeking help. We propose that disenfranchised grief is an underexplored response to domestic violence and institutional betrayal as well as a potential intervention site, particularly in relation to technology-facilitated abuse. (Authors' abstract). Record #8038
Violence Against Women, 2022, First Published online, 22 August 2022
This article draws on interviews with 20 Australian women subjected to technology-facilitated coercive control (TFCC), foregrounding their accounts of grief and institutional betrayal. Findings show that while the harms of TFCC were significant, survivors’ experiences were often minimized and dismissed by justice institutions. Women experienced grief due to abuse and separation from partners who had betrayed them. This loss was compounded when seeking help. We propose that disenfranchised grief is an underexplored response to domestic violence and institutional betrayal as well as a potential intervention site, particularly in relation to technology-facilitated abuse. (Authors' abstract). Record #8038