TY  - SER
AU  - Brennan, Iain R.
AU  - Burton, Victoria
AU  - Gormally, Sinéad
AU  - O'Leary, Nicola
TI  - Service provider difficulties in operationalizing coercive control
PY  - 2018///
PB  - Sage, 
KW  - COERCIVE CONTROL
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - INTERVENTION
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - SUPPORT SERVICES
KW  - UNITED KINGDOM
N1  - Violence Against Women, 2018, Advance online publication, 21 September 2018
N2  - The authors examined perspectives of social workers, police officers, and specialist domestic abuse practitioners about their perceived ability and organizational readiness to respond effectively to incidents of coercive and controlling behavior. Interviews revealed intervention and risk assessment strategies structured around an outdated, maladaptive concept of domestic abuse as an unambiguous and violent event and frontline services that lacked appreciation of the power dynamics inherent in controlling relationships. The analysis demonstrates how lack of definitional clarity around nonphysical domestic abuse can increase the use of discretion by frontline services and, by extension, increase the discounting of coercive control by pressured frontline officers. (Authors' abstract). Record #6025
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1077801218797478
ER  -