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040 _aAFVC
100 _aDownes, Julia
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245 _a‘It’s a work in progress’ :
_b men’s accounts of gender and change in their use of coercive control
_cJulia Downes, Liz Kelly and Nicole Westmarland
500 _aJournal of Gender-Based Violence, 2019, 3(3): 267-282
520 _aOver the past ten years the theoretical framework of ‘coercive control’ has been increasingly applied, critiqued and now underpins a criminal offence. While many argue that it more accurately reflects experiences of victimisation, there has been little exploration of coercive control through the accounts of perpetrators. Through two phased interviews with 64 men attending UK Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programmes, we examine how and why men use coercive tactics and how unpicking gender norms enabled some men to recognise and reduce their use of coercive control. We argue that coercive control is more dynamic, contestable and open to change than previous research has suggested. Some men did manage to take steps away from investing in traditional masculine norms and reduce their use of coercive tactics. However, this was an uneven and contradictory process which took time – involving painful realisations of loss and harm alongside a discovery of the benefits associated with letting go of restrictive gender norms. Understanding how and why men invest in or dismantle gender norms that underpin coercive control has important implications for theory and for practice, particularly the content and focus of work with domestic violence perpetrators. (Authors' abstract). Record #6710
650 _aABUSIVE MEN
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650 _aATTITUDES
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650 _aBEHAVIOUR CHANGE
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650 _aCOERCIVE CONTROL
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650 _aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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650 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
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650 _aMASCULINITY
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650 _aPERPETRATOR PROGRAMMES
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650 _aPERPETRATORS
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651 _aINTERNATIONAL
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651 4 _aUNITED KINGDOM
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700 _aKelly, Liz
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700 _aWestmarland, Nicole
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773 0 _tJournal of Gender-Based Violence, 2019, 3(3): 267-282
830 _aJournal of Gender-Based Violence
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856 _uhttp://dro.dur.ac.uk/28902/
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1332/239868019X15627570242850
_zDOI: 10.1332/239868019X15627570242850
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