RT Article
T1 Image-Based Sexual Abuse as a Means of Coercive Control: Victim-Survivor Experiences
JF Violence against women
VO 29
IS 6/7
SP 1206
OP 1226
A1 Henry, Nicola
A2 Gavey, Nicola 1960-
A2 Johnson, Kelly
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1843247062
AB Scholars and practitioners increasingly acknowledge the ways that abusive partners create, distribute, or threaten to distribute intimate images without consent, yet little empirical research has comprehensively explored image-based sexual abuse within intimate partner contexts. This article responds to this gap and reports on the findings of a study involving interviews with 29 women and one gender-diverse person who experienced image-based sexual abuse as part of a pattern of “coercive control.” The authors argue that abusive partners use intimate imagery as a means of exerting power and control, and as a tactic of intimidation, entrapment, and degradation. They note that law, policy, and practice responses should recognize the gendered nature of image-based sexual abuse and its growing use as a means of coercive control.
K1 Coercive Control
K1 Domestic Violence
K1 intimate partner abuse
K1 nonconsensual pornography
K1 Image-based sexual abuse
DO 10.1177/10778012221114918