A Critical Examination of the Influences of Intimate Partner Violence, Help-Seeking, and Social Identity on Women’s Experiences Seeking and Obtaining Civil Protection Orders

This research describes women’s engagement with the civil legal system as a safety strategy when experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV). Using a critical lens, it explores how violence victimization, help-seeking, and social identities influence victim-survivors’ decisions to seek civil protec...

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VerfasserInnen: Bagwell-Gray, Meredith E. (VerfasserIn) ; Messing, Jill T. (VerfasserIn) ; Durfee, Alesha A. (VerfasserIn) ; Spearman, Kathryn J. (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2025
In: Women & criminal justice
Jahr: 2025, Band: 35, Heft: 3, Seiten: 173-190
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Intimate Partner Violence
Intersectionality
criminal legal system
civil protection orders
Civil legal system
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Zusammenfassung:This research describes women’s engagement with the civil legal system as a safety strategy when experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV). Using a critical lens, it explores how violence victimization, help-seeking, and social identities influence victim-survivors’ decisions to seek civil protection orders (POs) and whether they obtain them. Using cross-sectional survey methods, we recruited women experiencing IPV in relationships with men (N = 660) from ten emergency shelters in a metropolitan region of the southwestern United States. Violence and help-seeking predicted whether victim-survivors sought POs, whereas social identities predicted whether they received them, revealing the influence of social identities on civil justice outcomes.
ISSN:1541-0323
DOI:10.1080/08974454.2023.2167060