RT Article
T1 A Qualitative Exploration of the Impact of Increasing Criminalization on Domestic Violence Support Workers: Nonfatal Strangulation as a Case Study
JF Violence against women
VO 31
IS 14
SP 3704
OP 3727
A1 Sharman, Leah S.
A1 Douglas, Heather
A1 Fitzgerald, Robin
A2 Douglas, Heather
A2 Fitzgerald, Robin
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1938261585
AB Specialized nongovernmental domestic violence (DV) services provide critical support to victim/survivors. This research draws on 14 semistructured focus groups with 27 DV support workers to examine how expanded criminalization impacts support workers’ roles using a case study of a 2016 nonfatal strangulation offense legislated in Queensland, Australia. Our results describe a lack of governmental support intersecting with increased complexity and higher workload burden resulting from expanded criminalization. Expansions to criminal law need to account for and critically assess the full system impact of new DV legislation and the added burdens placed on the pivotal third sector of DV services.
K1 support workers
K1 Criminalization
K1 Domestic Violence
K1 choking
K1 Strangulation
DO 10.1177/10778012241289422