“Victims’ Perceptions Of Police Response To Intimate Partner Violence", Amy Leisenring
Dec 2011
“Victims’ Perceptions Of Police Response To Intimate Partner Violence", Amy Leisenring
Amy Leisenring
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‘Whoa! They Could’Ve Arrested Me!’ Unsuccessful Identity Claims Of Women During Police Response To Intimate Partner Violence, Amy Leisenring
Dec 2010
‘Whoa! They Could’Ve Arrested Me!’ Unsuccessful Identity Claims Of Women During Police Response To Intimate Partner Violence, Amy Leisenring
Amy Leisenring
Many jurisdictions in the U.S. have implemented mandatory arrest policies in an attempt to limit police officers’ discretion in their arrest decisions when responding to intimate partner violence calls. Drawing from semi-structured interviews with female victims of intimate partner violence, I explore the ways in which mandatory arrest policies have influenced the identity work of women during their interactions with police officers. I focus specifically on women’s “unsuccessful” identity claims: situations where women are unable to convince police officers that they are victims and situations where women are unable to convince officers that they are not victims. I examine the …
Controversies Surrounding Mandatory Arrest Policies And The Police Response To Intimate Partner Violence, Amy Leisenring
Dec 2007
Controversies Surrounding Mandatory Arrest Policies And The Police Response To Intimate Partner Violence, Amy Leisenring
Amy Leisenring
Since the early 1970s, the efforts of the battered women’s movement have led to many changes in the criminal justice response to intimate partner violence (often referred to more broadly as ‘domestic violence’) in the USA. One important reform has been the implementation of policies that encourage or mandate the arrest of offenders. However, mandatory arrest policies have been hotly debated by scholars, activists, and criminal justice system officials. In this article, I review the recent changes to the ways in which police officers respond to intimate partner violence and discuss the controversies surrounding these changes in light of recent …
Confronting ‘Victim’ Discourses: The Identity Work Of Battered Women, Amy Leisenring
Dec 2005
Confronting ‘Victim’ Discourses: The Identity Work Of Battered Women, Amy Leisenring
Amy Leisenring
In this article I explore how battered women both draw from and reject victim discourses in their processes of self-construction and self-representation. Data gathered from semi-structured interviews with forty women who experienced violence from an intimate partner in a heterosexual relationship demonstrate that available "victim" discourses are both enabling and constraining. Four common representations of a victim emerged as more influential to women identity work: as someone who suffers a harm she cannot control; as someone who deserves sympathy and/or requires some type of action be taken against the victimizer; as someone who is culpable for her experiences; and as …
Battered Women Whose Cases Have Gone Through The System: The Role Of Social Support, Heather C. Melton, Joanne Belknap, Cris M. Sullivan, Ruth Fleury-Steiner, Amy Leisenring
Jul 2003
Battered Women Whose Cases Have Gone Through The System: The Role Of Social Support, Heather C. Melton, Joanne Belknap, Cris M. Sullivan, Ruth Fleury-Steiner, Amy Leisenring
Amy Leisenring
This paper explores the role of social support in the lives of battered women whose cases have gone through the criminal justice system. Using longitudinal data collected from almost 200 battered women whose cases went through the criminal justice system in three jurisdictions in the United States, explored are the types of support they received, variations in who receives support, differences between informal support and formal support, and the implications of social support in terms of violence and victims use of the criminal justice system.
