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Abused Heterosexual Partners: Primarily Females
Chapter 8
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Blaming Victims of Intimate Partner Violence
- Case History – Hedda Nussbaum- When the protector needs protection
- Blaming by partner
- Blaming by society
- Blaming by professionals
- Blaming by shelter workers
- Blaming because of welfare needs
- Blaming by child protective service workers
- Blaming oneself
- Attitudes of faith community leaders
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Consequences of Violence
- Fear
- Neurological changes
- Stress, trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, and cumulative stress
- Stress
- Trauma
- PTSD
- Problem-solving deficits
- Coping with violence
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Consequences of Violence
- The hostage syndrome, traumatic bonding, and attachment
- Hostage syndrome
- Attachment
- Traumatic bonding
- Learned helplessness vs. survivor theory
- Perceived control
- Psychological/brain disorder effects of male-to-female intimate partner violence
- Depression
- Correlates of depression
- Mental disorder effects
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Employment
- Male-to-female IPV and barriers to employment
- Welfare assistance dilemmas
- MFIPV among welfare-reliant women
- MFIPV mothers among child welfare populations
- Obstacles to success in welfare-to-work programs
- The family violence option
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Criminal Justice System Responses to Intimate Partner Violence
- Legal issues
- Protective orders
- Using civil protection orders
- Serving protection orders
- Protective order violation rates
- Weapons
- Arrest policies
- History of inadequate legislations
- Double standard of probable cause
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Criminal Justice System Responses to Intimate Partner Violence
- Mandatory arrest
- Dual arrest
- Primary aggressor laws
- Persisting problems in law enforcement
- Philosophy of law enforcement
- Outcomes of gender-neutral law enforcement for IPV
- Law enforcement/victim interactions
- Calling the police
- Expectations of the police
- Improvements
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Criminal Justice System Responses to Intimate Partner Violence
- Criminal justice system processing
- Prosecution of MFIPV perpetrators
- Complaints
- Women’s reluctance to testify
- Judicial behavior and decision making
- Judges’ sentencing practices
- Three types of judges
- Shocking judicial behavior
- Lack of judicial training
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Effects of MFIPV on Battered Women’s Lives and Their Leave/Stay Decisions
- Leave/stay decision-making process
- Factors associated with actually leaving
- Physical assaults in leave/stay decision making
- Psychological/emotional abuse
- Entrapment
- Approach-avoidance conflicts
- Do battered women stay?
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Effects of MFIPV on Battered Women’s Lives and Their Leave/Stay Decisions
- Dangers of leaving an abusive partner
- Worries about a backlash
- Dangerous assaults associated with leaving
- Forgiveness
- Economic dependence and its diffuse impact
- Women’s economic dependency and leaving
- The radiating impact of IPV
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Effects of MFIPV on Battered Women’s Lives and Their Leave/Stay Decisions
- Society’s inadequate support for battered women
- Responses by faith communities
- Effectiveness of clergy counseling
- Recommending change
- Welfare failures and leave/stay decisions
- Shelters and transitional supportive housing and leaving
- Shelter help
- Transitional supportive housing
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Effects of MFIPV on Battered Women’s Lives and Their Leave/Stay Decisions
- Emotional factors in leave/stay decisions
- Relationship commitment
- Investment model
- Relationship hope
- Marital dissatisfaction and leaving
- Attachment needs
- Afraid to leave and afraid to stay – approach-avoidance conflict
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Male Victims of Intimate Partner Violence (FMIPV)
- How much of a problem?
- Cluster analysis of male and female IPV-involved individuals
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