Journal article
Subjective Accounts of the Turning Points that Facilitate Desistance from Intimate Partner Violence
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol.61(4), pp.371-396
2017
Abstract
The transition from persistence to desistance in male perpetrators of intimate partner violence (IPV) is an understudied phenomenon. This article examines the factors that initiate and facilitate primary desistance from IPV. The narratives of 22 male perpetrators of IPV (13 desisters and 9 persisters), 7 female survivors, and 9 programme (IPV interventions) facilitators, in England, were analysed using thematic analysis. In their accounts, the participants described how the change from persister to desister did not happen as a result of discrete unique incidents but instead occurred through a number of catalysts or stimuli of change. These triggers were experienced gradually and accumulated over time in number and in type. In particular, Negative consequences of violence and Negative emotional responses needed to accumulate so that the Point of resolve: Autonomous decision to change was finally realised. This process facilitated and initiated the path of change and thus primary desistance from IPV.
Details
- Title
- Subjective Accounts of the Turning Points that Facilitate Desistance from Intimate Partner Violence
- Authors
- K Walker (Author) - Coventry University, United KingdomE Bowen (Author) - Coventry University, United KingdomSarah J Brown (Author) - Coventry University, United KingdomE Sleath (Author) - Coventry University, United Kingdom
- Publication details
- International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol.61(4), pp.371-396
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Inc.
- Date published
- 2017
- DOI
- 10.1177/0306624X15597493
- ISSN
- 0306-624X
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit; School of Law and Criminology - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450813402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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