Domestic Violence Against Men and Boys

Elizabeth A. Bates is a Principal Lecturer in Psychology and Psychological Therapies at the University of Cumbria, UK. Her research focusses on working with male victims of domestic violence including their experience of physical and psychological abuse, the impact on them, and the ways in which abuse can continue and change post-separation. Julie C. Taylor is the Head of Learning, Teaching and Student Experience within the Institute of Health at the University of Cumbria, UK. A recurrent theme of her research and practice has been meaningful stakeholder engagement and seeking to use research and evaluation methods that facilitate this. Her current research includes exploring children and young people’s experiences of domestic violence.

1. Introduction: The importance of this volume. 2. Men’s Experiences of Female-Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence. 3. Male Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Challenges to current theory and practice. 4. Intimate Partner Violence in the Lives of Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Men. 5. In Their Own Words: The Impact of Intimate Partner Violence and Coercive Control on Male Victims. 6. Post-separation experiences of abuse. 7. Barriers to help-seeking for male victims of intimate partner violence. 8. Male victims of intimate partner violence: Experiences with help seeking. 9. Children’s experiences of IPV: Men’s retrospective accounts of IPV within the family home. 10. Fathers and Intimate Partner Violence: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Current Literature on Men’s Experiences of Abuse Utilizing Children. 11. Domestic Violence Victimisation in Older Men. 12. Men’s victimization in the wider family: Child-to-parent violence and sibling violence. 13. Supporting male victims and survivors. 14. Working with male victims in therapeutic settings. 15. "What’s the point in talking about it, when I’m the one being punished for it?" Men as both perpetrator and victim of intimate partner violence. 16. Police and the Criminal Justice System: Responses to male victims. 17. Concluding thoughts: Future research directions and recommendations for practice.