Technology and Domestic and Family Violence

Bridget Harris is an Associate Professor/Reader of Criminology and Deputy Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre at Monash University (Victoria, Australia) and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. Bridget conducts research on domestic and family violence, violence against women, the use of technology to enact and respond to harm, digital coercive control, and violence against women in rural areas. Delanie Woodlock has been working in domestic violence and sexual assault for over 15 years, providing support to victim-survivors, as well as conducting internationally recognised research in both the community and academia. She is a research fellow at Monash University in the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation. Her research has focused on violence against women with disabilities, the impact of abuse on women’s trauma, the use of technology in domestic violence, child sexual abuse material and violence against women in rural and regional Australia.

PART 1: Conceptualising, categorising, and measuring harm

1. Weaponising technology in intimate relationships: An introduction and overview
Bridget Harris and Delanie Woodlock

2. Characteristics of technology- facilitated domestic violence
Jordana N. Navarro and Shelly Clevenger

3. Technology- facilitated abuse: The need for Indigenous-led research and response
Bronwyn Carlson and Madi Day

4. Best- practice principles for measurement of technology-facilitated coercive control
Molly Dragiewicz

PART 2 Specific technologies and forms of harm

5. Cyberstalking in the context of intimate relationships:Who’s monitoring the monitors?
Brianna O’Shea, Jeremy Prichard, and Helen Cockburn

6. Technology- facilitated abuse and the internet of things (IoT): The implication of the smart, internet- connected devices on domestic violence and abuse
Leonie Maria Tanczer

7. The new Panopticon: Women’s experiences of mobile phone- mediated coercive control within abusive relationships
Tirion Havard and Michelle Lefevre

PART 3 Victimisation of cohorts and communities

8. Digital abuse of women with disabilities
Delanie Woodlock and Bridget Harris

9. The co- option of children in relation to intimate partner violence and the use of technology
Heather Douglas

10. Technology- facilitated domestic violence: Some queer considerations
Bianca Fileborn and Matthew Ball

11. Remote-control: Regional, rural, and remote women’s experiences of digital coercive control
Bridget Harris and Delanie Woodlock

PART 4 Harnessing technology

12. Domestic violence disclosure schemes: The opportunities and limits of technology and information sharing
Sandra Walklate and Kate Fitz- Gibbon

13. Technological resources for people experiencing and using violence in their intimate relationships: Moving beyond safety and referral
Laura Tarzia and Kelsey Hegarty

14. How Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) uses technology to respond to online gender- based violence
Sandra Aceng

15. Emergent best practices in trauma-informed design from Chayn’s interventions with and for survivors of technology abuse
Hera Hussain

16. Spaceless violence: Concluding thoughts and
future steps
Bridget Harris and Delanie Woodlock