Research Handbook on Domestic Violence and Abuse

Edited by Mandy Burton, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, Leicester Law School, University of Leicester, Vanessa Bettinson, Professor of Law, Kayliegh Richardson, Assistant Professor and Ana Speed, Assistant Professor and Solicitor, Northumbria Law School, University of Northumbria, UK

Contents

1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Domestic Violence and Abuse 1
Mandy Burton, Vanessa Bettinson, Kayliegh Richardson and Ana Speed
PART I DEFINING DOMESTIC ABUSE AND CONTEXTS
2 Defining coercive control: Problems and possibilities 9
Cassandra Wiener
3 Sharing and/or threatening to share private, sexual images without
consent as an emerging strategy of coercive control 29
Charlotte Bishop
4 Chronic sexual violation: Sameness and difference – the challenge of
recognising violation in relationships 44
Tanya Palmer
5 Silent suffering: LGBTQ+ intimate partner violence unveiled 62
Esra Ummak
6 The intersection of domestic violence, culture, social marginalisation
and entrapment for Indigenous Women 77
Denise Wilson
7 Christianity and domestic abuse 95
Rebecca Barnes and Kristin Aune
8 Conceptualising domestic abuse in human rights law 115
Ronagh McQuigg
PART II PROTECTION ORDERS
9 Will domestic abuse protection notices and orders improve victim
protection and assure the United Kingdom’s compliance with the
Istanbul Convention? 131
Claire Bessant
10 Civil protection orders when crossing jurisdictional lines: Gaps in the
law and a call for reform to better protect victims of domestic abuse 150
Ana Speed and Lauren Clayton-Helm
11 ‘We’re not the polite police’: LGBTQ+ domestic and family violence
victim-survivors’ experiences with legal actors when seeking help via
the civil protection order system in Australia 169
Ellen Reeves
12 Can law provide survivors with safety? Legal mobilization, legal
consciousness, and protection order decision-making 185
Kathryn J. Spearman, Alesha Durfee, Jill Theresa Messing and Meredith E.
Bagwell-Gray
13 The financial remedy application and beyond: To what extent is the
victim-survivor protected from further abuse? 202
Kayliegh Richardson and Amanda Newby
PART III FAMILY COURTS
14 Domestic abuse, parental alienation and Family Court proceedings 224
Adrienne Barnett
15 Innovative approaches to addressing domestic abuse in family courts 251
Rosemary Hunter
16 Coercive control and the family courts: Comparative perspectives from
Australia and England/Wales 269
Anna Carline, Patricia Easteal and Lisa Young
17 Self-represented litigants and family violence: A comparison between
England and Wales and Australia 286
Jess Mant
PART IV CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
18 Court proceedings in which victims of domestic abuse are accused of offending 305
Katy Swaine Williams
19 Inaccessible to women – the general defences of duress and self defence 325
Susan Edwards
20 Preparing a public perceptions study on the use of violent resistance as
self-defence in domestic abuse cases 346
Vanessa Bettinson, Thomas Crofts and Nicola Wake
21 Grooming, ‘rough sex’ and coercive control in the criminal law:
‘Culturally mandated’ sex and violence against women 366
Julia Tolmie, Paulette Benton-Greig and Nicola Gavey
22 Re-framing prosecutorial perceptions of ‘justice’: Towards the goal of
‘thrivership’ 384
Antonia Porter
23 Prosecuting and sentencing domestic abuse in Scotland 401
Rachel McPherson
24 The law of evidence and the victim of domestic abuse 418
Tony Ward and Natalie Wortley