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‘It’s a work in progress’: men’s accounts of gender and change in their use of coercive control

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dc.contributor.author Downes, Julia
dc.contributor.author Kelly, Liz
dc.contributor.author Westmarland, Nicole
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-31T23:22:39Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-31T23:22:39Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.citation : Downes, J., Kelly, L. and Westmarland, N. (2019) ‘It’s a work in progress’: men’s accounts of gender and change in their use of coercive control, Journal of Gender-Based Violence, vol 3, no 3, 267–282, DOI: 10.1332/239868019X15627570242850 sm
dc.identifier.issn • Online ISSN 2398-6816
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/3635
dc.description 16 p. ; PDF sm
dc.description.abstract Over the past ten years the theoretical framework of ‘coercive control’ has been increasingly applied, critiqued and now underpins a criminal offence. While many argue that it more accurately reflects experiences of victimisation, there has been little exploration of coercive control through the accounts of perpetrators. Through two phased interviews with 64 men attending UK Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programmes, we examine how and why men use coercive tactics and how unpicking gender norms enabled some men to recognise and reduce their use of coercive control. We argue that coercive control is more dynamic, contestable and open to change than previous research has suggested. Some men did manage to take steps away from investing in traditional masculine norms and reduce their use of coercive tactics. However, this was an uneven and contradictory process which took time ‐ involving painful realisations of loss and harm alongside a discovery of the benefits associated with letting go of restrictive gender norms. Understanding how and why men invest in or dismantle gender norms that underpin coercive control has important implications for theory and for practice, particularly the content and focus of work with domestic violence perpetrators. sm
dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council under Grant number ES/HO38086/1 and the Northern Rock Foundation under grant reference 20080739. sm
dc.language.iso en sm
dc.publisher Centre for Gender and Violence Research 2019 University of Bristol sm
dc.relation.ispartofseries Journal of Gender-Based Violence • vol 3 • no 3 • 267–282 •;
dc.subject domestic violence sm
dc.subject perpetrator programmes sm
dc.subject coercive control sm
dc.subject space for action sm
dc.subject gender sm
dc.title ‘It’s a work in progress’: men’s accounts of gender and change in their use of coercive control sm
dc.type Article sm


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