Carolina Överlien
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 214561 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Carolina Överlien |
| NOMBRES | Carolina |
| APELLIDO | Överlien |
| FIRMA | ÖVERLIEN C |
| AFILIACIONES | Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6856-3422 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 143 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Making excuses and making sense
Across institutional settings, people who talk about having committed sexual violence often do so in ways that may neutralize their personal culpability for it. These so-called neutralizations may be part of a pro-social forward-looking narrative, but might also obscure information and strengthen attitudes that enable further violence. In this article, we examine how one such neutralization –excuses – is managed turn-by-turn, in research intervie…
A Matter of Miscommunication
Research shows a high prevalence of sexual violations among young people despite widespread agreement on the importance of consent. To understand their perspectives, we conducted focus-group interviews with 63 young Norwegians (aged 16–20) discussing a film about a problematic sexual encounter. Despite the participants’ diverse backgrounds (in terms of gender, ethnicity, geographical location and social class), they mostly described the problem t…
The Sexual Safe Space
Following an increased focus on sexual consent as the juridical and political solution to the problem of sexual violence, this study explores young people’s co-constructions of, and discursive work on, boundaries between consensual and non-consensual sex in romantic relationships. Forty-three young people (15–19 years) in Sweden participated in nine focus groups, and we used a vignette to stimulate discussions. We analysed our material through th…
Fifteen Years of Children in Domestic Violence Shelters – A Journey of Progression and Lost Opportunities
Purpose The purpose of this article is to shed light on how the situation of children in domestic violence shelters in Norway has progressed over the last 15 years. We ask; how has the situation for children changed from 2008 until today? How do children themselves understand the situation? Can children be understood as service users today, as defined in the 2010 Norwegian Domestic Violence Shelter Act? How do shelters currently use the “window o…
Understanding the Impact of Sexual Youth Intimate Partner Violence
This study focuses on sexual youth intimate partner violence (YIPV), what it is like to be young and subjected to such violence and how this experience affects a young person. Drawing upon 27 interviews with victims (ages 17–24) of sexual YIPV, we ask: How does psychological aspects influence how sexual YIPV and control were experienced? How are young victims affected by the violence? From a social perspective, how can we understand the consequen…
Identifying Sexual Abuse in Same-Sex Relationships
Purpose Youth intimate partner violence (YIPV) is an under-researched topic within the field of domestic violence. This is particularly true of same-sex YIPV. In this article, the words of one young man, Philip, are analyzed to explore how he narrates his process of defining his sexual experiences as abuse and, consequently, himself as a possible victim of IPV. Methods The qualitative in-depth interview with Philip was conducted as part of a larg…
School as a Context for Youth Intimate Partner Violence
Police Officers Do Not Need More Training; But Different Training. Policing Domestic Violence and Abuse Involving Children
Although the police have been identified as a key service provider when responding to domestic violence and abuse (DVA), very few studies have investigated their response in relation to children. This review aims to examine children’s experiences of police response in the context of DVA and to explore how the police understand and respond to children living with DVA. A rapid review of the empirical literature on the police response to DVA involvi…
Violence, role reversals, and turning points
This article focuses on how one staff member at a therapeutic residential institution negotiates his work identity, exploring how he narrates a violent incident, the formation of work identity, and how the adolescent figures within these processes. Mishler argues that when speaking, we perform identity. As social actors, we select and organise language, telling stories that fit the audience, our intentions, and the occasion. The article is framed…
Factors associated with the perpetration of interpersonal violence and abuse in young people’s intimate relationships
This paper examines individual, peer and societal factors associated with young people's instigation of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, including abuse and control through new technologies, in their intimate relationships. The mixed-method research included a survey of 4564 young people aged 14-17 across five European countries. Young people's advisory groups were convened in each country to work alongside the research teams. Across the Eur…
Young People’s Experiences of Violence and Abuse in Same-sex Relationships
Studies on youth intimate partner violence (IPV) issues have been increasingly published during the last few years. However, research on IPV in same-sex relationships among youths is limited. The aim of this article is to expand this knowledge base by exploring the voices of four youth exposed to IPV in same-sex relationships, investigating the similarities to violence in heterosexual relationships and shedding light on the complicating factor of…
Incapacitated sexual assault among youths
The issue of incapacitated sexual assault (ISA) among youths has received increased attention among researchers. Still our understanding of the phenomenon is so far limited. Most research to date departs from an underlying ‘perpetrator tactics’ framework in which ISA is understood as acts of deliberate exploitation of vulnerable victims. Our analysis suggests that this framework represents an overly narrow understanding of how ISA happens among y…
Responses to youth intimate partner violence
Taking its starting point in a mixed methods study on Dating Violence/Youth Intimate Partner Violence (youth IPV), this article emphasizes the social sphere of youth IPV and contributes to a focus shift from consequences and risks to responses, resilience, and resistance. It asks how IPV-exposed youth describe their responses and those of their social networks to violence, and how these responses might be interconnected with resilience. By explor…
Young Women’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence – Narratives of Control, Terror, and Resistance
European Research on Children, Adolescents and Domestic Violence
Pornography, Sexual Coercion and Abuse and Sexting in Young People’s Intimate Relationships
New technology has made pornography increasingly accessible to young people, and a growing evidence base has identified a relationship between viewing pornography and violent or abusive behavior in young men. This article reports findings from a large survey of 4,564 young people aged 14 to 17 in five European countries which illuminate the relationship between regular viewing of online pornography, sexual coercion and abuse and the sending and r…
Interpersonal violence and abuse in young people’s relationships in five European countries
Qualitative interviews with 91 young people aged 13–18 in Bulgaria, Cyprus, England, Italy and Norway explored their experiences of intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA). Some young women experienced extensive offline sexual pressure and young women were substantially more negatively affected by IPVA than young men. The data revealed that online space has created new mechanisms of control and surveillance that can intensify the impact of off…
The police patrols and children experiencing domestic violence
Using data from a study on police officers’ encounters with domestic violence victims and a study on children experiencing domestic violence, this article examines how officers decide whether and how to communicate with children in emergency situations, and how children experience these encounters. Officers’ views on such communication diverge; usually, communication is motivated by the need to determine next actions. Children recall little commu…
Do you want to do some arm wrestling?’
The aim of this study is, by analysing children's and young people's discourses, to investigate their strategies in response to domestic violence episodes, in relation to their age. The empirical data come from individual interviews with children and young people (ages 8–20 years) who had experienced domestic violence and lived at refuges for abused women. The thematic analysis shows that the children describe a wide range of strategies before, d…
If you look, you have to leave’
The aim of this article is to investigate the competence of young children staying with their mothers in refuges for abused women as participants in qualitative interviews. Discourse of the verbal and non-verbal actions of seven young children (4–7 years old) was analysed using a theory originally developed to describe infant–mother interaction as a model. The analysis shows that the young children were able not only to communicate important aspe…
The Children of Patriarchal Terrorism
He didn't mean to hit mom, I think’
This paper analyses the narratives of adolescents who have experienced domestic violence. It focuses on what we can learn about being an adolescent who experiences domestic violence, using a narrative approach. Attentive to both form and content, the paper sheds light on why the narrative is being told, who the actors in the narratives are, who are positioned in the forefront/background and what the point of the narrative is. The analysis shows t…
Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
This article examines and discusses the research field of children exposed to domestic violence, a field which has greatly expanded during the last 10 years. The author presents an overview of this research, discusses its implications, and describes future challenges and contemporary knowledge gaps. • Findings: The author argues that the field is dominated by studies that a) are quantitative, b) use the mothers as the informant and c) are represe…
Abused women with children or children of abused women? A study of conflicting perspectives at women's refuges in Norway
Women's refuges were established in Norway in the late 1970s by and for women. From the very outset, abused women have also brought their children to the refuges. With an increasing political, practical and research focus on the situation of children exposed to violence, the Norwegian refuge movement today is expected to apply both the woman's and the child's perspective in their work. By analysing the discourse of children staying at women's ref…
Trauma Victim
The aim of this study is to explore the reasons why it may be difficult to answer questions regarding violence, sexual abuse, and other potentially traumatic events (PTEs). Qualitative and quantitative methods are used with a nonrepresentative community sample of 628 women who respond to a Web survey. Altogether, 65% do not find it difficult to answer any PTE questions. Difficulties in answering occur more frequently with violence and sexual abus…
Children's Actions when Experiencing Domestic Violence
The aim of this article is, by analysing children's discourses, to investigate their actions or absence of actions during a domestic violence episode. The empirical data are recorded group therapy sessions and individual interviews with children who have grown up experiencing their fathers' violence against their mothers. The analysis shows that the children's stories contain two aspects of actions: one related to the actions during the ongoing e…
The Focus Group Interview as an In‐depth Method? Young Women Talking About Sexuality
This article discusses whether the focus group method can be employed with troubled groups and for the discussion of high‐involvement topics. It analyses focus groups' discourse of high‐involvement topics, such as 'the body', 'relationships', and 'sexuality', conducted with female adolescents aged 15–20 years at a detention home. Contrary to the traditional belief that the focus group method is designed for low‐involvement topics and mainstream g…
Innocent Girls or Active Young Women? Negotiating Sexual Agency at a Detention Home
This article analyzes discourse about sexuality at a detention home for young women aged 13-21 years. Staff members, both male and female, talk about the young women as if they were still children, i.e. as asexual beings, thereby denying them sexual agency. The image of young women as innocent children is, however, contested by the young women themselves, who explicitly claim sexual agency. The article concludes that by not using the situatedness…
Trauma Victim
The aim of this study is to explore the reasons why it may be difficult to answer questions regarding violence, sexual abuse, and other potentially traumatic events (PTEs). Qualitative and quantitative methods are used with a nonrepresentative community sample of 628 women who respond to a Web survey. Altogether, 65% do not find it difficult to answer any PTE questions. Difficulties in answering occur more frequently with violence and sexual abus…
Do you want to do some arm wrestling?’
The aim of this study is, by analysing children's and young people's discourses, to investigate their strategies in response to domestic violence episodes, in relation to their age. The empirical data come from individual interviews with children and young people (ages 8–20 years) who had experienced domestic violence and lived at refuges for abused women. The thematic analysis shows that the children describe a wide range of strategies before, d…
Young Women’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence – Narratives of Control, Terror, and Resistance
The Children of Patriarchal Terrorism
Incapacitated sexual assault among youths
The issue of incapacitated sexual assault (ISA) among youths has received increased attention among researchers. Still our understanding of the phenomenon is so far limited. Most research to date departs from an underlying ‘perpetrator tactics’ framework in which ISA is understood as acts of deliberate exploitation of vulnerable victims. Our analysis suggests that this framework represents an overly narrow understanding of how ISA happens among y…
He didn't mean to hit mom, I think’
This paper analyses the narratives of adolescents who have experienced domestic violence. It focuses on what we can learn about being an adolescent who experiences domestic violence, using a narrative approach. Attentive to both form and content, the paper sheds light on why the narrative is being told, who the actors in the narratives are, who are positioned in the forefront/background and what the point of the narrative is. The analysis shows t…
European Research on Children, Adolescents and Domestic Violence
If you look, you have to leave’
The aim of this article is to investigate the competence of young children staying with their mothers in refuges for abused women as participants in qualitative interviews. Discourse of the verbal and non-verbal actions of seven young children (4–7 years old) was analysed using a theory originally developed to describe infant–mother interaction as a model. The analysis shows that the young children were able not only to communicate important aspe…
Abused women with children or children of abused women? A study of conflicting perspectives at women's refuges in Norway
Women's refuges were established in Norway in the late 1970s by and for women. From the very outset, abused women have also brought their children to the refuges. With an increasing political, practical and research focus on the situation of children exposed to violence, the Norwegian refuge movement today is expected to apply both the woman's and the child's perspective in their work. By analysing the discourse of children staying at women's ref…
Factors associated with the perpetration of interpersonal violence and abuse in young people’s intimate relationships
This paper examines individual, peer and societal factors associated with young people's instigation of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, including abuse and control through new technologies, in their intimate relationships. The mixed-method research included a survey of 4564 young people aged 14-17 across five European countries. Young people's advisory groups were convened in each country to work alongside the research teams. Across the Eur…
Understanding the Impact of Sexual Youth Intimate Partner Violence
This study focuses on sexual youth intimate partner violence (YIPV), what it is like to be young and subjected to such violence and how this experience affects a young person. Drawing upon 27 interviews with victims (ages 17–24) of sexual YIPV, we ask: How does psychological aspects influence how sexual YIPV and control were experienced? How are young victims affected by the violence? From a social perspective, how can we understand the consequen…
II. ‘You Want to Have Done Your Living if You Know What I Mean’
“You want to have done your living if you know what I mean” : Young Incarcerated Swedish women speak about motherhood
Fifteen Years of Children in Domestic Violence Shelters – A Journey of Progression and Lost Opportunities
Purpose The purpose of this article is to shed light on how the situation of children in domestic violence shelters in Norway has progressed over the last 15 years. We ask; how has the situation for children changed from 2008 until today? How do children themselves understand the situation? Can children be understood as service users today, as defined in the 2010 Norwegian Domestic Violence Shelter Act? How do shelters currently use the “window o…
Identifying Sexual Abuse in Same-Sex Relationships
Purpose Youth intimate partner violence (YIPV) is an under-researched topic within the field of domestic violence. This is particularly true of same-sex YIPV. In this article, the words of one young man, Philip, are analyzed to explore how he narrates his process of defining his sexual experiences as abuse and, consequently, himself as a possible victim of IPV. Methods The qualitative in-depth interview with Philip was conducted as part of a larg…
Applying narrative analysis to the process of confirming or disregarding cases of suspected sexual abuse
This article analyses discourse about sexual abuse at a detention home for young women. At the centre of attention is staff members’ struggle with the process of confirming or disregarding cases of alleged sexual abuse. The determining factor for establishing an act as sexual abuse was whether or not the act involved a person who was defined as a victim. A core issue in the process was an evaluation of the credibility of the alleged abused girl a…
Work identity at stake
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Work identity at stake
Preview this article: Work identity at stake: The power of sexual abuse stories in the world of compulsory youth care, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ni.13.1.08ove-1.gif
Innocent Girls or Active Young Women? Negotiating Sexual Agency at a Detention Home
This article analyzes discourse about sexuality at a detention home for young women aged 13-21 years. Staff members, both male and female, talk about the young women as if they were still children, i.e. as asexual beings, thereby denying them sexual agency. The image of young women as innocent children is, however, contested by the young women themselves, who explicitly claim sexual agency. The article concludes that by not using the situatedness…
II. ‘You Want to Have Done Your Living if You Know What I Mean’
“You want to have done your living if you know what I mean” : Young Incarcerated Swedish women speak about motherhood
II. ‘You Want to Have Done Your Living if You Know What I Mean’
Women in prison and secure psychiatric settings : Whose needs, whose dangerousness? II. 'You want to have done your living if you know what I mean
The Focus Group Interview as an In‐depth Method? Young Women Talking About Sexuality
This article discusses whether the focus group method can be employed with troubled groups and for the discussion of high‐involvement topics. It analyses focus groups' discourse of high‐involvement topics, such as 'the body', 'relationships', and 'sexuality', conducted with female adolescents aged 15–20 years at a detention home. Contrary to the traditional belief that the focus group method is designed for low‐involvement topics and mainstream g…
Applying narrative analysis to the process of confirming or disregarding cases of suspected sexual abuse
This article analyses discourse about sexual abuse at a detention home for young women. At the centre of attention is staff members’ struggle with the process of confirming or disregarding cases of alleged sexual abuse. The determining factor for establishing an act as sexual abuse was whether or not the act involved a person who was defined as a victim. A core issue in the process was an evaluation of the credibility of the alleged abused girl a…
Trauma Victim
The aim of this study is to explore the reasons why it may be difficult to answer questions regarding violence, sexual abuse, and other potentially traumatic events (PTEs). Qualitative and quantitative methods are used with a nonrepresentative community sample of 628 women who respond to a Web survey. Altogether, 65% do not find it difficult to answer any PTE questions. Difficulties in answering occur more frequently with violence and sexual abus…
Children's Actions when Experiencing Domestic Violence
The aim of this article is, by analysing children's discourses, to investigate their actions or absence of actions during a domestic violence episode. The empirical data are recorded group therapy sessions and individual interviews with children who have grown up experiencing their fathers' violence against their mothers. The analysis shows that the children's stories contain two aspects of actions: one related to the actions during the ongoing e…
Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
This article examines and discusses the research field of children exposed to domestic violence, a field which has greatly expanded during the last 10 years. The author presents an overview of this research, discusses its implications, and describes future challenges and contemporary knowledge gaps. • Findings: The author argues that the field is dominated by studies that a) are quantitative, b) use the mothers as the informant and c) are represe…
Abused women with children or children of abused women? A study of conflicting perspectives at women's refuges in Norway
Women's refuges were established in Norway in the late 1970s by and for women. From the very outset, abused women have also brought their children to the refuges. With an increasing political, practical and research focus on the situation of children exposed to violence, the Norwegian refuge movement today is expected to apply both the woman's and the child's perspective in their work. By analysing the discourse of children staying at women's ref…
He didn't mean to hit mom, I think’
This paper analyses the narratives of adolescents who have experienced domestic violence. It focuses on what we can learn about being an adolescent who experiences domestic violence, using a narrative approach. Attentive to both form and content, the paper sheds light on why the narrative is being told, who the actors in the narratives are, who are positioned in the forefront/background and what the point of the narrative is. The analysis shows t…
The Children of Patriarchal Terrorism
If you look, you have to leave’
The aim of this article is to investigate the competence of young children staying with their mothers in refuges for abused women as participants in qualitative interviews. Discourse of the verbal and non-verbal actions of seven young children (4–7 years old) was analysed using a theory originally developed to describe infant–mother interaction as a model. The analysis shows that the young children were able not only to communicate important aspe…
The police patrols and children experiencing domestic violence
Using data from a study on police officers’ encounters with domestic violence victims and a study on children experiencing domestic violence, this article examines how officers decide whether and how to communicate with children in emergency situations, and how children experience these encounters. Officers’ views on such communication diverge; usually, communication is motivated by the need to determine next actions. Children recall little commu…
Do you want to do some arm wrestling?’
The aim of this study is, by analysing children's and young people's discourses, to investigate their strategies in response to domestic violence episodes, in relation to their age. The empirical data come from individual interviews with children and young people (ages 8–20 years) who had experienced domestic violence and lived at refuges for abused women. The thematic analysis shows that the children describe a wide range of strategies before, d…
Pornography, Sexual Coercion and Abuse and Sexting in Young People’s Intimate Relationships
New technology has made pornography increasingly accessible to young people, and a growing evidence base has identified a relationship between viewing pornography and violent or abusive behavior in young men. This article reports findings from a large survey of 4,564 young people aged 14 to 17 in five European countries which illuminate the relationship between regular viewing of online pornography, sexual coercion and abuse and the sending and r…
Interpersonal violence and abuse in young people’s relationships in five European countries
Qualitative interviews with 91 young people aged 13–18 in Bulgaria, Cyprus, England, Italy and Norway explored their experiences of intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA). Some young women experienced extensive offline sexual pressure and young women were substantially more negatively affected by IPVA than young men. The data revealed that online space has created new mechanisms of control and surveillance that can intensify the impact of off…
Responses to youth intimate partner violence
Taking its starting point in a mixed methods study on Dating Violence/Youth Intimate Partner Violence (youth IPV), this article emphasizes the social sphere of youth IPV and contributes to a focus shift from consequences and risks to responses, resilience, and resistance. It asks how IPV-exposed youth describe their responses and those of their social networks to violence, and how these responses might be interconnected with resilience. By explor…
Young Women’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence – Narratives of Control, Terror, and Resistance
European Research on Children, Adolescents and Domestic Violence
Young People’s Experiences of Violence and Abuse in Same-sex Relationships
Studies on youth intimate partner violence (IPV) issues have been increasingly published during the last few years. However, research on IPV in same-sex relationships among youths is limited. The aim of this article is to expand this knowledge base by exploring the voices of four youth exposed to IPV in same-sex relationships, investigating the similarities to violence in heterosexual relationships and shedding light on the complicating factor of…
Incapacitated sexual assault among youths
The issue of incapacitated sexual assault (ISA) among youths has received increased attention among researchers. Still our understanding of the phenomenon is so far limited. Most research to date departs from an underlying ‘perpetrator tactics’ framework in which ISA is understood as acts of deliberate exploitation of vulnerable victims. Our analysis suggests that this framework represents an overly narrow understanding of how ISA happens among y…
Violence, role reversals, and turning points
This article focuses on how one staff member at a therapeutic residential institution negotiates his work identity, exploring how he narrates a violent incident, the formation of work identity, and how the adolescent figures within these processes. Mishler argues that when speaking, we perform identity. As social actors, we select and organise language, telling stories that fit the audience, our intentions, and the occasion. The article is framed…
Factors associated with the perpetration of interpersonal violence and abuse in young people’s intimate relationships
This paper examines individual, peer and societal factors associated with young people's instigation of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, including abuse and control through new technologies, in their intimate relationships. The mixed-method research included a survey of 4564 young people aged 14-17 across five European countries. Young people's advisory groups were convened in each country to work alongside the research teams. Across the Eur…
School as a Context for Youth Intimate Partner Violence
Psychology (29 obras) · Social Psychology (23 obras) · Medicine (21 obras) · Poison control (21 obras) · Sociology (20 obras) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (19 obras) · Suicide prevention (19 obras) · Developmental psychology (17 obras) · Social Psychology (17 obras) · Criminology (16 obras)