Ruth E Fleury‐steiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 121005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth E Fleury‐steiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth E |
| FAMILY NAME | Fleury‐steiner |
| SIGNATURE | STEINER R E F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4493-5951 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Perspectives on domestic violence in rural U.S. communities during the Covid-19 pandemic
Introduction: Services for domestic violence (DV) victims have long been limited in rural areas due to geographic isolation, lack of transportation, and limited access to legal services, housing, and health services. While virtual services developed during COVID-19 expanded access for some, this shift potentially worsened rural disparities related to Internet access, housing and transportation, and resource shortages. Theory: Evidence from resear…
Coordinated Community Response Frameworks During Covid-19
A coordinated community response (CCR) is a whole system response for victims of domestic violence. Interviews were conducted with leaders of U.S. state and territorial domestic violence coalitions to assess CCR resilience to COVID-19. Interviews were completed with 25/56 coalitions. Key challenges to maintaining CCRs included: (1) maintaining community infrastructures for service coordination; (2) continuity of law enforcement/legal systems; (3)…
Intimate Partner Abuse and Violence Victim-Survivors’ Experiences With and Perceptions of Navigating Multiple Legal Cases
Intimate partner abuse and violence victim-survivors may be involved in multiple legal cases across civil and criminal legal systems as they seek safety. Most research explores women’s experiences in only individual cases or systems. Drawing on 172 in-depth quantitative surveys with female victim-survivors seeking civil protection orders, the current study explores how prior case experiences relate to current case perceptions. Findings suggest in…
He Just Wants to Get Under My Skin”
The U.S. legal system reproduces asymmetric power dynamics within abusive relationships. Existing research fails to delineate how civil protection orders increase mother-survivors' vulnerability to continued abuse. Interviews with mother-survivors yielded three themes regarding the ways abusers used children and legal proceedings to maintain power over women: (1) litigation abuse, (2) continued coercive control/harassment, and (3) deliberate sabo…
Legal Systems and Domestic Violence
Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic and associated public health control measures resulted in both higher rates of intimate partner abuse and violence (IPA/V) and more severe victimization. Domestic violence advocacy programs struggled to maintain organizational capacity to provide survivor-centered services in the face of both increased demand and rapid changes necessary to mitigate disease spread. The current study explores ways that legal advocates …
Furthering the Dialogue
Disruption, adaptation, and maintenance of domestic violence services during the Covid-19 pandemic
COVID-19 disrupted many aspects of domestic violence services including sheltering, in-person advocacy, and access to mental health, visitation, and legal services.Increased demand for services occurred concurrent with the highest levels of pandemic disruptions.Adaptations to many systems and services were made to address survivor's changing needs.To understand how various aspects of service provision were disrupted during the pandemic, we survey…
Characterizing the impacts of public health control measures on domestic violence services
The use of non-pharmaceutical control measures early in the COVID-19 pandemic had negative impacts on the health and safety of some vulnerable groups, including domestic violence victims. Organizations that provide services and advocacy to victims faced many unique challenges in carrying out their missions while adhering to required public health control measures. Policy and preparedness plan changes are needed to prevent unintended consequences …
Lessons Learned From the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States by Domestic Violence Coalition Leaders
This U.S. study explores lessons learned about domestic violence service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic identified by state, territory, and tribal coalition leadership to advance preparedness and guide structural improvements for future disasters. Semi-structured interviews with 25 Coalition leaders identified public health control measures and victim-centered strategies used to mitigate the pandemic's impacts on services and advocacy. Thr…
When Calling the Police Exacerbates Harm
Online Guidance for Domestic Violence Survivors and Service Providers
To assess COVID-19 information and services available to domestic violence service providers, survivors, and racially and culturally specific communities in the U.S., a content analysis of 80 national and state/territorial coalition websites was performed in June 2020. COVID-19 information was available on 84% of websites. National organizations provided more information for survivors related to safety and mental health and for racially and cultu…
Legal Consciousness and Intimate Partner Violence Survivors’ Perceptions of Protection Order Violations
Reproductive Coercion and Perceptions of Future Violence
Reproductive coercion is an understudied form of intimate partner abuse related to physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. Prior research suggests that women accurately predict whether their abuser will continue the abuse. Thus, understanding factors related to these perceptions is necessary to enhance safety. Using a diverse sample of women in the United States seeking protection orders, the current study examines reproductive coercion as a p…
“No Contact, Except . . .”
Since the 1994 Violence Against Women Act was signed into law, women seeking safety from intimate partner violence have increasingly sought civil protection orders. Each year, approximately 1 million civil protection orders are issued in the United States. Research suggests that protection orders can help to reduce intimate partner abuse. Moreover, protection orders can offer a variety of reliefs to survivors, including stay away orders, division…
Calling the Shots
Access to firearms increases the risk of a batterer killing his partner. Moreover, firearms may be more common in homes where intimate partner abuse has occurred. The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 banned possession of firearms by individuals subject to civil protection orders. Yet little research has focused on how this ban is communicated to survivors and batterers. Drawing on systematic observations of protection order hearings, the curren…
More Than a Piece of Paper? Protection Orders as a Resource for Battered Women
Nearly 2 million women are assaulted by a partner or ex‐partner each year in the United States (). Intimate partner violence is a complex social problem rooted in structural gender inequality, but that affects individual women in different ways (e.g. ; ). Battered women actively seek help in ending the violence from both formal and informal sources (e.g. ; ; ). As part of this process, many battered women will apply for a protection order against…
The Importance of Resources and Information in the Lives of Battered Mothers
An increasing body of research has documented the overlap between intimate partner violence and child abuse. To date, very little research has explored mothers' perspectives on how child protection services (CPS) actually investigates and intervenes in families where intimate partner violence (IPV) as well as child abuse or neglect have occurred. The current research explores the complex role of information and resources in child protection inves…
The Internet as a Tool for Black Feminist Activism
This article explores how the Internet is a tool for Black women to challenge violence against women of color. It highlights online protest in response to the actions of civil rights organizations’ narrow focus on the treatment of Black male offenders while overlooking the civil rights of Black female victims. Specifically, the article examines a protest focusing on the reactions of racial justice leaders to a brutal gang rape in a Palm Beach hou…
The Levels and Roles of Social and Institutional Support Reported by Survivors of Intimate Partner Abuse
This article explores the roles of social (informal) and institutional (formal) support in the lives of 158 women whose intimate partner abuse (IPA) cases reached the courts in three jurisdictions in the United States.Women were asked who knew about the IPA and their levels of supportiveness. Data analysis includes comparisons across the women in terms of social support and institutional support, and how these were related to the women’s demograp…
Governing through crime as commonsense racism
This article explores momentous changes to Delaware's death penalty statute in 1991, reforms that made it one of the USA's premier killing states. Reflecting on media coverage of a high profile crime and the legislative debates that led to the law change sheds light on how static conceptions of spaces (i.e. `the dangerous city') and persons (i.e. `non-white invaders from Philadelphia') reveal lawmakers' commonsense racism as inextricably bound to…
Research, Dissemination, and Activism
Contextual factors impacting battered women's intentions to reuse the criminal legal system
While a small number of past studies have examined either situational, relational, or systems-level factors that influence battered women's use of either the police, prosecutorial, or court systems, no study to date has examined how these factors each influence women's intentions to reuse these systems. To address this gap, in-person interviews were conducted with 178 women whose assailants had been charged with a domestic violence–related crime …
Special Reviewers
Missing Voices
Many survivors of intimate partner violence turn to the criminal legal system for help in ending the violence against them. An increasing amount of research has focused on how the system ought to handle these cases. But, with few exceptions, the existing research has not examined survivors'satisfaction with the criminal legal system. The current research explored intimate partner violence survivors' patterns of satisfaction with the criminal lega…
When Ending the Relationship Does Not End the Violence
Much of the existing research on intimate male violence against women has focused on the prevalence of and response to abuse that occurs within an ongoing intimate relationship. Little attention has been paid to the abuse that occurs after women have ended abusive relationships. In the current study, women leaving a shelter for women with abusive partners were interviewed across 2 years. More than one third of the women were assaulted by a former…
When Ending the Relationship Does Not End the Violence
Much of the existing research on intimate male violence against women has focused on the prevalence of and response to abuse that occurs within an ongoing intimate relationship. Little attention has been paid to the abuse that occurs after women have ended abusive relationships. In the current study, women leaving a shelter for women with abusive partners were interviewed across 2 years. More than one third of the women were assaulted by a former…
Missing Voices
Many survivors of intimate partner violence turn to the criminal legal system for help in ending the violence against them. An increasing amount of research has focused on how the system ought to handle these cases. But, with few exceptions, the existing research has not examined survivors'satisfaction with the criminal legal system. The current research explored intimate partner violence survivors' patterns of satisfaction with the criminal lega…
Feminism
Governing through crime as commonsense racism
This article explores momentous changes to Delaware's death penalty statute in 1991, reforms that made it one of the USA's premier killing states. Reflecting on media coverage of a high profile crime and the legislative debates that led to the law change sheds light on how static conceptions of spaces (i.e. `the dangerous city') and persons (i.e. `non-white invaders from Philadelphia') reveal lawmakers' commonsense racism as inextricably bound to…
Contextual factors impacting battered women's intentions to reuse the criminal legal system
While a small number of past studies have examined either situational, relational, or systems-level factors that influence battered women's use of either the police, prosecutorial, or court systems, no study to date has examined how these factors each influence women's intentions to reuse these systems. To address this gap, in-person interviews were conducted with 178 women whose assailants had been charged with a domestic violence–related crime …
Calling the Shots
Access to firearms increases the risk of a batterer killing his partner. Moreover, firearms may be more common in homes where intimate partner abuse has occurred. The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 banned possession of firearms by individuals subject to civil protection orders. Yet little research has focused on how this ban is communicated to survivors and batterers. Drawing on systematic observations of protection order hearings, the curren…
Legal Consciousness and Intimate Partner Violence Survivors’ Perceptions of Protection Order Violations
The Internet as a Tool for Black Feminist Activism
This article explores how the Internet is a tool for Black women to challenge violence against women of color. It highlights online protest in response to the actions of civil rights organizations’ narrow focus on the treatment of Black male offenders while overlooking the civil rights of Black female victims. Specifically, the article examines a protest focusing on the reactions of racial justice leaders to a brutal gang rape in a Palm Beach hou…
The Levels and Roles of Social and Institutional Support Reported by Survivors of Intimate Partner Abuse
This article explores the roles of social (informal) and institutional (formal) support in the lives of 158 women whose intimate partner abuse (IPA) cases reached the courts in three jurisdictions in the United States.Women were asked who knew about the IPA and their levels of supportiveness. Data analysis includes comparisons across the women in terms of social support and institutional support, and how these were related to the women’s demograp…
The numbers game
He Just Wants to Get Under My Skin”
The U.S. legal system reproduces asymmetric power dynamics within abusive relationships. Existing research fails to delineate how civil protection orders increase mother-survivors' vulnerability to continued abuse. Interviews with mother-survivors yielded three themes regarding the ways abusers used children and legal proceedings to maintain power over women: (1) litigation abuse, (2) continued coercive control/harassment, and (3) deliberate sabo…
When Calling the Police Exacerbates Harm
Reproductive Coercion and Perceptions of Future Violence
Reproductive coercion is an understudied form of intimate partner abuse related to physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. Prior research suggests that women accurately predict whether their abuser will continue the abuse. Thus, understanding factors related to these perceptions is necessary to enhance safety. Using a diverse sample of women in the United States seeking protection orders, the current study examines reproductive coercion as a p…
More Than a Piece of Paper? Protection Orders as a Resource for Battered Women
Nearly 2 million women are assaulted by a partner or ex‐partner each year in the United States (). Intimate partner violence is a complex social problem rooted in structural gender inequality, but that affects individual women in different ways (e.g. ; ). Battered women actively seek help in ending the violence from both formal and informal sources (e.g. ; ; ). As part of this process, many battered women will apply for a protection order against…
The numbers game
Feminism
What happened depends on whom you ask
When Ending the Relationship Does Not End the Violence
Much of the existing research on intimate male violence against women has focused on the prevalence of and response to abuse that occurs within an ongoing intimate relationship. Little attention has been paid to the abuse that occurs after women have ended abusive relationships. In the current study, women leaving a shelter for women with abusive partners were interviewed across 2 years. More than one third of the women were assaulted by a former…
Missing Voices
Many survivors of intimate partner violence turn to the criminal legal system for help in ending the violence against them. An increasing amount of research has focused on how the system ought to handle these cases. But, with few exceptions, the existing research has not examined survivors'satisfaction with the criminal legal system. The current research explored intimate partner violence survivors' patterns of satisfaction with the criminal lega…
Special Reviewers
Contextual factors impacting battered women's intentions to reuse the criminal legal system
While a small number of past studies have examined either situational, relational, or systems-level factors that influence battered women's use of either the police, prosecutorial, or court systems, no study to date has examined how these factors each influence women's intentions to reuse these systems. To address this gap, in-person interviews were conducted with 178 women whose assailants had been charged with a domestic violence–related crime …
Research, Dissemination, and Activism
The Levels and Roles of Social and Institutional Support Reported by Survivors of Intimate Partner Abuse
This article explores the roles of social (informal) and institutional (formal) support in the lives of 158 women whose intimate partner abuse (IPA) cases reached the courts in three jurisdictions in the United States.Women were asked who knew about the IPA and their levels of supportiveness. Data analysis includes comparisons across the women in terms of social support and institutional support, and how these were related to the women’s demograp…
Governing through crime as commonsense racism
This article explores momentous changes to Delaware's death penalty statute in 1991, reforms that made it one of the USA's premier killing states. Reflecting on media coverage of a high profile crime and the legislative debates that led to the law change sheds light on how static conceptions of spaces (i.e. `the dangerous city') and persons (i.e. `non-white invaders from Philadelphia') reveal lawmakers' commonsense racism as inextricably bound to…
The Internet as a Tool for Black Feminist Activism
This article explores how the Internet is a tool for Black women to challenge violence against women of color. It highlights online protest in response to the actions of civil rights organizations’ narrow focus on the treatment of Black male offenders while overlooking the civil rights of Black female victims. Specifically, the article examines a protest focusing on the reactions of racial justice leaders to a brutal gang rape in a Palm Beach hou…
More Than a Piece of Paper? Protection Orders as a Resource for Battered Women
Nearly 2 million women are assaulted by a partner or ex‐partner each year in the United States (). Intimate partner violence is a complex social problem rooted in structural gender inequality, but that affects individual women in different ways (e.g. ; ). Battered women actively seek help in ending the violence from both formal and informal sources (e.g. ; ; ). As part of this process, many battered women will apply for a protection order against…
The Importance of Resources and Information in the Lives of Battered Mothers
An increasing body of research has documented the overlap between intimate partner violence and child abuse. To date, very little research has explored mothers' perspectives on how child protection services (CPS) actually investigates and intervenes in families where intimate partner violence (IPV) as well as child abuse or neglect have occurred. The current research explores the complex role of information and resources in child protection inves…
“No Contact, Except . . .”
Since the 1994 Violence Against Women Act was signed into law, women seeking safety from intimate partner violence have increasingly sought civil protection orders. Each year, approximately 1 million civil protection orders are issued in the United States. Research suggests that protection orders can help to reduce intimate partner abuse. Moreover, protection orders can offer a variety of reliefs to survivors, including stay away orders, division…
Calling the Shots
Access to firearms increases the risk of a batterer killing his partner. Moreover, firearms may be more common in homes where intimate partner abuse has occurred. The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 banned possession of firearms by individuals subject to civil protection orders. Yet little research has focused on how this ban is communicated to survivors and batterers. Drawing on systematic observations of protection order hearings, the curren…
Reproductive Coercion and Perceptions of Future Violence
Reproductive coercion is an understudied form of intimate partner abuse related to physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. Prior research suggests that women accurately predict whether their abuser will continue the abuse. Thus, understanding factors related to these perceptions is necessary to enhance safety. Using a diverse sample of women in the United States seeking protection orders, the current study examines reproductive coercion as a p…
Legal Consciousness and Intimate Partner Violence Survivors’ Perceptions of Protection Order Violations
Online Guidance for Domestic Violence Survivors and Service Providers
To assess COVID-19 information and services available to domestic violence service providers, survivors, and racially and culturally specific communities in the U.S., a content analysis of 80 national and state/territorial coalition websites was performed in June 2020. COVID-19 information was available on 84% of websites. National organizations provided more information for survivors related to safety and mental health and for racially and cultu…
Characterizing the impacts of public health control measures on domestic violence services
The use of non-pharmaceutical control measures early in the COVID-19 pandemic had negative impacts on the health and safety of some vulnerable groups, including domestic violence victims. Organizations that provide services and advocacy to victims faced many unique challenges in carrying out their missions while adhering to required public health control measures. Policy and preparedness plan changes are needed to prevent unintended consequences …
Lessons Learned From the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States by Domestic Violence Coalition Leaders
This U.S. study explores lessons learned about domestic violence service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic identified by state, territory, and tribal coalition leadership to advance preparedness and guide structural improvements for future disasters. Semi-structured interviews with 25 Coalition leaders identified public health control measures and victim-centered strategies used to mitigate the pandemic's impacts on services and advocacy. Thr…
When Calling the Police Exacerbates Harm
Disruption, adaptation, and maintenance of domestic violence services during the Covid-19 pandemic
COVID-19 disrupted many aspects of domestic violence services including sheltering, in-person advocacy, and access to mental health, visitation, and legal services.Increased demand for services occurred concurrent with the highest levels of pandemic disruptions.Adaptations to many systems and services were made to address survivor's changing needs.To understand how various aspects of service provision were disrupted during the pandemic, we survey…
Intimate Partner Abuse and Violence Victim-Survivors’ Experiences With and Perceptions of Navigating Multiple Legal Cases
Intimate partner abuse and violence victim-survivors may be involved in multiple legal cases across civil and criminal legal systems as they seek safety. Most research explores women’s experiences in only individual cases or systems. Drawing on 172 in-depth quantitative surveys with female victim-survivors seeking civil protection orders, the current study explores how prior case experiences relate to current case perceptions. Findings suggest in…
He Just Wants to Get Under My Skin”
The U.S. legal system reproduces asymmetric power dynamics within abusive relationships. Existing research fails to delineate how civil protection orders increase mother-survivors' vulnerability to continued abuse. Interviews with mother-survivors yielded three themes regarding the ways abusers used children and legal proceedings to maintain power over women: (1) litigation abuse, (2) continued coercive control/harassment, and (3) deliberate sabo…
Legal Systems and Domestic Violence
Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic and associated public health control measures resulted in both higher rates of intimate partner abuse and violence (IPA/V) and more severe victimization. Domestic violence advocacy programs struggled to maintain organizational capacity to provide survivor-centered services in the face of both increased demand and rapid changes necessary to mitigate disease spread. The current study explores ways that legal advocates …
Poison control (22 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (20 works) · Medicine (20 works) · Suicide prevention (17 works) · Medical emergency (16 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Domestic violence (15 works) · Criminology (14 works) · Human Factors and Ergonomics (14 works) · Human Factors and Ergonomics (14 works)