Generic personal safety applications

Empowering victims of domestic violence and abuse? A practitioner lens

Bibliographic Data

ID15749090
AuthorsDi Turgoose (0000-0002-7222-4631, De Montfort University, corresponding author), Ruth E Mckie (0000-0002-9707-8749, De Montfort University)
Year2021
Volume5
Issue3
Pages451-466
Publication date2021-07-22
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Gender-Based Violence (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2398-6808 • E-ISSN: 2398-6816
PublisherPolicy Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/239868021x16254814390107
OpenAlexW3184036605
LanguageEN
Citations received3

Bespoke and generic domestic violence and abuse (DVA) personal safety applications (PSAs) have become a popular choice for strategic crime prevention projects by those in the criminal justice sector to achieve justice through digital means as part of the wider digital justice project. These PSAs have been heralded as tools for the protection, empowerment and resilience building of victims in DVA, despite limited independent evaluations. This article explores the use of a generic PSA, which the police have adopted for rollout to victims of DVA in one region of the United Kingdom. We undertook a thematic analysis of data taken from a roundtable and three follow up focus groups with practitioners from the police, criminal justice, DVA specialist sector and victim services, alongside the PSA development team. We found both some support for using this PSA and serious concerns regarding its use in DVA situations

Bespoke · Criminal justice · Criminology · Domestic violence · Economic Justice · Empowerment · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Resilience (materials science · Safeguarding · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Thematic analysis · Elder Abuse and Neglect · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment

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