A Critical Examination of the Influences of Intimate Partner Violence, Help-Seeking, and Social Identity on Women’s Experiences Seeking and Obtaining Civil Protection Orders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20394129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Meredith E Bagwell-Gray (School of Social Welfare, The University of Kansas), Meredith Bagwell-Gray (0000-0002-5485-5448, University of Kansas, corresponding author), Jill T Messing (0000-0002-9941-3512, Arizona State University), Alesha Durfee (0000-0001-8518-2453, Gender Studies), Alesha A Durfee (Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Saint Louis University), Kathryn J Spearman (0000-0002-3192-7293, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 173-190 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Criminal Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0897-4454 • E-ISSN: 1541-0323 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08974454.2023.2167060 |
| OpenAlex | W4319788275 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 59 |
This research describes women’s engagement with the civil legal system as a safety strategy when experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV). Using a critical lens, it explores how violence victimization, help-seeking, and social identities influence victim-survivors’ decisions to seek civil protection orders (POs) and whether they obtain them. Using cross-sectional survey methods, we recruited women experiencing IPV in relationships with men (N = 660) from ten emergency shelters in a metropolitan region of the southwestern United States. Violence and help-seeking predicted whether victim-survivors sought POs, whereas social identities predicted whether they received them, revealing the influence of social identities on civil justice outcomes
Criminology · Domestic violence · Help-seeking · Medical emergency · Mental health · Poison control · Political science · Psychiatry · Social group · Social identity theory · Suicide prevention · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology
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When “Enough is Enough”
Correlates of Medical and Legal Help Seeking among Women Reporting Intimate Partner Violence
Structural racism and health inequities in the USA
Health consequences of intimate partner violence
Arrested Justice
Are Abused Women’s Protective Actions Associated With Reduced Threats, Stalking, and Violence Perpetrated by Their Male Intimate Partners
Arrested justice
Multiple Imputation for Nonresponse in Surveys
Coercive Control
Protective Orders
The Effectiveness of Protection Orders in Reducing Recidivism in Domestic Violence
Intimate Partner Violence, Police Engagement, and Perceived Helpfulness of the Legal System
Victim Narratives, Legal Representation, and Domestic Violence Civil Protection Orders
You Do Not Think of Me as a Human Being”
Prevalence and Consequences of Male-to-female and Female-to-male Intimate Partner Violence as Measured by the National Violence Against Women Survey
Restraining Orders in California
Protective Orders in Rural and Urban Areas
The Use of Structural Intersectionality as a Method to Analyze How the Domestic Violence Civil Protective Order Process Replicates Inequality
Outcomes of Custody and Visitation Petitions When Fathers Are Restrained by Protection Orders
Abuse Characteristics and Coping Resources as Predictors of Problem-Focused Coping Strategies Among Battered Women
Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
Responding to Intimate Partner Violence
Characteristics Related to Protection Order Use Among Victims of Intimate Partner Violence
Reframing the Narrative of the Battered Women’s Movement
A Summary of Personal Protection Order Statutes in the United States
Protective Orders and Domestic Violence
Development of the severity of violence against women scales
An Ecological Study of Nonresidential Services for Battered Women Within a Comprehensive Community Protocol for Domestic Violence
The Long Shadow of Family Separation
The Promise Initiative
Protection Orders and Intimate Partner Violence
Protective order legislation
Mapping the Margins
| Citations per year | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |