Calling 911

Intimate Partner Violence and Responsible Citizenship in a Neoliberal Era

Bibliographic Data

ID3978115
AuthorsDana Cuomo (0000-0002-1592-149X, Western Kentucky University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume20
Issue7
Pages879-898
Publication date2019-09-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2017.1392590
OpenAlexW2767127534
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited63

For most of United States' history, the state did not intervene in violence perpetrated within the home or intimate relationships. Women experiencing intimate partner violence had little recourse from state institutions for security or legal justice. This article's inquiry centers on two policing practices – preferred arrest and evidence-based prosecution – that emerged in the 1980s to redress the state's long history of ignoring intimate partner violence. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines how these two policing practices affect the experience of citizenship for intimate partner violence survivors by showing how the state creates a distinction between 'cooperative' victims who support the arrest and incarceration of their abusers and 'uncooperative' who do not. To develop this argument, I conceptualize the policing and prosecution response to intimate partner violence as a social contract of rights and responsibilities that mediates the relationship between the state and women who experience intimate partner violence. By illustrating how the state discursively constructs 'uncooperative' victims as irrational, this article utilizes a feminist geographic analytic to examine the everyday discursive and material technologies that the state employs to reregulate responsible citizenship in a neoliberal era

Argument (complex analysis · Citizenship · Criminology · Domestic violence · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Redress · Sociology · State (computer science · Suicide prevention · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Medicine

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