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Human trafficking has moved from relative obscurity to a major area of research, policy and teach... more Human trafficking has moved from relative obscurity to a major area of research, policy and teaching over the past ten years. Research has sprung from criminology, public policy, women’s and gender studies, sociology, anthropology, and law, but has been somewhat hindered by the failure of scholars to engage beyond their own disciplines and favoured methodologies. Recent research has begun to improve efforts to understand the causes of the problem, the experiences of victims, policy efforts, and their consequences in specific cultural and historical contexts.
Global Human Trafficking: Critical issues and contexts foregrounds recent empirical work on human trafficking from an interdisciplinary, critical perspective. The collection includes classroom-friendly features, such as introductory chapters that provide essential background for understanding the trafficking literature, textboxes explaining key concepts, discussion questions for each chapter, and lists of additional resources, including films, websites, and additional readings for each chapter.
The authors include both eminent and emerging scholars from around the world, drawn from law, anthropology, criminology, sociology, cultural studies, and political science and the book will be useful for undergraduate and graduate courses in these areas, as well as for scholars interested in trafficking.
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Woodlock, D., Salter, M., Conroy, E., Burke, J., & Dragiewicz, M. (2022). ‘If I’m not real, I’m Not Having an Impact’: Relationality and Vicarious Resistance in Complex Trauma Care. The British Journal of Social Work, 52(7): 4401-4417. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac054 The British Journal of Social Work, 2022
There is growing commitment to trauma-informed practice and increased recognition of risks associ... more There is growing commitment to trauma-informed practice and increased recognition of risks associated with this work. However, the benefits of working with trauma-affected clients are under-studied. Drawing on interviews with sixty-three welfare, health and legal professionals in Australia, we consider the salutogenic dynamics of work with women with experiences of complex trauma. Participants articulated an ethics of care in which professionals ally with clients against abuse and violence as well as transactional neoliberal service models. We identify this approach to trauma work as a form of vicarious resistance that challenges dichotomies of vicarious trauma and resilience.
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Woodlock, D., Salter, M., Dragiewicz, M., & Harris, B. (2023). “Living in the darkness”: Technology-facilitated coercive control, disenfranchised grief, and institutional betrayal. Violence Against Women, 29(5): 987-1004. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012221114920 Violence Against Women, 2023
This article draws on interviews with 20 Australian women subjected to technology-facilitated c... more This article draws on interviews with 20 Australian women subjected to technology-facilitated coercive control (TFCC), foregrounding their accounts of grief and institutional betrayal. Findings show that while the harms of TFCC were significant, survivors’ experiences were often minimized and dismissed by justice institutions. Women experienced grief due to abuse and separation from partners who had betrayed them. This loss was compounded when seeking help. We propose that disenfranchised grief is an underexplored response to domestic violence and institutional betrayal as well as a potential intervention site, particularly in relation to technology-facilitated abuse.
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Dragiewicz, M., Woodlock, D., Easton, H., Harris, B., & Salter, M. (2023). “I’ll be okay”: Survivors’ perspectives on participation in domestic violence research. Journal of Family Violence, Online first, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-023-00518-6 Journal of Family Violence , 2023
This article investigates survivors’ experiences participating in research interviews about techn... more This article investigates survivors’ experiences participating in research interviews about technology-facilitated domestic violence. University research ethics committees often assume that participating in research on violence and abuse is distressing for survivors. Scholars have called for research testing this assumption. This article contributes to the evidence base on the benefits and risks of asking research participants about gender-based violence.
Methods
This article is based on semi-structured interviews with 20 Australian domestic violence survivors. Template analysis was used to code the interviews and develop key themes.
Results
The five themes derived from the interviews include reflection on recovery and personal growth; helping other women; rejecting victim-shaming; empowerment; and the importance of timing.
Conclusion
All participants reported positive experiences taking part in the study. However, the authors noticed substantial differences in participant narratives across service cohorts. The implications of recruiting through channels associated with different points in trauma trajectories warrant attention.
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Journal of Family Violence , 2022
This is the first article to analyze children's involvement in technology-facilitated coercive co... more This is the first article to analyze children's involvement in technology-facilitated coercive control in Australia. The primary research question was ''How do mothers describe their children's involvement in technology-facilitated coercive control?". This article is based on incidental findings from a larger study on Australian women's experiences of technology-facilitated abuse in the context of domestic violence. Although children were not the focus of the study, semi-structured interviews with twelve mothers yielded discussion of children's involvement in the abuse. We used thematic analysis to identify key dynamics and contexts of this abuse. We found that mothers and their children are co-victims of coercive control. Mothers interviewed for the study reported that children were involved in technology-facilitated coercive control directly and indirectly. This study bridges the gap between the extant research on children and coercive control and technology-facilitated abuse by highlighting the ways children are involved in technology-facilitated coercive control. The social and legal contexts of co-parenting with abusive fathers exposed mothers and children to ongoing post-separation abuse, extending abusive fathers' absent presence in the lives of children
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Journal of Gender Based Violence, 2021
Domestic violence is a pervasive social problem in Australia. Digital media are increasingly inte... more Domestic violence is a pervasive social problem in Australia. Digital media are increasingly integral to its dynamics. Technology-facilitated coercive control (TFCC) is a form of gender-based violence. This article examines domestic violence survivors' experiences with TFCC, drawing on interviews with 20 Australian women. Study results enhance understanding of how abusers use digital media. We highlight four key contexts for understanding the role of technology in domestic violence: the coercive and controlling relationship, separation abuse, co-parenting and survivors' safety work. These contexts provide insight into the dynamics of TFCC and illuminate key differences between this and other forms of online abuse.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, 2020
Resistance to efforts to advance gender equality is a common feature of social life, whether in w... more Resistance to efforts to advance gender equality is a common feature of social life, whether in workplaces and other organisations or elsewhere. In this article, we review the typical character, dynamics of and contexts for resistance to gender equality measures. Resistance is an inevitable, although undesirable, response to efforts at progressive social change. Backlash and resistance to gender equality take common forms including: denial of the problem, disavowal of responsibility, inaction, appeasement, co-option and repression. Resistance may be individual or collective, formal or informal. Pushback against gender equality measures comes more often from members of the privileged group (men) than the disadvantaged group (women). Resistance is a predictable expression of the defence of institutionalised privilege, but it is also shaped by widespread discourses on "sex roles" and "post-feminism," the methods adopted to advance gender equality and the contexts in which they take place. Understanding the character and dynamics of resistance and backlash is vital for preventing and reducing them.
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Suzor, N., Dragiewicz, M., Harris, B., Gillett, R., Van Geelen, T., & Burgess, J. (2019). Human rights by design: The responsibilities of social media platforms to address gender-based violence online. Policy & Internet 11(1): 84 -103. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.185 Policy & Internet , 2019
Gender-based violence online is rampant, ranging from harassment of women who are public figures ... more Gender-based violence online is rampant, ranging from harassment of women who are public figures on social media to stalking intimate partners using purpose-built apps. This is not an issue that can be addressed by individual states alone, nor can it be addressed satisfactorily through legal means. The normalization of misogyny and abuse online both reflects and reinforces systemic inequalities. Addressing gender-based violence online will require the intervention of the technology companies that govern the commercial Internet to prevent and combat abuse across networks and services. We argue that international human rights instruments provide an opportunity to identify with more precision the responsibilities of telecommunications companies and digital media platforms to mitigate harm perpetrated through their networks, and ensure that the systems they create do not reproduce gendered inequality. Finally, we present initial recommendations for platforms to promote human rights and fulfill their responsibilities under the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
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British Journal of Criminology, 2019
The use of technology, including smartphones, cameras, Internet-connected devices, computers and ... more The use of technology, including smartphones, cameras, Internet-connected devices, computers and platforms such as Facebook, is now an essential part of everyday life. Such technology is used to maintain social networks and carry out daily tasks. However, this technology can also be employed to facilitate domestic and family violence. Drawing on interviews undertaken with 55 domestic and family violence survivors in Brisbane, Australia, this article outlines survivors' experiences of technology-facilitated domestic and family violence. The frequency and nature of abusive behaviours described by the women suggest this is a key form of abuse deserving more significant attention.
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Women’s Studies International Forum , 2018
Technologically mediated forms of sexual abuse have been the subject of extensive media discussio... more Technologically mediated forms of sexual abuse have been the subject of extensive media discussion in the
2000s. Arguably, digital media have transformed sexual abuse. Cultural anxieties around sexting and revenge
porn have been accompanied by an emerging body of scholarly literature on image-based sexual abuse and
harassment. Concern with image-based sexual abuse has centered on the non-consensual distribution of private
nude images of women and girls via digital media, which is often represented as harmful, dangerous for the
woman or girl in the image, and potentially criminal. Conversely, scholars have just begun to turn their attention
to men's intentional distribution of unsolicited images of their penises to women. In this article, we consider the
theoretical concepts of the continuum of sexual violence and sexual and aggrieved entitlement alongside the
interdisciplinary literature on image-based sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and exhibitionism to propose a
future research agenda for understanding the contemporary phenomenon of men sending unsolicited dick pics to
women. We argue that dick pics merit scholarly attention as an emerging cultural practice.
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Dragiewicz, M., Burgess, J., Matamoros-Fernández, A., Salter, M., Suzor, N. P., Woodlock, D., & Harris, B. (2018). Technology facilitated coercive control: Domestic violence and the competing roles of digital media platforms. Feminist Media Studies, 18(4), 609–625. Feminist Media Studies, 2018
This article describes domestic violence as a key context of online misogyny, foregrounding the r... more This article describes domestic violence as a key context of online misogyny, foregrounding the role of digital media in mediating, coordinating, and regulating it; and proposing an agenda for future research. Scholars and anti-violence advocates have documented the ways digital media exacerbate existing patterns of gendered violence and introduce new modes of abuse, a trend highlighted by this special issue. We propose the term "technology facilitated coercive control" (TFCC) to encompass the technological and relational aspects of patterns of abuse against intimate partners. Our definition of TFCC is grounded in the understanding of domestic violence (DV) as coercive, controlling, and profoundly contextualised in relationship dynamics, cultural norms, and structural inequality. We situate TFCC within the multiple affordances and modes of governance of digital media platforms for amplifying and ameliorating abuse. In addition to investigating TFCC, scholars are beginning to document the ways platforms can engender counter-misogynistic discourse, and are powerful actors for positive change via the regulation and governance of online abuse. Accordingly, we propose four key directions for a TFCC research agenda that recognises and asks new
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Romance fraud affects thousands of victims globally, yet few scholars have studied it. The dynami... more Romance fraud affects thousands of victims globally, yet few scholars have studied it. The dynamics of relationships between victims and offenders are not well understood, and the effects are rarely discussed. This article adapts the concept of psychological abuse from studies of domestic violence to better understand romance fraud. Using interviews with 21 Australian romance fraud victims, we show how offenders use non-violent tactics to ensure compliance with ongoing demands for money. This article identifies similarities and differences between domestic violence and romance fraud. We argue that thinking through domestic violence and romance fraud together offers potential benefits to both bodies of research.
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This special issue presents a series of papers by scholars who participated in a workshop entitle... more This special issue presents a series of papers by scholars who participated in a workshop entitled ‘Men's Groups: Challenging Feminism’,1 which was held at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, 26‐27 May 2014. The workshop was organised by Susan B Boyd, Professor of Law and Chair in Feminist Legal Studies at the UBC Faculty of Law, and was sponsored by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC, the Peter A Allard School of Law, the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies at UBC, and the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law. The aim of the workshop was to bring together feminist scholars from multiple disciplines
and multiple national contexts to explore a source of resistance to feminism that has been largely overlooked in scholarly research: the growing number of nationally situated and globally linked organisations acting in the name of men's rights and interests which contend that men are discriminated against in law, education and government funding, and that feminism is to blame for this. This special edition presents eight papers inspired by the workshop, authored by scholars from Canada, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden and the United States. A second special issue comprised of eight other papers inspired by the workshop was published in the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law as volume 28(1) in 2016.
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La violence conjugale connait actuellement une visibilité accrue en Australie. Les auteures du pr... more La violence conjugale connait actuellement une visibilité accrue en Australie. Les auteures du présent article utilisent les réseaux sociaux pour analyser les débats publics sur cette violence selon un cadre théorique précis, qu'Adrian Howe a appelé la question de « l'homme » : où et comment les hommes sont-ils visibles ou invisibles dans les récits de leur violence envers les femmes? L'article présente une e ´tude qualitative d'une conversation sur Twitter au sujet d'un e ´pisode axé sur la famille diffusé en février 2015 dans le cadre de l'e ´mission Q & A, a ` la télévision nationale d'Australie. Nous avons remarqué que dans cette conversation la place des hommes e ´tait remise en question. Certains tweets privilégiaient les voix et les craintes des hommes, comme l'ont fait les organisateurs et les producteurs de l'e ´mission. Cependant, il y avait une forte présence de voix féministes dans la présentation des faits, légitimant le point de vue des survivantes et relevant des e ´léments culturels antiféministes afin de défier les discours hégémoniques et patriarcaux sur la violence des hommes envers les femmes. Domestic violence is currently undergoing a period of heightened visibility in Australia. This article uses social media to analyze public discussions about this violence with respect to a specific theoretical frame, which Adrian Howe has called the ''Man'' question: where and how are men visible or invisible in narratives about their violence against women? The article presents a qualitative study of the Twitter conversation surrounding a special episode of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television program Q&A, themed around family violence, which aired in February 2015. We found that the place of men in this conversation was contested. Some tweets privileged men's voices and concerns, as did the organization and production of the program. However, feminist voices were also highly visible via presenting facts, legitimating survivor voices, and recuperating anti-feminist memes to challenge hegemonic patriarchal discourses on men's violence against women.
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Books by Molly Dragiewicz
Global Human Trafficking: Critical issues and contexts foregrounds recent empirical work on human trafficking from an interdisciplinary, critical perspective. The collection includes classroom-friendly features, such as introductory chapters that provide essential background for understanding the trafficking literature, textboxes explaining key concepts, discussion questions for each chapter, and lists of additional resources, including films, websites, and additional readings for each chapter.
The authors include both eminent and emerging scholars from around the world, drawn from law, anthropology, criminology, sociology, cultural studies, and political science and the book will be useful for undergraduate and graduate courses in these areas, as well as for scholars interested in trafficking.
Journal Articles by Molly Dragiewicz
Methods
This article is based on semi-structured interviews with 20 Australian domestic violence survivors. Template analysis was used to code the interviews and develop key themes.
Results
The five themes derived from the interviews include reflection on recovery and personal growth; helping other women; rejecting victim-shaming; empowerment; and the importance of timing.
Conclusion
All participants reported positive experiences taking part in the study. However, the authors noticed substantial differences in participant narratives across service cohorts. The implications of recruiting through channels associated with different points in trauma trajectories warrant attention.
2000s. Arguably, digital media have transformed sexual abuse. Cultural anxieties around sexting and revenge
porn have been accompanied by an emerging body of scholarly literature on image-based sexual abuse and
harassment. Concern with image-based sexual abuse has centered on the non-consensual distribution of private
nude images of women and girls via digital media, which is often represented as harmful, dangerous for the
woman or girl in the image, and potentially criminal. Conversely, scholars have just begun to turn their attention
to men's intentional distribution of unsolicited images of their penises to women. In this article, we consider the
theoretical concepts of the continuum of sexual violence and sexual and aggrieved entitlement alongside the
interdisciplinary literature on image-based sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and exhibitionism to propose a
future research agenda for understanding the contemporary phenomenon of men sending unsolicited dick pics to
women. We argue that dick pics merit scholarly attention as an emerging cultural practice.
and multiple national contexts to explore a source of resistance to feminism that has been largely overlooked in scholarly research: the growing number of nationally situated and globally linked organisations acting in the name of men's rights and interests which contend that men are discriminated against in law, education and government funding, and that feminism is to blame for this. This special edition presents eight papers inspired by the workshop, authored by scholars from Canada, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden and the United States. A second special issue comprised of eight other papers inspired by the workshop was published in the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law as volume 28(1) in 2016.
Global Human Trafficking: Critical issues and contexts foregrounds recent empirical work on human trafficking from an interdisciplinary, critical perspective. The collection includes classroom-friendly features, such as introductory chapters that provide essential background for understanding the trafficking literature, textboxes explaining key concepts, discussion questions for each chapter, and lists of additional resources, including films, websites, and additional readings for each chapter.
The authors include both eminent and emerging scholars from around the world, drawn from law, anthropology, criminology, sociology, cultural studies, and political science and the book will be useful for undergraduate and graduate courses in these areas, as well as for scholars interested in trafficking.
Methods
This article is based on semi-structured interviews with 20 Australian domestic violence survivors. Template analysis was used to code the interviews and develop key themes.
Results
The five themes derived from the interviews include reflection on recovery and personal growth; helping other women; rejecting victim-shaming; empowerment; and the importance of timing.
Conclusion
All participants reported positive experiences taking part in the study. However, the authors noticed substantial differences in participant narratives across service cohorts. The implications of recruiting through channels associated with different points in trauma trajectories warrant attention.
2000s. Arguably, digital media have transformed sexual abuse. Cultural anxieties around sexting and revenge
porn have been accompanied by an emerging body of scholarly literature on image-based sexual abuse and
harassment. Concern with image-based sexual abuse has centered on the non-consensual distribution of private
nude images of women and girls via digital media, which is often represented as harmful, dangerous for the
woman or girl in the image, and potentially criminal. Conversely, scholars have just begun to turn their attention
to men's intentional distribution of unsolicited images of their penises to women. In this article, we consider the
theoretical concepts of the continuum of sexual violence and sexual and aggrieved entitlement alongside the
interdisciplinary literature on image-based sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and exhibitionism to propose a
future research agenda for understanding the contemporary phenomenon of men sending unsolicited dick pics to
women. We argue that dick pics merit scholarly attention as an emerging cultural practice.
and multiple national contexts to explore a source of resistance to feminism that has been largely overlooked in scholarly research: the growing number of nationally situated and globally linked organisations acting in the name of men's rights and interests which contend that men are discriminated against in law, education and government funding, and that feminism is to blame for this. This special edition presents eight papers inspired by the workshop, authored by scholars from Canada, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden and the United States. A second special issue comprised of eight other papers inspired by the workshop was published in the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law as volume 28(1) in 2016.
Molly Dragiewicz is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Australia. Ms. Dragiewicz is an internationally award-winning criminologist who studies violence, gender, technology, and cybercrime. She completed the world-first study of women’s experiences of technology-facilitated coercive control and the world-first study on the ways children are involved in technology abuse. Ms. Dragiewicz is highly involved in interdisciplinary, collaborative research with community organizations working to end violence against women. She is a frequently invited speaker and trainer for judicial officers, lawyers, first responders, domestic violence advocates, and universities. She founded Australia’s first interdisciplinary graduate certificate in domestic violence and is the founder and convenor of the Brisbane Domestic Violence Research Student Network (BDVRSN). Ms. Dragiewicz also serves on the Board of Queensland’s Domestic and Family Violence Death Review and the Gold Coast Family Law Pathways Network.
DeKeseredy, W. S., Dragiewicz, M., & Schwartz, M. D. (2017). Abusive endings: Separation and divorce violence against women. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520285750
Monday, 17 November 2014
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
100 Boalt Hall
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Nancy Lemon
nlemon@law.berkeley.edu
Molly Dragiewicz
Associate Professor of Law
School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology
Remarks by Nancy K.D. Lemon, John and Elizabeth Boalt Lecturer and Director of Berkeley Law’s Domestic Violence Practicum
Conflicting claims are part of the conversation about domestic violence in professional and popular contexts. Most practitioners do not have the time, inclination, or ability to access the latest research on violence and abuse given that research articles are written for specialist audiences and locked away in password protected academic libraries. Scholars who are interested in domestic violence but do not specialize in it can easily be overwhelmed by the volume of publications. We are confronted with new studies on a daily basis. This talk will review current social science research on sex, gender, and domestic violence. Participants will learn about the state of the research and gain tools for understanding and assessing research claims.
Lunch will be provided.
Event co-sponsors: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, Domestic Violence Practicum, UCB School of Social Welfare; Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law, and Justice (Gender Journal); Boalt Hall Women's Association (BHWA); Women of Color Collective (WOCC); California Asylum Representation Clinic (CARC), and Law Students for Reproductive Justice.
abuse involving children in the context of domestic and family violence in 2019-20. The
research drew on a survey and focus groups of professionals who work with domestic
violence cases, and interviews with mothers who are survivors of domestic violence,
young people impacted by technology-facilitated abuse in domestic violence situation
and fathers in men’s behavioural change programs.
The research investigated:
• the role of technology in children’s exposure to domestic and family
violence
• the impact of technology-facilitated abuse on children and young people
• professionals’ knowledge about technology-facilitated abuse involving
children in the context of domestic and family violence
• young and adult survivors’ perspectives of technology-facilitated abuse
• perpetrators’ perspectives on technology and communication with their
children
• strategies and resources to protect children from technology-facilitated
abuse.