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Included or Excluded? Narratives of the Social Networks’ Responses to Women Exposed to Violence in Closed Relationships . Margareta Hydén Linköping University. Response-based Approaches to the Study of Interpersonal Violence: New Answers to Old Questions. Interpersonal Violence.
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Included or Excluded? Narratives of the Social Networks’ Responses to Women Exposed to Violence in Closed Relationships Margareta Hydén Linköping University
Response-based Approaches to the Study of Interpersonal Violence:New Answers to Old Questions
Interpersonal Violence • Violence towards women in close relationships • Child abuse • Child sexual abuse • Bullying • Gang violence
Violence towards women in close relationships • Research concerning: • Incidence • Prevalence • Cause • Effect
Questions • Why doesn’t she leave?
Questions • Why doesn’t she leave? • Why is he violent?
Questions • Why doesn’t she leave? • Why is he violent? • What can we do about it?
Missing • Theoretical frame that takes responses to IPV into account
Responses to Interpersonal Violence • Interpersonal Violence is embedded in social responses: • ”I hit her because I couldn’t stand her nagging” • Responded to socially by her social network, by the state etc. • Responses are contextually based
Narrative analysis of responses to men’s violence towards women in close relationships • The study of battered women’s social network’s responses • 45 women interviewed about their social networks responses, using “the plate model” as a starting point for a narrative interview
Narrative studies of responses to violence: New answers to old questions • Why doesn’t she leave? • Why is he violent? • What can we do about it?
Response-basedapproaches to the studyof interpersonal violence internationalresearch network www.liu.se/riv margareta.hyden@liu.se