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Case Study - Angie and Shawn (continued) Case Study - Angie and Shawn (continued) Outline the support you can give her and the options she has available to her. Reiterate to Angie that she is not alone and that you will not repeat any of your conversations to Shawn. Are there any other activities she could become involved in while at your service? E.g. women’s groups or complementary therapies. Importantly, make sure Angie feels safe in your service and is able to return. Offer to keep any information she wants about domestic violence services at your project, it may put Angie at risk to take it home. 2. Should you address the possibility of domestic violence with Shawn? 3. Are you providing a culturally appropriate service for Shawn and Angie? Ideally you should be able to give Shawn and Angie the option of a variety of workers. For instance Shawn may wish to have a Black man as a counsellor and Angie may feel more comfortable talking to a woman. Never attribute Shawn or Angie’s actions to either their age or their ethnicity. Be willing to learn from Shawn and Angie what being Black and young means to them. This means taking into account any past experiences they have had of using services both positive and negative. Because Shawn has already expressed the fact he has an ‘anger management’ problem you are able to talk to him about this. You could explore the relationship his drug and alcohol use has with his violence. You could ask Shawn some basic screening questions to see if he is perpetrating violence against Angie. Make these questions quite direct. Sample perpetrator screening questions can be found on pg 155 alongside suggestions for how you can address the violence and abuse with Shawn in keyworking sessions. You should also be alert to risk factors (see pg 159) and if you are concerned that Angie is at high level or risk, consider speaking to the MARAC Coordinator and/or the Respect phoneline for further guidance. Do not condone any of the violence Shawn may disclose. Give him the option to call the Respect phoneline who can offer short term strategies for dealing with his violence and give details of a suitable perpetrator programme. Never indicate any information that Angie has disclosed to your service, as this will put her at an even greater risk. It is important that Shawn feels comfortable with you and will therefore return to the service, hopefully with Angie. 168 © Stella Project Section 3 - Domestic Violence © Stella Project Section 3 - Domestic Violence 169
Section 3 footnotes 1 Please note that the evidence base for the information given in this section largely derives from research studies which have only focused on the needs of female survivors. Only a very limited amount of research has been undertaken into the needs of male survivors and we would be doing them a disservice to represent their needs as identical to those of women. This is supported by the evidence that we do have which clearly suggests that there are differences in support needs and that the support needs of men are clearly split along sexuality lines. In other words, gay, bisexual and transgender men are much more likely to want on-going support whereas heterosexual men tend to want a one-off information giving session. See Robinson, R. & Rowlands, J., 2006. The Dyn Project: Supporting Men Experiencing Domestic Abuse. Cardiff; and Donovan, C., Hester, M., Holmes, J., & McCarry, M., 2006. Comparing Domestic Abuse in Same Sex and Heterosexual Relationships. University of Sunderland and University of Bristol, London: ESRC. 2 An adult is defined as any person aged 18 years or over. Family members are defined as mother, father, son, daughter, brother, sister, and grandparents, whether directly related, in laws or stepfamily. 3 See the Greater London Authority, 2005. Second London Domestic Violence Strategy, London. 4 Council of Europe, 2002. Recommendation 2002/5 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on the Protection of Women Against Violence adopted on 30 April 2002. Council of Europe: Strasbourg, France. 5 Home Office, 2006. British Crime Survey, London. 6 This figure is based on the cost to key services only and of lost economic output and does not include human costs. The figure is based on national averages and does not, therefore, take into account the additional costs of London so the true figure is likely to be higher still. Greater London Authority, 2005. Second London Domestic Violence Strategy. London, available athttp://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/strategies/dom_violence/ docs/2nd-dv-strategy.pdf 7 Women and Equality Unit, 2003. Increasing Safe Accommodation Choices available from http://www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk/domestic_ violence/accommodation.htm 8 This research consisted of analysis of 1,889 incidents relating to the 692 perpetrator profiles using data collected by Northumbria Police. It also included semi-structured interviews with 17 perpetrators regarding their contact with the criminal justice system and experiences of help-seeking. Hester, M. & Westmarland, N., 2006. Service Provision for Perpetrators of Domestic Violence, University of Bristol. 9 Gadd, D., Farall, S., Dallimore, D. & Lombard, N., 2002. Domestic Abuse Against Men in Scotland. Crime and Criminal Justice Research Findings No. 61. Edinburgh: Scottish Executive. 10 Humphreys, C. & Thiara, R., 2002. Routes to Safety: Protection issues facing abused women and children and the role of outreach services. Bristol: Women’s Aid Federation England. 11 Walby, S. & Allen, J., 2004. Domestic violence sexual assault and stalking: findings from the British Crime Survey, London: Home Office. 12 Lees, S., 2000. Marital rape and marital murder. In Hanmer, J. & Itzin, N (eds.) Home Truths about Domestic Violence: Feminist Influences on Policy and Practice: A Reader. London: Routledge 13 Metropolitan Police Service, 2003. Findings from the Multi-agency Domestic Violence Murder Reviews in London. London. 14 ibid. 15 Greater London Authority, 2005. Second London Domestic Violence Strategy, London. 16 This section has been compiled from existing good practice guidance on working with female victims. However, much of the information it contains will also apply to male victims. 17 Weisz, A.N., Tolman, R.M., & Saunders, D.G., 2000. Assessing the risk of severe domestic violence: the importance of survivors’ predictions. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 15(1), 75-90. 18 Gondolf, E. W., 2002. Batterer Intervention Systems, Thousand Oaks: Sage. 19 See How Can I Help Her? Domestic violence, immigration and no recourse to public funds, 2006. Produced by Southall Black Sisters and the Women’s Resource Centre available to download at http://www.wrc.org.uk/policy/norecourse.htm 20 Gilchrist, E,, Johnson, R., Takriti, R. Weston, S., Beech, A. & Kebbell, M., 2003. Domestic violence offenders: characteristics and offending related needs, Findings 217, London: Home Office. N.B. It is unclear from the Findings how ‘dependency’ was determined 21 Finney, A., 2004. Alcohol and Intimate Partner Violence: key findings from the research, Findings 216, London: Home Office 22 Brecklin, L., 2002. The role of perpetrator alcohol use in the injury outcomes of intimate assaults, Journal of Family Violence, 17 (3), 185-196. 23 Gondolf, E.W., 2002. Batterer Intervention Systems: Issues, Outcomes and Recommendations, Thousand Oaks: Sage 24 Galvani, S., 2004. Responsible Disinhibition: Alcohol, Men and Violence To Women, Addiction, Research and Theory, 12 (4), 357-371. 25 Jacobs, J., 1998. The Links Between Substance Misuse and Domestic Violence. London: Alcohol Concern 170 © Stella Project Section 3 - Domestic Violence © Stella Project Section 3 - Domestic Violence 171
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