28 research outputs found
Generic Personal Safety Applications; empowering victims of Domestic Violence and Abuse? A Practitioner Lens
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.Bespoke and generic Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) Personal Safety Applications (PSAs) have become a popular choice for strategic crime prevention projects by those in the criminal justice sector; to achieve justice through digital means as part of the wider digital justice project. These PSAs have been heralded as tools for the protection, empowerment, and resilience building of victims in DVA, despite limited independent evaluations. This article explores the use of a generic PSA, which the police have adopted for rollout to victims of DVA in one region of the United Kingdom. We undertook a thematic analysis of data taken from a roundtable and three follow up focus groups with practitioners from the police, criminal justice, DVA specialist sector, and victim services, alongside the PSA development team. We found both some support for using this PSA and serious concerns regarding its use in DVA situations
Personal safety mobile applications: Just another way of responsibilising survivors of IPV or a tool for empowerment? A survivorâs view!
Research and the academic literature have indicated the growing use of technologies such as the use of mobile phone applications as a tool either for the commission of IPV by perpetrators (âtech abuseâ) or as an âeducationalâ or âawareness raisingâ forum/feature for both perpetrators and survivors of IPV. However, there is less exploration currently regarding whether and how this technology might be used as an empowerment tool in cases of IPV. Our research contributes towards closing this current gap.
In this paper we focus on the preliminary results of our project examining the use of a mobile personal safety application in cases of IPV with a group of individual survivors assessed as medium/standard risk of âDomestic Violenceâ in the UK.
Our research sample consists of voluntary participants receiving services from specialist domestic abuse support agencies in one region of England. We also completed a qualitative analysis of data collected from a series of group and individual interviews.
Results
Drawing on the findings we examine the perceptions of the personal safety of survivors of IPV comparing those who choose to use the personal safety application with a control group whom did not. We explore intersectional differences between groups and what role the mobile phone safety application played as both a tool to assist towards the âprotectionâ of survivors as an element of their âsafety plansâ, and whether the personal safety application was perceived as an empowerment and personal resilience tool.
We provide some recommendations which outline the strengths and challenges of personal safety mobile phone applications and how their utilisation can be disseminated more widely across the Domestic Violence sector
Juvenile-onset and adult-onset demodicosis in dogs in the UK: prevalence and breed associations
Objectives
To explore epidemiological features of demodicosis relevant to UK veterinary general practitioners. Breed risk factors were proposed as distinct between juvenileâonset and adultâonset disease.
Materials and Methods
The study used anonymised clinical data on dogs under primary veterinary care at practices enrolled in the UK VetCompass Programme. Case inclusion required recording of a final demodicosis diagnosis for a dermatological condition that was present during the 2013 study period. Risk factor analysis used multivariable logistic regression modelling.
Results
In dogs aged 4âyears (adultâonset), the 1âyear period prevalence was 0.05% (95% confidence interval: 0.0.04 to 0.06). Six breeds showed increased odds of demodicosis compared with crossbred dogs: Chinese sharâpei, shihâtzu, West Highland white terrier, pug, boxer and Border terrier.
Clinical Significance
Juvenileâonset demodicosis is much more common (about 10 times higher) than the adultâonset form. Knowledge of the predisposed breeds for these two presentations can assist with diagnosis and support the concept of distinct aetiopathogenetic phenotypes
Mindfulness, Compassion, and Self-Compassion as Moderator of Environmental Support on Competency in Mental Health Nursing
Abstract: This research explored the established relationship between environmental support and competency for Mental Health Nurses, intending to investigate whether the tendency to display higher levels of mindfulness, compassion, and self-compassion might buffer the effect of a poor environment on competency. One questionnaire was comprised of five pre-developed questionnaires, which included all items examining environmental support, competency, mindfulness, compassion, and self-compassion. Mental Health Nurses (n = 103) were recruited from online forums and social media group pages in the UK. The result showed environmental support related positively to competency. Furthermore, the positive relationship of competency with environmental support was moderated when controlling for compassion but did not with mindfulness and self-compassion, although subscales showed some further interactions. When poor environmental support influences the competency of mental health professionals, compassion and mindfulness-based interactions may have the potential to uphold competency
Pets and Domestic Abuse Research: Local Impact March 2019
This is Di Turgoose and Ruth E. McKieâs second blog in a series of six on Pets/Companion Animals and Domestic Abuse. This blog details the local reach, influence and impact of their work in this under researched area at a local event on 1st March 2019
Beyond Domestic Violence, Companion Animals and Independent Agency: Why as criminologists we need to converse beyond speciesism, towards an intersectional approach
blogThis is Di Turgoose and Dr Ruth E. McKieâs 5th blog post in a series of 6 on pets and domestic abuse. This post focuses on the national reach of their work in the summer of 2019 at the âHidden Victimsâ panel of the British Society of Criminology (BSC) Annual conference where Di and Ruth were invited to present by the @victims BSC research group.https://www.svdv.org.uk/beyond-domestic-violence-companion-animals-and-independent-agency-why-as-criminologists-we-need-to-converse-beyond-speciesism-towards-an-intersectional-approach
Non-Human Animals at the Intersection of Domestic Violence: The Call for anthropocentricism to GIVE WAY!
BlogThis is Dr Ruth E. McKie and Di Turgooseâs 6th blog in a series of 6 on their work on pets and domestic abuse. The focus of this blog in on the international reach of their work in the autumn of 2019 at the European Conference on Domestic Violence conference.https://www.svdv.org.uk/non-human-animals-at-the-intersection-of-domestic-violence-the-call-for-anthropocentricism-to-give-way
Ontological Diversifications: Greening Domestic Violence and Abuse studies on Companion Animals
BlogThis is Di Turgoose and Ruth McKieâs 4th blog post of six on pets and domestic abuse. This post focuses on the national reach of their work in the summer of 2019 at the British Criminological Society Annual Conference which was held in June 2019.https://www.svdv.org.uk/ontological-diversifications-greening-domestic-violence-and-abuse-studies-on-companion-animals
Ontological Diversifications: Greening Domestic Violence and Abuse Studies on Companion Animals. Protection, Prevention and Intervention
Arguably, first championed by the second wave of feminism, the origins of the Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) sector in the UK are intertwined with issues of gender inequality and concerns about the harm and violence caused (primarily to women) within the domestic sphere. Exploring this harm, within the post-feminist era, recognition of DVA has tended to follow a hate crime trajectory where, hidden victims remain with vulnerable groups not attaining ideal victim status. As a result, these victims tend to be denied individual agency.
We wish to start a conversation that uses a common model within the DVA sector â The Power and Control Wheel â to argue that, the concept of denial of agency is equally applicable to the relatively underexplored area of companion animals/pets as hidden victims of DVA. We utilise perspectives from the DVA and green criminology literature that challenges the hierarchal concept of the species (anthropocentrism) placing humans at the top of a policy agenda comparative to non-human species (speciesism). In doing so, we propose a theoretical and ontological diversification within the field of DVA studies, combining the work of Green criminologists to help give voice to non-humans as independent agents that experience DVA
Domestic Violence and Abuse, âPetsâ and Agency: A conversation we need to have and a call for action 2019
In this first blog in a series of six co-authors Di Turgoose and Dr Ruth E. McKie outline their recent (2019) work on pets/companion animals and domestic violence and abuse. In essence Ruth and Di have started a conversation about, and have called into question the idea of 'persons' specifically who and what counts as a victim/survivor in domestic violence and abuse âcasesâ