Abstract

This research describes women’s engagement with the civil legal system as a safety strategy when experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV). Using a critical lens, it explores how violence victimization, help-seeking, and social identities influence victim-survivors’ decisions to seek civil protection orders (POs) and whether they obtain them. Using cross-sectional survey methods, we recruited women experiencing IPV in relationships with men (N = 660) from ten emergency shelters in a metropolitan region of the southwestern United States. Violence and help-seeking predicted whether victim-survivors sought POs, whereas social identities predicted whether they received them, revealing the influence of social identities on civil justice outcomes.

摘要

这项研究将妇女参与民事法律体系描述为在遭受亲密伴侣暴力 (IPV) 时的一种安全策略。它使用批判性的视角探讨了暴力受害、寻求帮助和社会身份如何影响受害者-幸存者寻求民事保护令 (PO) 的决定以及他们是否获得保护令。我们使用横断面调查方法， 从美国西南部大都市地区的十个紧急避难所招募了在与男性的关系中经历过 IPV 的女性 ( N = 660)。暴力和寻求帮助预测了受害者幸存者是否寻求 PO，而社会身份预测了他们是否收到了 PO，揭示了社会身份对民事司法结果的影响。