Osborn Max, Rajah Valli
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, USA.
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY, USA.
Trauma Violence Abuse. 2022 Dec;23(5):1405-1419. doi: 10.1177/1524838020967348. Epub 2020 Oct 27.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) literature addresses the ways in which women oppose violent male partners through acts of "everyday resistance." There is a limited understanding, however, of the relationship between women's resistance and their formal help-seeking in the context of IPV. Our scoping review, which includes 74 articles published in English-language journals between 1994 and 2017, attempts to help fill this gap by developing systematic knowledge regarding the following research questions: (1) How are formal institutional responses discussed within the literature on resistance to IPV? (2) How does institutional help-seeking facilitate or obstruct IPV survivors' personal efforts to resist violence? We find that institutions and organizations succeed in facilitating resistance processes when they counter victim-blaming ideas and provide IPV survivors with shared community and a sense of control over their futures. However, they fall short in terms of helping survivors by expecting survivors to adhere to a rigid narrative about appropriate responses to violence, devoting insufficient attention to individual-level factors impacting survivors' vulnerability and ability to access help, and replicating abuse dynamics when interacting with survivors. Policy and practice implications are discussed.
亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）相关文献探讨了女性如何通过“日常抵抗”行为来对抗暴力男性伴侣。然而，对于在亲密伴侣暴力背景下女性的抵抗与她们寻求正式帮助之间的关系，人们的理解有限。我们的范围综述涵盖了1994年至2017年间发表在英文期刊上的74篇文章，试图通过就以下研究问题形成系统知识来填补这一空白：（1）在关于抵抗亲密伴侣暴力的文献中，正式机构的应对措施是如何被讨论的？（2）寻求机构帮助如何促进或阻碍亲密伴侣暴力幸存者抵抗暴力的个人努力？我们发现，当机构和组织反驳指责受害者的观念，并为亲密伴侣暴力幸存者提供共享社区以及对未来的掌控感时，它们就能成功促进抵抗进程。然而，它们在帮助幸存者方面存在不足，因为它们期望幸存者遵循关于对暴力的适当应对的刻板叙述，对影响幸存者脆弱性和获得帮助能力的个人层面因素关注不足，并且在与幸存者互动时重现了虐待模式。文中还讨论了政策和实践方面的影响。
