Department of Health Behavior, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, 135 Dauer Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA.
BMC Public Health. 2024 Oct 8;24(1):2730. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-20244-y.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) disproportionately affects Black women, yet the current IPV justice response, relying on the criminal legal system, often fails them due to racialized, sexist stereotypes that disrupt Black women's claims to survivorship. Transformative justice, a community-based approach designed to repair harm between the survivor and person who caused harm and transform the social conditions that perpetuate violence, may be a promising alternative approach to facilitate justice and accountability for IPV. However, little is known about the justice preferences of Black women IPV survivors. This qualitative study sought to understand Black women IPV survivors' experiences interacting with police and their justice preferences following IPV.
Semi-structured interviews with 15 Black women IPV survivors were conducted between April 2020 and April 2022. Inductive analytic techniques derived from grounded theory were used to contextualize Black women IPV survivors' experiences.
One theme was identified that aligned with Black women IPV survivors' experiences interacting with the police: 1) fear and distrust. Four themes were identified that aligned with justice preferences: (1) resolution through dialogue, (2) therapy and counseling services, (3) resource support, and (4) protection and prevention for children. Fear and distrust of the police was mainly driven by anticipated discrimination. Survivors' justice preferences encompassed solution-based dialogue between the survivor and person who caused harm mediated by family and trusted individuals in the community, therapy services, housing support, and attention to preventing the intergenerational cycle of IPV for children as part of a community-based, holistic justice response.
Police interactions as part of the current justice response were counterproductive for Black women IPV survivors. Black women IPV survivors deserve alternative forms of justice and accountability for IPV. As an alternative justice response to IPV, transformative justice can encompass their justice preferences and promote equity and center Black women IPV survivors and their communities.
亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）不成比例地影响黑人女性，但目前依赖刑事法律系统的 IPV 司法应对往往因种族主义、性别歧视的刻板印象而失败，这些刻板印象破坏了黑人女性的生存权主张。变革司法是一种基于社区的方法，旨在修复幸存者和造成伤害的人之间的伤害，并改变使暴力永久化的社会条件，它可能是促进 IPV 司法和问责的一种有前途的替代方法。然而，人们对黑人女性 IPV 幸存者的司法偏好知之甚少。这项定性研究旨在了解黑人女性 IPV 幸存者与警方互动的经验以及她们在经历 IPV 后的司法偏好。
2020 年 4 月至 2022 年 4 月期间，对 15 名黑人女性 IPV 幸存者进行了半结构化访谈。采用源自扎根理论的归纳分析技术来理解黑人女性 IPV 幸存者的经历。
确定了一个与黑人女性 IPV 幸存者与警方互动经历相一致的主题：1）恐惧和不信任。确定了与司法偏好一致的四个主题：（1）通过对话解决，（2）治疗和咨询服务，（3）资源支持，以及（4）保护和预防儿童遭受暴力。对警察的恐惧和不信任主要是由于预期的歧视。幸存者的司法偏好包括幸存者和造成伤害的人之间通过家庭和社区中受信任的人进行的基于解决方案的对话、治疗服务、住房支持以及关注防止儿童遭受代际 IPV 循环，作为社区为基础的、整体司法应对的一部分。
警方作为当前司法应对的一部分，对黑人女性 IPV 幸存者产生了适得其反的影响。黑人女性 IPV 幸存者应该得到替代形式的 IPV 司法和问责。作为 IPV 的替代司法应对，变革司法可以包含他们的司法偏好，促进公平，并以黑人女性 IPV 幸存者及其社区为中心。
