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Item Childhood Trauma and Dissociative Intimate Partner Violence(Sage, 2018) Webermann, Aliya R.; Murphy, Christopher M.The present study assesses childhood abuse/neglect as a predictor of dissociative intimate partner violence (IPV) among 118 partner-abusive men. One third (36%) endorsed dissociative IPV, most commonly losing control (18%), surroundings seeming unreal (16%), feeling someone other than oneself is aggressing (16%), and seeing oneself from a distance aggressing (10%). Childhood physical abuse/neglect predicted IPV-specific derealization/depersonalization, aggressive self-states, and flashbacks to past violence. Childhood emotional abuse/neglect predicted derealization/depersonalization, blackouts, and flashbacks. Childhood sexual abuse uniquely predicted amnesia. Other potential traumas did not predict dissociative IPV, suggesting dissociative IPV is influenced by trauma-based emotion dysregulation wherein childhood abuse/neglect survivors disconnect from their abusive behavior.Item Colorado’s Innovative Response to Domestic Violence Offender Treatment: Current Achievements and Recommendations for the Future(University of Colorado Denver, 2015-09) Richards, Tara N.; Gover, Angela R.; Tomsich, Elizabeth A.The Domestic Violence Offender Management Board (DVOMB) is mandated by the Colorado legislature to ensure the effectiveness of domestic violence offender treatment in Colorado by overseeing the implementation and evaluation of the Standards for Treatment with Court Ordered Domestic Violence Offenders (referred to hereafter as Standards). This report reviews the process and risk assessment tool (Domestic Violence Risk and Needs Assessment – referred to hereafter as DVRNA) used in Colorado to assign domestic violence offenders to treatment intensity levels at intake and the decision-making processes regarding treatment outcomes. The current study also examines the distribution of offenders by treatment intensity level at intake and at final assessment to understand the process and reasons for offender movement across treatment intensity levels. This report further informs the DVOMB as to multiple stakeholders’ views (treatment victim advocates, probation officers, and domestic violence treatment providers) about the implementation of the Standards. Given that critical risk factors require automatic placement in treatment intensity level B or C, this report informs the DVOMB as to the presence of critical risk factors among domestic violence offenders in Colorado. Finally, interviews with members of multi-disciplinary treatment teams (MTTs) highlighted several opportunities for strategic improvement of domestic violence offender treatment in Colorado. We present stakeholder employment of and fidelity to the state Standards, highlight current achievements, and provide actionable recommendations for improving upon the current model of domestic violence treatment in Colorado.Item Compare Rae Carruth's sentence to Marissa Alexander's: The need for reform is clear.(Salon.com, LLC, 2018-10-23) Watkins, Dwight; Communications Design; Communications DesignThey're both free now. But a domestic violence victim shouldn't be treated the same as a man who conspired to kill.Item Framing Femicide-Suicide: The Media’s Portrayal of Female Intimate Partner Homicide Victims and Male Perpetrated Homicide-Suicides(The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminoolgy, 2011-11) Richards, Tara N.; Gillespie, Lane K.; Smith, M. DwayneThe news media play a substantial role in shaping society’s perceptions of social issues, including domestic violence. However, minimal research has been conducted to examine whether news media frame stories of femicide within the context of domestic violence. Using frame analysis, the present research compares newspaper articles representing 113 cases of femicide that define the murder as domestic violence to a random sample of 113 cases without coverage defining the femicide as domestic violence. Findings indicate that both groups are represented by multiple frames, including a previously unidentified frame that places the femicide in the context of domestic violence as a social problem.Item SANCTUARY(2017-07-02) Myers, Rebecca; Gerard, Philip; Blais, Madeleine; MFA in Creative NonfictionSanctuary is my memoir about living on a wildlife sanctuary in the Adirondacks from 1973 to 1982. An idealistic artist, freshly graduated from college and newly married, arrives with her biologist husband in the Adirondacks of upstate New York in 1973 to develop a nature center on a 1,300-acre wildlife sanctuary. Little does she know she will be living a paradox when her husband’s violent, unpredictable behavior eventually forces her to seek sanctuary elsewhere. But long before and after she leaves, the sylvan peace and beauty of the wildlife sanctuary dwells within her. She admires and respects her husband for his vast knowledge of nature, and he is proud of his rapt student who helps him guide nature hikes and give programs, and draws animals for the exhibits and brochures. She learns firsthand how to raise wild orphans so she can set them free: a fawn, woodchuck, skunk, black duck, and great-horned owl. On the sanctuary, she learns to let go of many things close to her heart until she has to let go of the sanctuary itself. Sanctuary explores a deep sense of place, a love of nature, and the complexity of shadows and light that shifts in nature and within a marriage. The silence of deep-snow winters is balanced by migrating bird concerts and barn dance fiddle music. Spells of solitude are punctuated by encounters with lumberjacks, conservation officers, wild orphans, and an elderly woman who shares her home with beavers. Set in the early years of the environmental and feminist movements, this lyrical memoir depicts a life up-close in nature while portraying a richness of what is gained when something is lost, and how we can be transformed through the wildness of nature.Item Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms, and Dissociative Experiences during Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration(2016-01-01) LaMotte, Adam Douglas; Murphy, Christopher M.; Psychology; PsychologyResearch with intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetrators has found that a subset of this population reports dissociative experiences during their violence (e.g., inability to remember violence [despite admission that it had occurred]; flashbacks during violence). However, to date, the literature examining this phenomenon has been primarily limited to clinical observations and case studies, and there is a need for more thorough empirical investigation regarding the prevalence and correlates of dissociative violence among individuals in IPV intervention programs. The large research base indicating a connection between trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and general dissociation suggests that these are relevant variables to examine in relation to dissociative experiences during IPV perpetration. The primary aims of this study were: (1) to provide descriptive information about the rates of endorsement of dissociative experiences during IPV perpetration, (2) to extend prior research on the validity of a questionnaire designed to assess dissociative IPV experiences via novel correlations with alcohol and drug use, (3) to examine bivariate associations between trauma exposure history, the severity of PTSD symptoms, and dissociative IPV experiences, and (4) to test a mediation model in which PTSD symptom severity accounts for the association between trauma exposure history and dissociative IPV experiences. Participants were 302 men presenting for services at a community-based IPV intervention program. Results indicated that 22.2% of participants reported one or more dissociative experiences during partner violence perpetration. Dissociative IPV perpetration was not significantly correlated with alcohol use, but showed a significant positive correlation, in the small range of magnitude, with drug use frequency. Additionally, dissociative IPV perpetration showed significant positive correlations with the total number of trauma experiences reported and PTSD symptoms, with effect sizes in the small and medium ranges of magnitude, respectively. Finally, PTSD symptoms significantly mediated the relationship between total number of trauma experiences reported and dissociative IPV perpetration. Findings indicate a potentially meaningful relationship between trauma, PTSD symptoms, and dissociative experiences during IPV perpetration.Item An updated assessment of personal protective order statutes in the United States: Have statutes become more progressive in the past decade?(Violence Against Women, 2017-08-21) Richards, Tara; Tudor, Alison; Gover, AngelaThe Personal Protection Order (PPO) is one civil intervention all states provide to victims of domestic violence; however, each state varies widely in who can access PPOs, what protections are included in PPOs, and how they are enforced. Given the many changes to state PPO statutes over the last decade, this research replicates and updates DeJong and Burgess-Proctor’s research on PPOs’ victim-friendliness (using states’ 2003 PPO statutes) by examining states’ 2014 PPO statutes. Findings suggest that states have become more victim-friendly with most states ranking in the highest category of victim-friendliness. Implications for policy and practice are discussed.Item Women's Use of Intimate Partner Aggression: Associations with Everyday Sexism(2020-01-01) Miles-McLean, Haley A; Murphy, Christopher M; Psychology; PsychologyResearch has indicated that women engage in intimate partner aggression (IPA) at similar rates relative to men and that women's IPA negatively impacts their survivor partners. However, studies also document important differences among women's use of IPA compared to men, contributing to ongoing discourse regarding the relevance of gender to IPA. This investigation uses an intersectional feminist lens to evaluate why women's gender may be relevant to their use of IPA, specifically considering if women's experiences of oppression in the form of everyday sexism is associated with their IPA use. Prior studies have documented that experiences of heterosexism and racism are related to IPA use, raising questions about whether women's experiences of sexist discrimination are also associated with IPA. This investigation explores this novel research question among 626 women recruited online through Amazon Mechanical Turk. Study participants reported on everyday sexist experiences (i.e., sexist events, benevolent sexism, and partner-enacted sexism), emotional IPA, physical IPA, gender-based violence, recent stressful experiences, and psychological distress symptoms. Overall, the results supported the hypothesis that women's everyday sexism experiences are associated with their use of IPA. Women's experiences of sexist events, benevolent sexism, and partner-enacted sexism were all significantly and positively correlated with emotional and physical IPA use with small to medium effects. In addition, women's sexism experiences were related to IPA use both directly and indirectly through psychological distress and were associated with IPA even when controlling for recent stressful experiences and gender-based violence exposure. The findings support intersectional feminist theories of IPA by recognizing the importance of considering sociocultural context when working to conceptualize why identity factors such as gender may be relevant to IPA. They further demonstrate the need to develop gender-responsive IPA prevention and intervention efforts and the need to consider broader sociocultural changes that can reduce women's experiences of sexist discrimination.