Tackling Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence

This edited book brings together a range of expert voices - academics, researchers, practitioners, activists, and policy leads - who are responding to domestic and sexual violence (DASV) in various settings. The chapters are united in the need to embed systemic responses to these social issues within a broader accountability and support system. It provides a timely and refreshing take on tackling a pervasive social issue at a time of increased complexity and crisis while exploring the real-world consequences and impacts of service provision at a systems level, emphasising the need for greater coordination and alignment.

Chapter 1: Introduction. - Section 1: Multi-agency and community-based systems responses and applications. - Chapter 2: A systems approach analysis of a multi-agency response to domestic abuse. - Chapter 3: Promoting better outcomes for migrant victim-survivors through community-based systems interactions and levers of change. - Section 2: Tools and conceptual ideas for engendering systems thinking. - Chapter 4: A socio-technical approach to researching technologically facilitated intimate abuse. - Chapter 5: In search of hopes for change: what can systems thinking offer racial justice-oriented networks aimed at tackling systemic invisibility of Black, Brown, and other racially minoritised voices in the VAWG/DASV sphere. - Chapter 6: Transforming consciousness to change systems: Deploying critical systems thinking to enhance Rape Crisis Centre training. - Section 3: Other Institutional Responses and Applications of Systems Approaches. - Chapter 7: A systems approach to preventing and responding to abusive image sharing among young people. - Chapter 8: Systemic Responses to Online Abuse on Campus. - Chapter 9: Policing domestic abuse: a critical systems approach to surfacing values, boundaries, and assumptions.