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Dissertation
Invisible Violence: An Institutional Ethnography of a Batterer Intervention Program
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
05/2024
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000006516
Abstract
In June of 2020, Violence Free Colorado released an open letter entitled “Moment of Truth” in which over forty sexual assault and domestic violence coalitions around the United States signed. This statement was intended to highlight the coercive, violent, and racist partnerships with the criminal justice system in agencies that do anti-violence work. Involved in this work are batterer intervention programs (BIP) that partner with criminal justice agencies for referrals and funding. To explore these issues further, this dissertation implemented an institutional ethnographic (IE) design rooted in the standpoint of the experiences of the clinicians and staff to uncover institutionalized ruling relations around which organizational practices are coordinated. Using a mixed-method approach consisting of in-depth interviews, participant-observation, and textual analysis, this study sought to uncover how systems of oppression permeate and translate violence in a batterer intervention program in a Pacific Northwest metropolitan setting. Applying Young’s (2011) theoretical framework of oppression to the analysis, themes of exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence emerged at an organizational level with staff as well as being translated onto clients. The ruling relations that emerged highlight macrolevel institutional influences that impede and harm program fidelity which work against eradicating intimate partner violence.
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- Title
- Invisible Violence
- Creators
- Cheyenne Foster
- Contributors
- Faith E. Lutze (Chair)Mary Stohr (Committee Member)Laurie Drapela (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Criminal Justice and Criminology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 136
- Identifiers
- 99901121130001842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation