Dissertation
The Violent Experience: An Observational Analysis of the Interactions Between Victims, Offenders, and Third Parties of Intimate Partner Violence and First Responders
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
01/2020
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/107489
Abstract
Violence by an intimate partner is linked to both immediate and long-term health consequences, as well as social, and economic consequences. Research has shown that factors at all levels, including individual, developmental, relationship, and community, contribute to intimate partner violence. Following scholarly works and media attention, criminal justice responses to intimate partner violence were developed. Recent research has given arise to the effects of these responses on victims and offenders. Although extensive, this literature lacks a clear understanding of the exchange between those factors and coordinated responses. This is due to the lack of focus on interactions between the two.
The current study establishes a rigorous exploratory evaluation of interactions between respondents and first responders, specifically through the lens of observational qualitative and quantitative analyses of first responder body worn camera footage. The present study examined these interactions by analyzing observations in a multi-phase process.
With a sample of 372 individual observations, which includes 98 unique incidents, the first phase quantitatively describes the observed participant characteristics. Data from this phase demonstrated an overview of all respondent characteristics and responses which are representative of both the sample area and similar to those found in literature. The second phase described the collection of observed themes. Data from two thematic analyses uncovered responding officer distress, triggered by respondent individual, situational, and environmental characteristics. Using a subsample, the third phase describes the development of interactions. This revealed variation in both respondent information, as well as first responder information processing. These analyses found that officers were better able to process information in some interactions, and unable to in others. The fourth phase observed that respondents who identified as both victims and offenders present additional sources of role conflict and confusion for responding officers. The final phase developed typologies of the methods responding officer’s use when making service referrals. These typologies reveal a relationship between interaction intensity and responses.
The study concludes with a discussion of the findings, limitations of the methodology, and future considerations for research on intimate partner violence and respondent and first responder interactions.
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- Title
- The Violent Experience: An Observational Analysis of the Interactions Between Victims, Offenders, and Third Parties of Intimate Partner Violence and First Responders
- Creators
- Brianne Michelle Posey
- Contributors
- David A Makin (Advisor)Dale W Willits (Committee Member)Melanie-Angela Neuilly (Committee Member)Joanne E Belknap (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 425
- Identifiers
- 99900581498701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation