Rights statement: This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in British Journal of Criminology following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Charlotte Barlow, Sandra Walklate, Gender, risk assessment and coercive control: Contradictions in terms?, The British Journal of Criminology, July 2021, 61, 4 ; 887-904 https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaa104 is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/bjc/article/61/4/887/6105801
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender, risk assessment and coercive control
T2 - Contradictions in terms?
AU - Barlow, Charlotte
AU - Walklate, Sandra
N1 - This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in British Journal of Criminology following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Charlotte Barlow, Sandra Walklate, Gender, risk assessment and coercive control: Contradictions in terms?, The British Journal of Criminology, July 2021, 61, 4 ; 887-904 https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaa104 is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/bjc/article/61/4/887/6105801
PY - 2021/7/31
Y1 - 2021/7/31
N2 - In December 2015, the criminal offence of coercive control was introduced in England and Wales. Whilst, in this legislation, this concept is presumed to be gender-neutral, there is widespread agreement that coercive control is gendered. Using empirical data gathered in one police force area in the South of England, this paper offers an exploration of the feasibility of the extent to which existing risk assessment practices and understandings of risk embedded within them, can incorporate the phenomenon of coercive control. The findings highlight concerns about gender-blind, incident-led (rather than process-led) approaches to assessing risk when these approaches are set against victim/survivor concerns. These concerns highlight the inherent problems embedded in the contemporary gender-blind embrace of the concept of risk as assumed in practices of risk assessment.
AB - In December 2015, the criminal offence of coercive control was introduced in England and Wales. Whilst, in this legislation, this concept is presumed to be gender-neutral, there is widespread agreement that coercive control is gendered. Using empirical data gathered in one police force area in the South of England, this paper offers an exploration of the feasibility of the extent to which existing risk assessment practices and understandings of risk embedded within them, can incorporate the phenomenon of coercive control. The findings highlight concerns about gender-blind, incident-led (rather than process-led) approaches to assessing risk when these approaches are set against victim/survivor concerns. These concerns highlight the inherent problems embedded in the contemporary gender-blind embrace of the concept of risk as assumed in practices of risk assessment.
U2 - 10.1093/bjc/azaa104
DO - 10.1093/bjc/azaa104
M3 - Journal article
VL - 61
SP - 887
EP - 904
JO - British Journal of Criminology
JF - British Journal of Criminology
SN - 0007-0955
IS - 4
ER -