Response Based Approaches to the Study of Interpersonal Violence

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction to Response Based Approaches to the Study of Interpersonal Violence

   1. Introduction to Response Based Approaches to the Study of Interpersonal Violence

      • Margareta Hydén, David Gadd, Allan Wade

      Pages 1-16

3. Understanding Interpersonal Violence from Response Based Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Like Father, Like Son? Young Men’s Responses to Domestic Violence between Parents

      • David Gadd, Mary-Louise Corr, Claire Fox, Ian Butler

      Pages 19-35

   3. Narratives as Responses to Interpersonal Violence: The Case of HIV

      • Corinne Squire

      Pages 36-55

   4. Rules and Representations: Social Networks’ Responses to Men’s Violence against Women in South Africa

      • Taryn van Niekerk, Floretta Boonzaier

      Pages 56-76

   5. The Response Network

      • Margareta Hydén

      Pages 77-97

   6. Caught In Between: Grandparents Responding to Violence and Negotiating Family Roles and Responsibilities

      • Linn Sandberg

      Pages 98-114

4. Professional Responses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. ‘The Best Interests of the Child’ or the ‘Best Interests of the Family’? How the Child Protection Services in Sweden Respond to Domestic Violence

      • Ann-Charlotte Münger

      Pages 117-137

   3. ‘Having the Violence Leave’: Women’s Experiences of the ‘Safe at Home’ Programme

      • Angela Hartwig

      Pages 138-155

   4. Displaying Shame: Men’s Violence towards Women in a Culture of Gender Equality

      • Lucas Gottzén

      Pages 156-175

   5. ‘We’re in the 21st Century After All’: Analysis of Social Responses in Individual Support and Institutional Reform

      • Linda Coates, Allan Wade

      Pages 176-195

   6. The Role of Response-Based Practice in Activism

      • Cathy Richardson

      Pages 196-215

   7. Conclusion: The Difference a Response Based Approach Makes to the Study of Interpersonal Violence

      • David Gadd, Margareta Hydén

      Pages 216-224

5. Back Matter

   Pages 225-234

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Interpersonal violence has been the focus of research within the social sciences for some considerable time. Yet inquiries about the causes of interpersonal violence and the effects on the victims have dominated the field of research and clinical practice. Central to the contributions in this volume is the idea that interpersonal violence is a social action embedded in responses from various actors. These include actions, words and behaviour from friends and family, ordinary citizens, social workers and criminal justice professionals. These responses, as the contributors to this volume all show, make a difference in terms of how violence is understood, resisted and come to terms with in its immediate aftermath and over the longer term. 


Bringing together an international network of scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines and fields of practice, this book maps and expands research on interpersonal violence. In doing so, it opens an important new terrain on which social responses to violence can be fully interrogated in terms of their intentions, meanings and outcomes. 

• Crime
• victims
• response based approaches
• interpersonal violence
• gender
• domestic violence
• criminology
• crime
• Institution
• Nation
• service
• violence

• Linköping University, Sweden

  Margareta Hydén

• University of Manchester, UK

  David Gadd

• Centre for Response-Based Practice, Canada

  Allan Wade

Floretta Boonzaier, University of Cape Town, South Africa Ian Butler, University of Bath, UK Linda Coates, Okanagan College, Canada Mary-Louise Corr, Queens University Belfast, UK Claire Fox, Keele University, UK David Gadd, Manchester University, UK Lucas Gottzén, Linköping University, Sweden Angela Hartwig, The Women's Council for Domestic and Family Violence Services, Australia Margareta Hydén, Linköping University, Sweden Ann-Charlotte Münger, Linköping University, Sweden Taryn van Niekerk, University of Cape Town, South Africa Cathy Richardson, Centre for Response-Based Practice, Canada Linn Sandberg, Linköping University, Sweden Corinne Squire, University of East London, UK Allan Wade, Centre for Response-Based Practice, Canada

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