Male victims of female-perpetrated intimate partner violence, help-seeking, and reporting behaviors: A qualitative study.

SamaelET · 2022-12-02T23:08:35+00:00

Male victims appeared to be heavily influenced by societal perceptions of IPV as something that happens to women and not men, resulting in reluctance to disclose any abuse victimization. Men have commonly been found to have difficulty articulating abusive experiences (Corbally, 2015; Morgan & Wells, 2016) and have been observed to intentionally downplay the gender of the perpetrator (Douglas et al., 2012). There was evidence in our study that the men experienced fears that their victimization would result in challenges to their masculinity, with fears that they would be seen as weak.

Male victims of IPV described their experiences of reporting the abuse to police. Victims felt that the police and legal system failed to respond adequately to their reports, describing police reactions as doubtful, disbelieving, and ridiculing.

It appeared from the current study that unhelpful police reactions to reports of male IPV victimization were primarily underpinned by the incongruence of IPV victimization with masculine gender norms, and the attendant societal understanding of IPV as exclu- sively perpetrated by men victimizing women.Some researchers argue that this is a byproduct of a genderparadigm surrounding IPV.

Participants also provided explanations of why they did not formally report the abuse to police, commonly citing fear of being disbelieved, fear of being arrested themselves, and concern over a lack of witnesses. These fears closely reflected what actually occurred when men did report IPV to police. It appears that participants in this study understood the gendered societal and legal narrative that surrounds IPV, and they, given this knowledge, were able to predict the likely outcome of formally reporting their victimization [...] In addition, male victims reported that female perpetrators capitalized on these female-biased societal percep- tions, to facilitate secondary abuse. For example, female perpetra- tors were reported to threaten male victims that they would never see their children again.

Title	Male victims of female-perpetrated intimate partner violence, help-seeking, and reporting behaviors: A qualitative study.
Author	SamaelET
Upvotes	3
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Date	December 2, 2022 11:03 PM UTC (3 years ago)
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