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Haile, Susan (2023) Giving victims a voice but not the dignity of being heard: a feminist exploration of victims' voices in domestic homicide reviews. PhD thesis, University of Gloucestershire.
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This thesis examines Victims' Voices in Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHR), the mandatory legislated process in the UK that is designed to learn from the fatality of Intimate Partner Femicide (IPF) and Intimate Partner Suicide (IPS) by finding the trail of abuse the victim experienced and to use the learning from that journey to improve policies and procedures to prevent domestic violence and improve service responses for all victims. The Multi-Agency Statutory Guidance for the Conduct of Domestic Homicide Reviews (Home Office, 2016) recommends that the narrative of each review should articulate the abuse through the eyes of the victim by involving the victim's family and friends to provide their loved one's voice. DHRs have been described as a mechanism that can be useful to all victims of Intimate Partner Abuse (IPA) and victims who have been ' perpetually silenced ' (Lodge, 2020, p.274). This research investigates if victims' voices are routinely included within DHR reports and further, how they are articulated and presented: the research asks if victims are given a voice but not the dignity of being heard. Most victims ofIPF are women, and this research uses a feminist informed thematic review to interrogate the data gathered from interviewing bereaved families and analysing published DHR reports. The research confirms that there is a lack of consistency in how victims' voices are presented in DHRs and with who presents them and suggests that while victims' families may be invited to provide the victim 's voice, they are not routinely afforded the dignity of being heard. The research identifies that there is inconsistency in how families are included in DHRs despite the Home Office Guidance (20 ].6) providing the criteria (p.17); the process often takes much longer than the recommended six months (p.17), there is no unifonn style in the written reports although there is a template for the layout (p.35); the learning from DHRs is often sparse, restricted and not shared, particularly with the families/co-victims. These observations are not unique and have been raised by other scholars, (see Boughton, 2022; Todd et al., 2021; Chantler et al., 2020; Robinson et al., 2019; Bridger et al., 2017; Sharp-Jeffs and Kelly, 2016) but the impact they have on families providing the victims' voices has not previously been discussed. The research proposes an alternative model for conducting DHRs that will include the victims' voices and relieve CSPs from the onerous task of conducting and financing reviews into deaths due to IPF and IPS.
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| Additional Information: | A print copy of this thesis is available for reference use only. | |||||||||
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Domestic homicide, UK; Victims; Intimate partner femicide; Intimate partner abuse (IPA); Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHR) | |||||||||
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology. > HV6001 Criminology > HV6250 Victims of Crimes. Victimology | |||||||||
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Education and Science | |||||||||
| Depositing User: | Susan Turner | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 04 Sep 2024 10:59 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2024 11:00 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/14339 |
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