Journal
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 584-602Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1077801216646277
Keywords
technology; stalking; domestic violence
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- Victoria Legal Aid
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We focus on an emerging trend in the context of domestic violence-the use of technology to facilitate stalking and other forms of abuse. Surveys with 152 domestic violence advocates and 46 victims show that technology-including phones, tablets, computers, and social networking websites-is commonly used in intimate partner stalking. Technology was used to create a sense of the perpetrator's omnipresence, and to isolate, punish, and humiliate domestic violence victims. Perpetrators also threatened to share sexualized content online to humiliate victims. Technology-facilitated stalking needs to be treated as a serious offense, and effective practice, policy, and legal responses must be developed.
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