Technology and violence against women

• In Event: Roundtable: Technology and Rural Criminology

Abstract

This paper explores ‘digital coercive control’ – the use of technologies by perpetrators of violence against women – in rural contexts. Such behaviours intersect with other forms of violence, but has unique and distinct features, such as ‘spacelessness’. It is, however, vital to consider a spatial framework: the geographically situated experiences of and risk faced by victim/survivors in regional, rural and remote locations. As interviews and focus groups with women and support workers demonstrate, technology can pose threats to wellbeing, safety and security, but also offers channels to access and provide support, advocacy and 'justice'.

Author

• Bridget Harris, Queensland University of Technology