Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): An Exploration of Costs and Consequences

• In Event: Identifying, Preventing, Investigating, Prosecuting, and Reducing Technology-Facilitated Abuse

Abstract

The Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA) is conducting a study that will produce a greater understanding of the harms that victims, and the public more generally, suffer related to TFA within an intimate partner violence (IPV) context. We examine harms with tangible financial costs and harms that are intangible, with attention also paid to the experiences of minors. This study will provide information about these harms that scholars and practitioners can use to support future research and practices to address these harms and will contribute information about the scope of the problem and its costs to society. JRSA is documenting the range of costs and consequences of three types of TFA (cyberstalking, non-consensual image-based sexual abuse, and doxing). We are estimating the prevalence of these crimes via a nationally-representative, general population survey; providing willingness-to-pay estimates of their costs via discrete choice experiments (DCEs); and using the results to estimate the costs of cyberstalking, NCP, and doxing within IPV to the United States.

Authors

• Kristina Lugo-Graulich, Justice Research and Statistics Association

• Mark Cohen, Vanderbilt University