Improving Domestic Violence Civil Protection Orders: Results from Projects in Four States

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

This panel presents analyses of data from five large-scale domestic violence civil protection order projects in four states (Arizona, Delaware, North Carolina, and South Carolina). Presenters will highlight key findings from each project and make policy recommendations to increase survivor safety and decrease the collateral consequences that these orders often have for survivors.

(1) Ruth Fleury-Steiner, Susan Miller, & M. Kristen Hefner, "Systems Entanglement: How Survivors Negotiate Their Post-Separation Cases"

(2) Alesha Durfee, "Structural intersectionality, protection orders, and survivor vulnerabilities"

(3) Lisa Martin, Suzanne Swan, Marie Maness, Jessica Pomerantz, & Amber Wallace, "Civil Protection Orders and Localized Justice"

(4) Beth Moracco, "A Process Evaluation of Electronic Filing of Domestic Violence Protection Orders in North Carolina"

Sub Unit

• Area V. Victimization / 35. Causes and Correlates of Victimization

Individual Presentations

• Systems Entanglement: How Survivors Negotiate Their Post-Separation Cases - Ruth Fleury-Steiner, University of Delaware; Susan L. Miller, University of Delaware; M. Kristen Hefner, The Citadel

• Structural Intersectionality, Protection Orders, and Survivor Vulnerabilities - Alesha Durfee, Saint Louis University

• A Process Evaluation of Electronic Filing of Domestic Violence Protection Orders in North Carolina - Beth Moracco, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Civil Protection Orders and Weapon Use in South Carolina - Suzanne Swan, University of South Carolina; Lisa Martin, University of South Carolina

Chair

• Alesha Durfee, Saint Louis University

Organized by a Division or external group?

Alesha Durfee is the organizer, but please associate with the DFC.