All Outputs (4)

Domestic abuse: Analysing women's use of violence (2023)
Book Chapter
Couto, L. (2023). Domestic abuse: Analysing women's use of violence. In S. Banwel, L. Black, D. Cecil, Y. Djamba, S. Kimuna, E. Milne, L. Seal, & E. Tenkorang (Eds.), The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence (141-153). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-255-620231010

Now and again the discourse of women's violence being ignored and minimised emerges, but what is already known about this subject? Within the domestic abuse literature, there appears to be a weighty discord between Violence Against Women and Girls (V... Read More about Domestic abuse: Analysing women's use of violence.

Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce (2023)
Journal Article
Brennan, I., Couto, L., & O’Leary, N. (2023). Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce. Policing and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2023.2184817

Perhaps more than any other occupation, police witness the context and aftermath of domestic abuse but little is known about the police-victim overlap with regard to domestic abuse. This paper, based on survey responses from approximately one-quarter... Read More about Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce.

Police victims of domestic abuse: barriers to reporting victimisation (2023)
Journal Article
Couto, L., O’Leary, N., & Brennan, I. (2023). Police victims of domestic abuse: barriers to reporting victimisation. Policing and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2023.2250523

Policing is the institution responsible for protecting victims of domestic abuse and the institution to which victimisation is formally reported. The police workforce, therefore, are routinely exposed to domestic abuse victimisation, perpetration and... Read More about Police victims of domestic abuse: barriers to reporting victimisation.

Surveying Domestic Abuse Victims: The Inimical Lack of Common Ground
Book Chapter
Couto, L. (in press). Surveying Domestic Abuse Victims: The Inimical Lack of Common Ground. In L. Huey, & D. Buil-Gil (Eds.), The Crime Data Handbook (304-315). Bristol University Press

Owing to domestic abuse’s complexity, wherein a wide spectrum of behaviours can be subsumed, the subject has been studied in multiple fields (from health sciences to policing), and through different prisms (such as prevention, detection, and response... Read More about Surveying Domestic Abuse Victims: The Inimical Lack of Common Ground.