 Gender, risk assessment and coercive control: Contradictions in terms?Charlotte Barlow and Sandra Walklate The British Journal of Criminology, 2021, vol. 61, issue 4, 887-904 Abstract: In December 2015, the criminal offence of coercive control was introduced in England and Wales. Whilst, in this legislation, this concept is presumed to be gender-neutral, there is widespread agreement that coercive control is gendered. Using empirical data gathered in one police force area in the South of England, this paper offers an exploration of the feasibility of the extent to which existing risk assessment practices and understandings of risk embedded within them, can incorporate the phenomenon of coercive control. The findings highlight concerns about gender-blind, incident-led (rather than process-led) approaches to assessing risk when these approaches are set against victim/survivor concerns. These concerns highlight the inherent problems embedded in the contemporary gender-blind embrace of the concept of risk as assumed in practices of risk assessment. Keywords: gender; risk; risk assessment; coercive control; time (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:crimin:v:61:y:2021:i:4:p:887-904. Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article The British Journal of Criminology is currently edited by Eamonn Carrabine More articles in The British Journal of Criminology from Centre for Crime and Justice Studies Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK. |
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