David Gadd - Young Men and Domestic Abuse

Surveys reveal that domestic abuse is more commonplace among teenagers and young adults than older populations, yet surprisingly little is written about young mens involvement in it. Reporting on a three-year study based in the UK, this book explores young mens involvement in domestic abuse, whether as victims, perpetrators, or witnesses to violent behaviors between adults. Original survey data, focus group material, and in-depth biographical interviews are used to make the case for a more thoroughgoing engagement with the meanings young men come to attribute to violent behaviour, include the tendency among many to configure violence within families as fights that call for acts of male heroism. The book also highlights the dearth of services interventions for young men prone to domestic abuse, and the challenges of developing responsive practice in this area. Each section of the book highlights further online resources that those looking to conduct research in this area or apply its insights in practice can draw upon.

1Family Life and Youth Offending

Home is Where the Hurt is

Raymond Arthur

2Chinas Death Penalty

History, Law, and Contemporary Practices

Hong Lu and Terance D. Miethe

3The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour

Amoral Panics

Stuart Waiton

4Hooked

Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the United States

Susan C. Boyd

5The Violence of Incarceration

Edited by Phil Scraton and Jude McCulloch

6Violence, Prejudice and Sexuality

Stephen Tomsen

7Biology and Criminology

The Biosocial Synthesis

Anthony Walsh

8Global Gambling

Cultural Perspectives on Gambling Organizations

Edited by Sytze F. Kingma

9Social Class and Crime

A Biosocial Approach

Anthony Walsh

10Security and Everyday Life

Edited by Vida Bajc and Willem de Lint

11Women and Heroin Addiction in Chinas Changing Society

Huan Gao

12Colonial Discourse and Gender in U.S. Criminal Courts

Cultural Defenses and Prosecutions

Caroline Braunmhl

13European Developments in Corporate Criminal Liability

Edited by James Gobert and Ana-Maria Pascal

14The Myth of Moral Panics

Sex, Snuff, and Satan

Bill Thompson and Andy Williams

15Drugs and Popular Culture in the Age of New Media

Paul Manning

16Criminal Justice in International Society

Edited by Willem de Lint, Marinella Marmo, and Nerida Chazal

17American Smuggling as White Collar Crime

Lawrence Karson

18Young Men and Domestic Abuse

David Gadd, Claire L. Fox, Mary-Louise Corr, Steph Alger and Ian Butler

David Gadd, Claire L. Fox, Mary-Louise Corr, Steph Alger and Ian Butler

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gadd, David, 1975
Young men and domestic abuse / by David Gadd, Claire L. Fox, Mary-Louise Corr, Steph Alger and Ian Butler.
pages cm. (Routledge advances in criminology ; 18)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Family violenceGreat Britain.2.Abusive menGreat Britain.3.Abused womenGreat Britain.4.Young menGreat Britain.5.Violence in menGreat Britain.I.Title.
HV6626.23.G7G33 2015
362.82'920941dc232015007726

ISBN: 978-0-415-72211-7 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-85845-6 (ebk)

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The research reported in this book was informed by four funded research awards: The ESRC funded From Boys to Men (RES-062232678) project, an ESRC Accelerated Impact award, the European Commission DAPHNE III REaDAPt Project (DAPHNE-JUST/2009/DAP3/AG/098830-CE-0391367/0054), and an ESRC linked PhD Studentship. It is therefore the product of many conversations with researchers, interviewees, practitioners, journalists, and policymakers. Many people facilitated the access upon which this research relied, but the following are most worthy of a mention: Stephen Giles, Anne Marie Harris, Rachel Horan, Kate Howard, Nicola MacKinnon, Elaine Pollard, Angela Staplehurst, Linda Thomas, and Wendy Wainwright. Likewise, many people have contributed ideas and questions that have helped us refine the books central ideas. These include: Marcus Beale, Floretta Boonzaier, Joanna Bragg, Rose Broad, Louise Cherrington, Mark Coulter, Thangam Debonnaire, Holly Dustin, Hilary Fisher, Carlene Firmin, Marianne Hester, Margareta Hydn, Nancy Lombard, Thienhuong Nguyen, Christian Papaleontiou, Samantha Redmond, Robin Robinson, Julius Sim, Mark Tarrant, and Allan Wade. We are grateful also to Becky Hale, Lucy James, and Hayley Gilman who provided much needed support with the data gathering demands of a quasi-experimental study. Our greatest debt, however, is to the many young people who gave up their time to answer our questions and speak openly about difficult, painful, and sometimes shameful experiences. Their anonymity is preserved in the research, but we are truly grateful for their participation. We are also grateful to the schools and teachers who facilitated access to the schoolchildren who took part in the project. Needless to say, the authors remain responsible for the data and argument presented in this book, including any inaccuracies, omissions, and limitations.

We are grateful both to the Home Office for allowing us to reproduce the image from the This Is Abuse campaign featured in are also reported elsewhere in journals published by Routledge (Fox, Corr, Gadd, & Butler, 2014; Fox, Hale, & Gadd, 2014), Wiley (Fox, Corr, Gadd, & Sim, 2014) and Sage (Fox, Gadd, & Sim, in press).