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Patrício, J.A. (2013). Intimate partner violence against women and leaving processes. Interpersonal Violence Interventions: Social and Cultural Perspectives.

J. M. Patrício,  "Intimate partner violence against women and leaving processes", in Interpersonal Violence Interventions: Social and Cultural Perspectives, Jyväskylä, 2013

@misc{patrício2013_1714979660913,
	author = "Patrício, J.A.",
	title = "Intimate partner violence against women and leaving processes",
	year = "2013",
	howpublished = "Outro"
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Intimate partner violence against women and leaving processes
T2  - Interpersonal Violence Interventions: Social and Cultural Perspectives
AU  - Patrício, J.A.
PY  - 2013
CY  - Jyväskylä
AB  - For the last decades, intimate partner violence has become recognized as a major social problem. In Portugal, domestic violence was criminalized in 2007 and a national victim’s support network is being implemented.
Researches highlight couple violence against women as a serious problem, putting at risk victim’s autonomy. Power and Control Wheel core is formed by tactics of control mostly related with psychological, emotional, economic or social violence (Pence & Paymar 1993). Control tactics are efficient and violent without physical or sexual violence (e.g. idem; Johnson 1995, 2008). Victimization processes – namely intimate terrorism situations – are a cause of victim’s isolation and dependency. Recent research focuses violent relationship breaking up processes’ (e.g. Enander & Holmberg 2008; Chang, Dado et al 2010).
This paper presents results of a qualitative research carried out at CIES, ISCTE-IUL about women victimized by intimate partners who have left abusive relationships. These women were supported by Associação Portuguesa de Mulheres contra a Violência (AMCV), an NGO. Research aims to acknowledge processes of victimization within couples and the legitimacy of practices of violence across women’s lives.
Methodologically, data was collected through five semi-structured interviews and the subsequent content analysis. Interviewees attend Hipátia, a group of survivors of domestic violence, promoted by AMCV. Mainly due to partner violence, informants requested AMCV’s support and had to live in a women’s shelter.
Women discourses emphasize the importance of specialized professionals as key to the recognition of violence by the victim, reconstruction and definition of a life project after leaving an abusive relationship.
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