By Jennifer Dunn
This booklet is a wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and delicate exam of the lived event of intimate stalking victimization. It explores the way it feels and what it skill to be stalked via a former intimate and the way this example creates dilemmas for sufferers and their advocates. what's it prefer to try and develop into a "victim" within the eyes of the legislations, after which to stay one, whilst nearly something a girl does to control the violent feelings of an ex-husband or ex-boyfriend can backfire and discredit her claims? the writer attracts upon a vast array of wealthy info, together with a survey of faculty ladies, court testimony, prosecutors' case records, interviews with sufferers, and observations in a prosecutor's workplace and a stalking survivors' help crew, to demonstrate the problems girls face as they paintings to deal with danger-and to barter the unsafe terrain of felony systems-simultaneously. For a few sufferers of stalking, Dr. Dunn exhibits, prosecution procedures are extra demanding than the occasions that introduced them to hunt criminal aid, and her research of the old, cultural, and gendered frameworks within which stalking victimization and prosecution occur money owed for the extra trauma. Definitions of occasions and identities are contested instead of given, in those arenas the place lives and self-concepts leisure within the stability. The ways that we socially build and confer which means upon intimate violence and its sufferers profoundly form what occurs to boring ladies dealing with impressive conditions. relationship catastrophe illuminates what we will be able to study from their adventure, no matter if we're operating in those arenas or theorizing approximately how they do, and infrequently don't, paintings. will probably be precious in sociology and criminology classes, and in addition in women's experiences and counseling classes.
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This means, as Eliza explained to me early on, that victims are told that they will be working as a team with advocates and prosecutors to prosecute the case, and they have to agree to waive the confidentiality that other kinds of client / therapist relationships have. In the time that I spent in the district attorney’s office, the closest relationships I established were with the victim advocates Eliza Nash and Donna D’amato. In the course of time, I became privy to ”back-stage”conversations (Goffman 1959) on many occasions, during which I learned a great deal about tensions accruing to the victim advocate role.
On a few occasions I accompanied them to court or attended Valley City Survivors of Stalking meetings with them. In the course of observing, participating, interviewing, transcribing tapes of the interviews, and reviewing the case files, I found that victims reported a wide range of behaviors directed toward them by former husbands, former boyfriends, and other intimates, seemingly limited only by the imagination of the stalker. ” I will examine each of these in turn. These are complexities to which we need attend as we proceed.
About half the time, the defendant is already on probation for some other offense, and domestic violence victims are often reluctant to testify. During this time period, according to DVU data, only 10 of the 861 defendants were charged with stalking at intake, and 5 of them were c o n ~ i c t e d . As Amanda Konradi puts it: [Alrrests and charging decisions made by police and prosecutors often reflect :heir efforts to conserve the resources of their respective departments. They seek to weed out unwinnable cases before time and effort is invested in making arrests, charging, and follow-up investigation.