Technology and Domestic and Family Violence

Bridget Harris is an Associate Professor/Reader of Criminology and Deputy Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre at Monash University (Victoria, Australia) and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. Bridget conducts research on domestic and family violence, violence against women, the use of technology to enact and respond to harm, digital coercive control, and violence against women in rural areas.Delanie Woodlock has been working in domestic violence and sexual assault for over 15 years, providing support to victim-survivors, as well as conducting internationally recognised research in both the community and academia. She is a research fellow at Monash University in the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation. Her research has focused on violence against women with disabilities, the impact of abuse on women’s trauma, the use of technology in domestic violence, child sexual abuse material and violence against women in rural and regional Australia.

• PART 1: Conceptualising, categorising, and measuring harm 1. Weaponising technology in intimate relationships: An introduction and overviewBridget Harris and Delanie Woodlock2. Characteristics of technology- facilitated domestic violenceJordana N. Navarro and Shelly Clevenger3. Technology- facilitated abuse: The need for Indigenous-led research and response Bronwyn Carlson and Madi Day4. Best- practice principles for measurement of technology-facilitated coercive control Molly DragiewiczPART 2 Specific technologies and forms of harm5. Cyberstalking in the context of intimate relationships:Who’s monitoring the monitors?Brianna O’Shea, Jeremy Prichard, and Helen Cockburn6. Technology- facilitated abuse and the internet of things (IoT): The implication of the smart, internet- connected devices on domestic violence and abuseLeonie Maria Tanczer7. The new Panopticon: Women’s experiences of mobile phone- mediated coercive control within abusive relationshipsTirion Havard and Michelle LefevrePART 3 Victimisation of cohorts and communities8. Digital abuse of women with disabilitiesDelanie Woodlock and Bridget Harris9. The co- option of children in relation to intimate partner violence and the use of technologyHeather Douglas10. Technology- facilitated domestic violence: Some queer considerationsBianca Fileborn and Matthew Ball11. Remote-control: Regional, rural, and remote women’s experiences of digital coercive control Bridget Harris and Delanie WoodlockPART 4 Harnessing technology12. Domestic violence disclosure schemes: The opportunities and limits of technology and information sharingSandra Walklate and Kate Fitz- Gibbon13. Technological resources for people experiencing and using violence in their intimate relationships: Moving beyond safety and referralLaura Tarzia and Kelsey Hegarty14. How Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) uses technology to respond to online gender- based violenceSandra Aceng15. Emergent best practices in trauma-informed design from Chayn’s interventions with and for survivors of technology abuseHera Hussain16. Spaceless violence: Concluding thoughts andfuture stepsBridget Harris and Delanie Woodlock