The 'Careful Calculus' in its structural and policy context: what does it cost to leave an abusive relationship?

在结构和政策背景下的“谨慎计算”：离开虐待关系需要付出什么代价？

• 批准号: 1798088
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1798088
• 关键词: Careful; Calculus; its; structural; policy

Domestic abuse is a global phenomenon with far-reaching consequences for the individuals who experience it, their families and society more widely. The dynamics of domestic abuse are complex, incorporating a range of personal and societal factors which present barriers to exiting an abusive relationship. Nevertheless, women experiencing domestic abuse are often advised to leave their abusers as a means to ending the abuse. This 'logic' is reflected in societal consciousness as can be observed in the commonly posed question, 'why doesn't she just leave?'As has been long recognised among practitioners and academics, leaving an abusive partner is a process rather than a singular event and there are considerable barriers such as emotional, physical, and financial which often render leaving impossible. This research is concerned with the significant financial barriers women must negotiate when determining whether it is possible to leave their abuser and how this is achieved in circumstances where economic abuse is experienced as part of the domestic abuse. The decision-making process in which women must determine the costs ( financial and otherwise), advantages and disadvantages to leaving their abuser has been coined the 'careful calculus' (Hamby, 2013). Hamby's (2013) work is one in a paucity of literature investigating the cost of leaving for domestic abuse survivors. However, her work focuses solely on the US context and does not address the structural and political context within which leaving occurs. The impact policy decisions can have on survivor's abilities to leave abuse is well recognised (Burman and Chantler, 2005) however, an in-depth examination of women's personal 'calculations' rooted in a gendered and structural understanding of contemporary policy contexts is not available. This is the gap this research aims to address.

家庭虐待是一种全球现象，对遭受虐待的个人、其家庭和更广泛的社会具有深远的影响。家庭虐待的动态是复杂的，包含了一系列个人和社会因素，这些因素阻碍了摆脱虐待关系。然而，遭受家庭虐待的妇女往往被建议离开施虐者，作为结束虐待的一种手段。这种“逻辑”反映在社会意识中，正如人们通常提出的问题所观察到的那样，“她为什么不离开呢？”“正如从业者和学者长期以来所认识到的那样，离开虐待伴侣是一个过程，而不是一个单一的事件，并且存在相当大的障碍，如情感，身体和经济，这往往使离开成为不可能。这项研究关注的是妇女在决定是否有可能离开施虐者时必须谈判的重大经济障碍，以及在经济虐待作为家庭虐待的一部分经历的情况下如何实现这一点。妇女必须确定离开施虐者的成本（经济和其他方面）、利弊的决策过程被称为“仔细计算”（Hamby，2013年）。Hamby（2013）的工作是调查家庭虐待幸存者离开成本的文献中的一个。然而，她的工作只集中在美国的背景下，并没有解决结构和政治背景下，离开发生。政策决定可能对幸存者摆脱虐待的能力产生影响，这一点得到了广泛认可（Burman和Chantler，2005年），但是，对妇女基于对当代政策背景的性别和结构性理解的个人“算计”的深入研究还没有。这就是本研究要解决的差距。