Nyamagaga Gondwe (Wisconsin; Google Scholar) presents Emergency Exit: The Life-Saving Potential of Direct Public Monetary Help to Survivors of Intimate Accomplice Violence at UC-San Francisco at the moment as a part of its Tax Coverage Colloquium hosted by Manoj Viswanathan: 

Intimate accomplice violence (IPV) is considered primarily as a category of felony conduct in federal coverage. However the felony justice system operates via a mannequin of particular person accountability, which implies that options to IPV in American communities concentrate on schooling (proactive) and incarceration (reactive) as interventions.

Nonetheless, public well being research on IPV recommend that the sorts of bodily violence that end in arrest shouldn’t be seen because the central concern in addressing IPV. As an alternative, these research recommend that bodily violence needs to be regarded as a software for one accomplice in a relationship to exert coercive energy and management over the opposite accomplice. Put one other manner, bodily violence is only one of a number of instruments an abuser will use to manage their accomplice. Different instruments embrace emotional abuse, psychological abuse, and financial abuse.