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Papers by Alesha Durfee

Book Review: A Typology of Domestic Violence: Intimate Terrorism, Violent Resistance, and Situational Couple Violence

Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2009

Women’s experiences of grief upon leaving an abusive relationship

Child & Family Social Work, 2012

Journal of Marriage and Family, 2009

Mandatory arrest and intimate partner violence

Women, Poverty, and the Welfare State

Women’s Reproductive Coercion and Pregnancy Avoidance: Associations With Homicide Risk, Sexual Violence, and Religious Abuse

Violence Against Women, 2021

This survey study explores patterns of reproductive coercion (RC) and pregnancy avoidance (PA) am... more This survey study explores patterns of reproductive coercion (RC) and pregnancy avoidance (PA) among women recruited from domestic violence shelters in the southwestern United States ( N = 661). Two logistic regression models assessed the demographic, relationships, and violence characteristics associated with RC and PA. Younger, African American, and Hispanic women were more likely to experience RC. Homicide risk, sexual intimate partner violence (IPV), and religious abuse were associated with RC, and RC and homicide risk were associated with PA. We discuss implications of the associations between RC and PA and their links to religious abuse, sexual IPV, and homicide risk.

1. Entre Mujeres Platicamos: The Role of Informal Social Networks among Latina Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

Latinas in the Criminal Justice System

Latinas may be unlikely to utilize formal support networks intended to assist survivors of intima... more Latinas may be unlikely to utilize formal support networks intended to assist survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) for several reasons, including a distrust of police, immigration fears in a political climate that is especially hostile to Latinas, language barriers, and lower socioeconomic conditions. For Latina IPV survivors, informal social networks often prove to be critical components of their help-seeking strategies. This chapter examines the ways in which Latina IPV survivors use informal social networks—“linkpersons”, family/friends (including comadres and hermanas), neighbors, and coworkers—to achieve safety in their intimate relationships. In doing so, this chapter illustrates the negative impacts of isolation, immigration, immigration policy, and the abuser’s own social networks on the accessibility of social networks and help-seeking options for Latina survivors. The chapter concludes by outlining how formal resource providers could incorporate the knowledge share...

‘Not bullet proof’: The complex choice not to seek a civil protection order for intimate partner violence

International Review of Victimology

Protection orders (POs) are one legal system resource available to survivors of intimate partner ... more Protection orders (POs) are one legal system resource available to survivors of intimate partner violence. Many survivors choose not to obtain a PO, yet prior research has not examined the perspectives of these survivors. This study examined the open-ended survey responses ( n = 308) regarding the choice not to obtain a PO by survivors residing in emergency shelters in the United States. Content analysis indicated that many survivors made deliberate decisions to not seek safety through this venue. Survivors indicated that a PO may increase their partner’s violence, identified substantial barriers, evaluated a PO as unnecessary, preferred alternative strategies, were dealing with complex partner dynamics, and chose to protect their loved ones by not seeking a PO. Women with marginalized identities, in particular, indicated that there are multiple costs to seeking interventions within the legal system. Structural changes are needed within the legal system to facilitate access to justi...

Violence Among Female Sex Workers in Tijuana

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Review of A Typology of Domestic Violence: Intimate Terrorism, Violent Resistance, and Situational Couple Violence: Gender & Society

Review of The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entaglements of Race, Class and Policy Reform: CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries

Beyond the Rhetoric of Welfare Reform: An Analysis of Welfare Dependency

I am going to briefly discuss a few of the issues that I have seen in my practice of over eight y... more I am going to briefly discuss a few of the issues that I have seen in my practice of over eight years within a grassroots organization that focuses on serving GLBTQ domestic violence survivors. GLBT refers to those who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender. The "Q" refers to queer or gender queer individuals. The paradigm of men as perpetrators of violence and women as victims or survivors harms those who fall outside that paradigm. In terms of accessing police, one of the things that is pretty common in my case load is mutual arrests of same sex couples. Generally, the police have been ° This transcript has been edited from its original transcription for clarity.

The gendered paradox of victimization and agency in protection order filings

New Families, New Friends: A Conference on Phoenix Organizations Working to Help Latina Immigrants

Review of The Women in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru: Anthropological Quarterly

‘My wife has twisted the truth’: Accounts and the negotiation of identities in response to allegations of abuse

Reconsidering the Narrative Requirement for the Protection Order Petition

Victim Narratives, Legal Assistance, and Civil Protection Orders