1st Edition
Learning from Victims’ Family Narratives The Impact of Offline and Online Harm in Cases of Intimate Partner Homicide
1 Introduction 2.Current Context 3. Offline Harm: Existing Risk Factors in the Web of Abuse 4. Online Harm: Emerging Risk Factors in the Web of Abuse 5. Overspill of Abuse 6. Concluding Thoughts
Biography
Morag C. Kennedy is Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, focusing on intimate partner abuse and homicide involving digital harm. This work primarily considers co-victim perspectives. Key publications include the book chapters "Digital Coercive Control: A Male Perspective" (2022) and "'They Didn’t Want to Upset the Client’: Stalking in Hands-On Occupations" (2023), and the book Victimisation in the Digital Age: An Online/Offline Continuum Approach (Routledge, 2024). Her research seeks to empower vulnerable and marginalised people through the lens of feminism.
"Many publications traditionally cover coercive control and stalking from a victim’s perspective and the impact that it has. For the first time, we have a publication that looks at the impact of harm on co-victims. More often than not, once the legal process has been concluded, co-victims resulting from intimate partner homicide are often forgotten but the harm continues potentially forever.
The author has identified this group and explains in simple terms the range of existing risk factors in the web of abuse for both offline and online harms. Kennedy uses real case studies to adequately demonstrate some of these risk factors, the online-offline continuum of harm and the profound effect that these have on the lives of co-victims.
As a co-victim, this publication has provided meaning behind what has been experienced and continues to be experienced and sets out some of the future risks that we need to be aware of. The next chapter is how this will manifest when the perpetrator is released, will risk factors change in the web of abuse? The dust never settles when you are a co-victim.
A must read for all co-victims and those interested in coercive control and stalking and the impact that these have."
Nick Gazzard OBE, A Co-victim.
