Decentralizing Domestic Violence

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Inspired by Joshua Price’s Structural Violence: Hidden Brutality in the Lives of Women, this discussion will begin from the premise that domestic violence (DV) is specific societal harm collocated within the larger intersectional array of gender-based violence (GBV) and structural violence. We will invite participants to explore and share how they incorporate an intersectional social model of GBV into their work with survivors of domestic violence, drawing out examples of GBV work outside of a traditional domestic violence/protection order practice. Acknowledging and resisting the context of a legal system that uses incarceration as a means of racial domination, we will ask participants to engage in specific sharing around non-carceral practices that address the broad causes and consequences of GBV and how they grapple with structural violence in their clinical practice and teaching. This discussion will emphasize how robust non-siloed/decentralized approaches to DV benefit survivors, communities, and students, very few of whom will go on to practice traditional DV law.