Fernandez, Annaliese
(2022)
Community-Based Accountability Processes Responding to Sexual and Domestic Violence, and the Mental Health Strategies that Sustain Them.
Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
Community Accountability (CA) processes are one community-based approach to responding to sexual and domestic violence without relying on the state. Emerging from Transformative Justice frameworks and Abolitionist movements, CA processes foreground healing, accountability, and autonomy for survivors of violence, those who have committed violence, and surrounding community members. Taking its starting place in from the theoretical and historical overlap between social movements for PIC abolition, feminist abolitionist approaches to violence, psychiatric deinstutionaliation, and grassroots mad liberation and disability justice movements, this study asks how people involved in CA responses to interpersonal sexual violence and domestic abuse respond to emotional and mental health needs that arise throughout the process. Through analysis of nine in-depth interviews, I identified three primary themes and four challenging areas described by participants. My analysis illuminates how the nine CA participants I interviewed drew on a multitude of individual and communal supports which resisted logics of criminalization and often resisted logics of medicalization by connecting mental health to specific experiences of trauma. Concurrently, the persistent and challenging role of sanism and ableism indicate further integration of disability theory/justice would strengthen both the CA responses to sexual violence as well as interrupt the logics underpinning penal and psychiatric confinement. The study suggests a need for additional as to how abolitionist feminist theories of violence and critical disability theories of carceral ableism and sanism are interacting to shape the interplay between community-based approaches to sexual violence, domestic abuse, and mental health crisis.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
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| Contribution | Contributors Name | Email | Pitt Username | ORCID  |
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| Committee Chair | Bloom, Joshua | UNSPECIFIED | UNSPECIFIED | UNSPECIFIED | | Committee Member | Murphy, Michael | UNSPECIFIED | UNSPECIFIED | UNSPECIFIED |
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| Date: |
30 April 2022 |
| Date Type: |
Acceptance |
| Defense Date: |
7 April 2022 |
| Approval Date: |
19 November 2024 |
| Submission Date: |
16 August 2022 |
| Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Number of Pages: |
49 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Sociology |
| Degree: |
MA - Master of Arts |
| Thesis Type: |
Master's Thesis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
N/A |
| Date Deposited: |
19 Nov 2024 16:38 |
| Last Modified: |
20 Nov 2024 17:02 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/42549 |
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