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decisions that favor abusive coercive controllers and
harm adult and child victims (Goldstein, 2014 Hunter,
Burton &Trinder, 2020 Meier &Dickson, 2017 Stark,
2023).
Professionals, the last Story theme, includes the
sub-themes Complicity &Arrogance (mentioned
previously), Coercive Control as Invisible, and
Systemic CC Lens Needed. P12 described the dangers
as an example of Complicity &Arrogance: “They said it
didn’t happen in their school...He’s a predator in other
schools, but...now he’s working at a public school.” P6
explains their personal frustrations within the same
subtheme:
There’s this victim-blaming and like,...‘snap out
of it’ sort of thing...I’m in quicksand, and you’re
telling me to snap out of it. I cannot. I literally
cannot...If someone is not being affected by
it [coercive control] or is even profiting from
it, then yeah, [they] don’t have any interest in
seeing the other way ‘round.
Quantitative Analysis of Video Evaluations
Analysis was conducted on the data collected from
the 59 participants who completed the study, and the
breakdown by participant group is shown in Table 6
below.
decisions that favor abusive coercive controllers and
harm adult and child victims (Goldstein, 2014 Hunter,
Burton &Trinder, 2020 Meier &Dickson, 2017 Stark,
2023).
Professionals, the last Story theme, includes the
sub-themes Complicity &Arrogance (mentioned
previously), Coercive Control as Invisible, and
Systemic CC Lens Needed. P12 described the dangers
as an example of Complicity &Arrogance: “They said it
didn’t happen in their school...He’s a predator in other
schools, but...now he’s working at a public school.” P6
explains their personal frustrations within the same
subtheme:
There’s this victim-blaming and like,...‘snap out
of it’ sort of thing...I’m in quicksand, and you’re
telling me to snap out of it. I cannot. I literally
cannot...If someone is not being affected by
it [coercive control] or is even profiting from
it, then yeah, [they] don’t have any interest in
seeing the other way ‘round.
Quantitative Analysis of Video Evaluations
Analysis was conducted on the data collected from
the 59 participants who completed the study, and the
breakdown by participant group is shown in Table 6
below.
