
Delanie WoodlockUNSW Sydney | UNSW
Delanie Woodlock
Bachelor of Arts, Honours (Women's Studies), PhD (Sociology) Master of Social Work.
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We focus on an emerging trend in the context of domestic violence—the use of technology to facilitate stalking and other forms of abuse. Surveys with 152 domestic violence advocates and 46 victims show that technology—including phones, tablets, computers, and social networking websites—is commonly used in intimate partner stalking. Technology was u...
This article describes domestic violence as a key context of online misogyny, foregrounding the role of digital media in mediating, coordinating, and regulating it; and proposing an agenda for future research. Scholars and anti-violence advocates have documented the ways digital media exacerbate existing patterns of gendered violence and introduce...
This paper examines the use of digital technologies by domestic violence perpetrators, which we believe constitutes ‘digital coercive control’. We draw on two Australian research projects and emerging research to provide definitional, conceptual and theoretical frames for harmful and invasive behaviours enacted through technology. Additionally, we...
This study extends the emerging research on technology-facilitated coercive control (TFCC) to gather deeply contextualised qualitative evidence from survivors. We conducted interviews with domestic violence survivors in Queensland and New South Wales who had experienced technology facilitated abuse, supplementing the interviews via focus groups wit...
Technology-facilitated domestic violence is an emerging issue for social workers and other service providers. The concept of Digital Coercive Control (DCC) is introduced to highlight the particular nature and impacts of technology-facilitated abuse in the context of domestic violence. While practitioners have become more adept at working with women...
Although it originated within online pro-pedophile groups, the term “minor attracted person” (MAPs) has been adopted by some academic researchers as a neutral and non-stigmatizing alternative to the term “pedophile.” The transferral of this term from pedophile advocates to academic scholarship has been highly controversial. Claims that the use of t...
Police body-worn camera (BWC) technologies—affixed to a vest, sunglasses or cap—are deployed by all Australian police agencies, including in frontline responses to domestic and family violence (DFV). This paper presents the findings from the first Australian study focused on how women DFV victim-survivors view and experience BWCs in police call-out...
This article examines the experiences of female partners and relatives of child sexual abuse material offenders and the (il)legibility of their experiences within prevailing theoretical frameworks and policy responses to violence against women. Drawing on survey and interview data with clients of a specialist support agency, we situate the lack of...
This article draws on interviews with 20 Australian women subjected to technology-facilitated coercive control (TFCC), foregrounding their accounts of grief and institutional betrayal. Findings show that while the harms of TFCC were significant, survivors’ experiences were often minimized and dismissed by justice institutions. Women experienced gri...
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This article investigates survivors’ experiences participating in research interviews about technology-facilitated domestic violence. University research ethics committees often assume that participating in research on violence and abuse is distressing for survivors. Scholars have called for research testing this assumption. This article co...
Many child sexual abuse material (CSAM) offenders have non-offending partners and children who are impacted by their CSAM use. However, the specific dynamics of CSAM offending within a relationship or family context have been overlooked in forensic research, while scholarship on domestic violence and coercive control has not focused on CSAM offendi...
In Australia, domestic and family violence (DFV) is a major health and human rights issue. Technology is increasingly being recognised as an important tool to assist victims/survivors of DFV in accessing legal services, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Technology has been rapidly rolled out to assist victims/survivors obtain legal advice an...
The use of technology to abuse and control women is an emerging area of domestic violence. However, little is known about how women with disabilities, particularly women with intellectual and cognitive experience this abuse. To address this gap, we conducted interviews and focus groups with six women with intellectual or cognitive disabilities who...
Reports of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on the internet are rapidly increasing and the number of people accessing it is substantial. Many of these men have partners or families who are impacted by their CSAM use. These families experience negative mental health and social outcomes as a result. Despite this, there are limited services that pro...
There is growing commitment to trauma-informed practice and increased recognition of risks associated with this work. However, the benefits of working with trauma-affected clients are under-studied. Drawing on interviews with sixty-three welfare, health and legal professionals in Australia, we consider the salutogenic dynamics of work with women wi...
The abuse of technology by perpetrators of domestic violence is ‘spaceless’; however, in this article, we argue that experiences of and responses to digital coercive control are shaped by both the place (geographic location) and space (practical and ideological features of a location) that a victim/survivor and criminal justice agency occupy. We ex...
Technology is increasingly used by perpetrators of domestic violence to control, coerce, abuse, harass and stalk victim–survivors. Though ‘spaceless’—not bound by geography—there are particular ways that place and space shape the impacts of and risks associated with this violence. This paper examines the impact of technology-facilitated violence on...
Organised abuse, in which multiple adults sexually abuse multiple children, has an important role to play in the production of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) but has been relegated to the margins of criminological concern. This paper presents the findings of an international survey of 74 adults who described childhood victimisation in CSAM and...
This is the first article to analyze children’s involvement in technology-facilitated coercive control in Australia. The primary research question was ‘‘How do mothers describe their children’s involvement in technology-facilitated coercive control?”. This article is based on incidental findings from a larger study on Australian women’s experiences...
This report details an evaluation of PartnerSPEAK, a Victorian organisation that supports the non-offending partners, family and friends of CSAM offenders. PartnerSPEAK utilises a peer support model to provide support through the operation of the Peerline phone service, webchat, as well as a moderated online forum. The evaluation was conducted by a...
Domestic violence is a pervasive social problem in Australia. Digital media are increasingly integral to its dynamics. Technology-facilitated coercive control (TFCC) is a form of gender-based violence. This article examines domestic violence survivors’ experiences with TFCC, drawing on interviews with 20 Australian women. Study results enhance unde...
About this report: "This is a summary of a big report. Summary means that we only talk about the most important things from the big report. Queensland University of Technology wrote a report for eSafety. It is about how technology can be used to hurt women with intellectual disability. Technology means things like computers, laptops, tablets or mob...
This research explores experiences of technology-facilitated abuse among women living with intellectual or cognitive disability.
The findings are based on interviews with women with intellectual or cognitive disability and frontline workers who provide support services.
This research was commissioned to address major gaps in the evidence about te...
This report explores the 2020 findings of a national Australian survey with 442 frontline domestic violence practitioners about the use of technology by perpetrators.
Criminologists have always been interested in crimes that involve physical violence. However, like other forms of human behavior, the meaning of violence is largely context-dependent and changes over time (DeKeseredy & Dragiewicz, 2009; Dragiewicz & Lindgren, 2009; Myhill, 2017). For example, in the United States, men’s violence against their wives...
Researchers have accumulated much social scientific knowledge about the scope, distribution, causes, and outcomes of
the physical and sexual abuse of female students in North American institutions of higher learning. However, surveys of
technology-facilitated stalking and the dissemination of unwanted sexual messages/images in college campus commun...
Since the mid 1980s, North American researchers have accumulated much social scientific knowledge about the extent, distribution, sources, and consequences of physical and sexual violence against college women. However, surveys of technology-facilitated stalking and image-based sexual abuse on college campuses are in short supply. Further, the few...
Nonhuman Animal rights activists are sometimes dismissed as ‘crazy’ or irrational by countermovements seeking to protect status quo social structures. Social movements themselves often utilize disability narratives in their claims-making as well. In this article, we argue that Nonhuman Animal exploitation and Nonhuman Animal rights activism are som...
SmartSafe Technology-facilitated stalking: findings and resources from the SmartSafe project