Citation

Bonomi AE, Martin D. J. Fam. Violence 2018; 33(2): 99-102.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10896-017-9919-2

PMID

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Abstract

For many domestic violence victims, witness tampering continues throughout an abuser's detention while awaiting court appearance and sentencing, often via phone calls made from jail. A common question we are asked when leading an investigation and providing expert testimony is how abusers involve their children (directly or indirectly) during jail calls. In this commentary, we use three case examples to illustrate how abusers involve their children (directly or indirectly) to further manipulate and tamper with their victim. As the three case examples illustrate, domestic abusers tend to use similar strategies with children during the jail calls as they do with their primary victim (e.g., minimizing the abuse, calling up images of a broken family due to impending charges and sentencing), and tend to triangulate their children against the victim.

Language: en

Keywords

Children; Domestic violence; Jail; Manipulation; Phone calls; Witness tampering