Domestic Abuse Proceedings In Family Courts: Overlap And Pathways In Private And Public Family Justice

家庭法院的家庭暴力诉讼：私人和公共家庭司法的重叠和途径

基本信息

批准号：
ES/X011399/1
负责人：
Ludivine Garside
金额：
$ 15.22万
依托单位：
University of Bristol
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2023 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX011399%2F1
关键词：
Domestic Abuse Proceedings Family Courts

项目摘要

Domestic abuse proceedings in family courts are not studied at national level in England and Wales beyond basic national statistics. Until recently, research access to national family justice data has been restricted to incomplete sets of domestic abuse proceedings, with complex data sharing agreements to negotiate. The research phase of the Fellowship will combine (1) more easily accessed data on applications to family courts, (2) novel family court data, (3) new linkages between those family justice datasets and (4) additional linkages to Welsh demographics and children's social care data, to explore experiences of the family justice system for people who make or face allegations of domestic abuse in family courts, and associated persons including children.Social workers identify concerns about violent forms of domestic abuse towards a parent in a third of children referrals assessments. Domestic abuse is a common experience among birth mothers whose children become subject to care proceedings, and features in over half of private child arrangement cases. Two types of protective measures were available in family courts throughout the proposed period of analysis, 2011 to early 2021, to prohibit molestation and to exclude or regulate presence in the family home. Breach of the former can be a criminal offence, although breach of the latter cannot. Both types of measures can be applied for at the same time, and in emergency situations the court can dispense with giving notice of the proceedings to the alleged abuser. Understanding where domestic abuse proceedings overlap with other types of private and public proceedings, and how families navigate them is important to ensure timely decisions that meet people's needs, to avoid vexatious litigation and to encourage applications where chilling effects may arise.At present, there is a recognition that policymakers need knowledge gaps to be filled about progression through the family justice system and domestic abuse proceedings. The Ministry of Justice has a Pathways and Outcomes cross-cutting research theme, and additional interests in understanding case progression, case timeliness, drivers of demand, and how to meet the needs of domestic abuse victims with legal issues to resolve in family and criminal courts. Expertise is being sought such as that of the panel who provided evidence on domestic abuse allegations in private law children proceedings in the influential Harm Panel Report (2020) or the new office of Domestic Abuse Commissioner. The Fellowship aims to add context about how people use domestic abuse proceedings as they move through the family justice system, addressing four main objectives:1. Increase knowledge around domestic abuse proceedings in family courts: Describe trends about applications for domestic abuse injunctions and their outcomes and address gaps from available national statistics. 2. Identify the overlap between domestic abuse proceedings and other proceedings in family courts: Compare the timing of domestic abuse cases relative to other types of cases in private public family law, and compare the family groups across domestic abuse cases. Explore the challenges and limitations of two additional linkages to demographics and children's social care data in Wales only, and the research value of the linkages for identifying the child population who lives with a parent involved in domestic abuse proceedings in Wales. 3. Explore the main pathways entering and moving through the family justice system for individuals who experience domestic abuse proceedings. Methods to be considered will include sequence analysis, event history and survival analysis. The factors associated with joining a pathway and those associated with re-shaping pathways will be explored using logistic regression or regression analysis.4. Improve signposting by professionals to online informal support available to people in domestic abuse proceedings.

除了基本的国家统计数据外，英格兰和威尔士的国家层面并未对家庭法庭的家庭虐待诉讼进行研究。直到最近，对国家家庭司法数据的研究访问还仅限于不完整的家庭虐待诉讼，需要谈判复杂的数据共享协议。该奖学金的研究阶段将结合（1）更容易获取的有关家庭法庭申请的数据，（2）新颖的家庭法庭数据，（3）这些家庭司法数据集之间的新联系以及（4）与威尔士人口统计和儿童的其他联系社会关怀数据，为在家庭法庭提出或面临家庭暴力指控的人以及包括儿童在内的相关人员探索家庭司法系统的经验。社会工作者发现三分之一的儿童对针对父母的暴力形式家庭暴力表示担忧转介评估。家庭虐待是孩子接受照料程序的生母的常见经历，并且在超过一半的私人儿童安排案件中出现。在拟议的分析期间（2011 年至 2021 年初），家庭法庭采取了两种类型的保护措施，以禁止骚扰并排除或规范在家庭中的存在。违反前者可能构成刑事犯罪，但违反后者则不能。两种措施可以同时适用，并且在紧急情况下，法院可以免除向被指控的施虐者发出诉讼通知。了解家庭虐待诉讼程序与其他类型的私人和公共诉讼程序的重叠之处，以及家庭如何应对这些程序，对于确保及时做出满足人们需求的决定、避免无理取闹的诉讼并鼓励可能产生寒蝉效应的申请非常重要。认识到政策制定者需要填补有关家庭司法系统和家庭虐待诉讼进展的知识空白。司法部有一个跨领域的研究主题，以及了解案件进展、案件及时性、需求驱动因素以及如何满足家庭暴力受害者的需求以及需要在家庭和刑事法庭解决的法律问题等方面的额外兴趣。正在寻求专业知识，例如在有影响力的伤害小组报告（2020）中为私法儿童诉讼中的家庭虐待指控提供证据的专家组或新的家庭虐待专员办公室。该奖学金旨在增加人们在家庭司法系统中如何使用家庭虐待诉讼的背景，实现四个主要目标：1。增加有关家庭法庭家庭暴力诉讼的知识：描述家庭暴力禁令申请的趋势及其结果，并解决现有国家统计数据的差距。 2. 确定家庭暴力诉讼程序与家庭法院其他程序之间的重叠：比较家庭暴力案件相对于私人公共家庭法中其他类型案件的时间安排，并比较家庭暴力案件中的家庭群体。探讨仅在威尔士与人口统计和儿童社会关怀数据建立两个额外联系的挑战和局限性，以及这些联系对于识别威尔士与参与家庭虐待诉讼的父母同住的儿童人口的研究价值。 3. 探索经历家庭虐待诉讼的个人进入和通过家庭司法系统的主要途径。需要考虑的方法包括序列分析、事件历史和生存分析。将使用逻辑回归或回归分析来探讨与加入路径相关的因素以及与重塑路径相关的因素。4．改善专业人员为家庭暴力诉讼中的人们提供在线非正式支持的路标。