@article{4695cf826c13428bb9c7ea72cdbf7611,
title = "Survivor-Defined Advocacy in the Civil Protection Order Process",
abstract = "This study examines how lay legal advocates meet petitioners{\textquoteright} extralegal and legal needs during the protection order process using survivor-defined advocacy. We conducted interviews with 20 lay legal advocates and identified four ways in which advocates provided services consistent with survivor-defined advocacy, including court accompaniment, safety planning, meeting petitioners{\textquoteright} extralegal needs, and centering the survivor as the decision-maker. We discuss our results in light of previous research on survivor-defined advocacy and describe the implications in the context of current domestic violence law and policy, including the need to enhance lay legal advocates{\textquoteright} ability to provide survivor-defined approaches in their services.",
keywords = "advocacy, courts, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, protection orders, victim services",
author = "John Costello and Alesha Durfee",
note = "Funding Information: Costello John 1 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8518-2453 Durfee Alesha 1 1 Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Alesha Durfee, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, Wilson Hall, 240 Orange Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA. Email: Alesha.Durfee@asu.edu 12 2019 1557085119891250 {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2019 2019 SAGE Publications This study examines how lay legal advocates meet petitioners{\textquoteright} extralegal and legal needs during the protection order process using survivor-defined advocacy. We conducted interviews with 20 lay legal advocates and identified four ways in which advocates provided services consistent with survivor-defined advocacy, including court accompaniment, safety planning, meeting petitioners{\textquoteright} extralegal needs, and centering the survivor as the decision-maker. We discuss our results in light of previous research on survivor-defined advocacy and describe the implications in the context of current domestic violence law and policy, including the need to enhance lay legal advocates{\textquoteright} ability to provide survivor-defined approaches in their services. courts domestic violence intimate partner violence victim services advocacy protection orders national institute of justice https://doi.org/10.13039/100005289 2015-IJ-CX-0013 edited-state corrected-proof typesetter ts1 Declaration of Conflicting Interests The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Funding The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This project was supported by Award No. 2015-IJ-CX-0013, awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Justice. ORCID iD Alesha Durfee https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8518-2453 Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2019. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2020",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/1557085119891250",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "15",
pages = "299--318",
journal = "Feminist Criminology",
issn = "1557-0851",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Ltd",
number = "3",
}