Crystal Dials
Source 1:
Challenges in Risk Assessment with Rural Domestic Violence Victims: Implications for Practice
By: Youngson, Nicole; Saxton, Michael; Jaffe, Peter G.; Chiodo, Deborah; Dawson, Myrna;
Straatman, Anna-Lee. Journal of Family Violence. Jul2021, Vol. 36 Issue 5, p537-550. 14p. 2
Diagrams, 2 Charts. DOI: 10.1007/s10896-021-00248-7.
This article is explaining the risk factors and challenges in assessing risk for women
experiencing domestic violence that live in rural locations. It also states and explains practices
that providers could utilize when working with women experiencing domestic violence. It
highlights the added barriers and complexities in assessing risk for the population of women
living in the rural population.
This article focused on the geographic isolation such as the lack of transportation, and the lack of
community resources. The cultural factors such as the accepted and more available use of
firearms, poverty levels, and no privacy/anonymity. It analyzes several challenges that the
service providers face at the systematic level such as the lack of agreement between services,
organization barriers such as lack of collaboration and risk assessment being underutilized or not
valued. The articles closes by offering different practices that could be utilized to prevent and
manage the risk factors.
This article is considered a credible source. I say that because I used the C.R.A.P.P.O. test to
decide if this article could be used, it scored a score well over thirty five. It was found using the
schools database and it was located in the Journal of Family Violence. The resources it used
were all cited and listed.
It is in agreement with my argument that women living in rural areas do not have the same
resources available to them as urban population, such as the housing for the victims. In the article
she stated, “The economic disparity is big…Access to having an income that would adequately
pay for the housing and stuff for kids is limited, The inability to find housing is a huge issue
around domestic violence because there are not affordable places to live, so women are returning
to the situation because there is nowhere else to go.”
Source 2:
Women Forgotten: Difficulties Faced by Rural Victims of Domestic Violence
Grama, J. L. (2000). Women Forgotten: Difficulties Faced by Rural Victims of Domestic
Violence. American Journal of Family Law, 14(3), 173.
This article explains the difficulties that women living in rural areas face when in a domestic
violence situation. The author was based upon research for a grant proposal to create rural
domestic violence advocacy project that the author wrote in 1999. She talks about how most of
the research and resources available to victims of domestic violence are following the lead or
adopting the policies of urban areas. The issues of victims in urban areas are not the same as
victims residing in rural areas, they are not even close.
The article explains the lack of resources that are aligned with the rural victim of domestic
violence. Some of the issues are geographic isolation, lack of anonymity, lack of transportation,
lack of shelters and other domestic violence programs, and the legal system and their
involvement. This aligns with my argument in its entirety. You can tell that she not only did her
research but she also did some in the field research. The part of the article where she talks about
the lack of shelters and other domestic violence programs is alarming. To think that sometimes
when a victim is trying to leave an abusive relationship that they may have to travel up to one
hundred miles away is a scary thought to me. In this article she not only lists the issues that the
rural population face but kind of lays out a roadmap to fix these issues in detail.
I considered this to be a credible source because it was peer reviewed for starters. The author
added in the citations of all the resources she had used. When I applied the C.R.A.P.P.O test it
received a score of well over thirty five. She is affiliated with the National University of Political
Studies and Public Administration in the department of communications.
Source 3:
I had a hard time with finding a source that opposed my argument completely. In the two sources
that I was already reading there were different points made throughout the articles where there
were comments listed from others that thought what the author had listed as being a barrier could
actually work in favor of the victim. Such as a lack of anonymity, service providers may receive
a lot of information about a woman’s particular situation from family and friends and that could
lessen a battered woman’s perception that she needs to prove that she has been abused to service
providers (Grama, 2000). Even though views such as this is the minority view it still exists. I
understand that to be a good issue for the persuasive essay that we had to find opposing research
articles but I found the opposing view points in the same sources as the articles in agreement. For
someone that is interested and has a passion for helping battered women to get out of the
domestic violence situation that they are in I felt that this was a very good topic for myself to be
able to argue. I have been in the same situation before and only wish that there were more
resources available to me because I might have been able to leave the situation I was in a lot
sooner than I did.