Professor Catherine Donovan's Outputs (123)

Understanding family abuse: An intersectional approach to prevention and addressing family abuse perpetrators (2024)
Journal Article
Gangoli, G., Donovan, C., Gill, A. K., Butterby, K., Dhir, A., & Regan, S. (online). Understanding family abuse: An intersectional approach to prevention and addressing family abuse perpetrators. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, https://doi.org/10.1332/23986808Y2024D000000054

This article provides an original contribution to understanding the motives for and perpetration patterns of family abuse that affects a range of minoritised communities, such as those minoritised on the basis of race, sexuality or transgender identi... Read More about Understanding family abuse: An intersectional approach to prevention and addressing family abuse perpetrators.

Disability, Mate Crime, and Cuckooing (Home Takeovers). (2024)
Book Chapter
Macdonald, S. J., Clayton, J., & Donovan, C. (2024). Disability, Mate Crime, and Cuckooing (Home Takeovers). In L. Burch, & D. Wilkin (Eds.), Disability Hate Crime: Perspectives for Change. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003442004-5

This chapter examines the practice of home takeovers, known as ‘cuckooing,’ and highlights how disabled individuals are particularly vulnerable to this form of mate/hate crime. Cuckooing is often described as a recent phenomenon stemming from shifts... Read More about Disability, Mate Crime, and Cuckooing (Home Takeovers)..

‘He Made Us a Bit Suicidal to be Honest’: Disability Studies, Hate and Victimisation (2024)
Book Chapter
Macdonald, S., Donovan, C., & Clayton, J. (in press). ‘He Made Us a Bit Suicidal to be Honest’: Disability Studies, Hate and Victimisation. In S. Weston, & J. Trebilcock (Eds.), Mental Health, Crime and Justice: An Edited Collection. Springer Nature

Improving Responses to Hate Relationships Final Report Executive Summary (2024)
Report
Donovan, C., Clayton, J., Macdonald, S., Long, C., Dutt, A., Jain, V., & Rabe, J. Improving Responses to Hate Relationships Final Report Executive Summary. Durham and Northumbria University

Bystander experiences of domestic violence and abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic (2024)
Journal Article
Walker, A., Fenton, R. A., Parry, B., Barton, E. R., Snowdon, L. C., Donovan, C., Bellis, M. A., & Hughes, K. (2024). Bystander experiences of domestic violence and abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 8(2), 141-161. https://doi.org/10.1332/23986808y2024d000000020

This article seeks to understand the experiences of bystanders to domestic violence and abuse (DVA) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales. Globally, professionals voiced concern over the COVID-19 restrictions exacerbating conditions for DVA to occur.... Read More about Bystander experiences of domestic violence and abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Familiar faces: hate relationships and the everyday-ness of hate perpetration (2024)
Book Chapter
Clayton, J., Macdonald, S., & Donovan, C. (in press). Familiar faces: hate relationships and the everyday-ness of hate perpetration. In I. Zempi, J. Garland, & J. Smith (Eds.), Familiar faces: hate relationships and the everyday-ness of hate perpetration. Palgrave Macmillan

From Isolation to Invasion: Disability and Loneliness as Catalysts for Cuckooing (2024)
Book Chapter
Macdonald, S., Clayton, J., & Donovan, C. (in press). From Isolation to Invasion: Disability and Loneliness as Catalysts for Cuckooing. In L. Bainbridge, R. Broad, & A. Loughery (Eds.), Understanding and Preventing ‘Cuckooing’ Victimisation: County Lines and Beyond. Routledge

Understanding gender and sexuality: The hidden curriculum in English schools (2023)
Journal Article
Gangoli, G., Donovan, C., King, H., & Dutt, A. (2023). Understanding gender and sexuality: The hidden curriculum in English schools. Review of Education, 11(3), Article e3440. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3440

Schools continue to produce regimes of gender and sexuality, including overt and covert curricula based on assumed essentialist differences between girls and boys, reinforced and regulated through uniform, sport and peer pressure. The recent focus on... Read More about Understanding gender and sexuality: The hidden curriculum in English schools.

Domestic colonisation: The centrality of the home in experiences of home‐takeovers and hate relationships (2023)
Journal Article
Clayton, J., Donovan, C., & Macdonald, S. J. (2024). Domestic colonisation: The centrality of the home in experiences of home‐takeovers and hate relationships. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 49(3), Article e12660. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12660

In this paper we introduce the concept of ‘domestic colonisation’ as a contribution to the literature on critical geographies of home. This provides a lens to focus on the ways in which domestic spaces might be exploited and/or dominated though famil... Read More about Domestic colonisation: The centrality of the home in experiences of home‐takeovers and hate relationships.

‘I wasn’t aware at the time, I could actually say “no”’: Intimacy, Expectations, and Consent in Queer Relationships (2023)
Book Chapter
Donovan, C., Butterby, K., & Barnes, R. (2023). ‘I wasn’t aware at the time, I could actually say “no”’: Intimacy, Expectations, and Consent in Queer Relationships. In S. Franklin, H. Piercy, A. Thampuran, & R. White (Eds.), Consent: Legacies, Representations, and Frameworks for the Future (154-169). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003365082-14

Drawing on interview data collected in three projects exploring domestic abuse in LGB and/or T+ people’s intimate relationships, this chapter examines sexual consent in LGB and/or T+ people’s abusive relationships through a queer lens. Three themes a... Read More about ‘I wasn’t aware at the time, I could actually say “no”’: Intimacy, Expectations, and Consent in Queer Relationships.

Students’ help-seeking for experiences of interpersonal violence: how can universities respond? (2023)
Journal Article
Roberts, N., Donovan, C., & Durey, M. (online). Students’ help-seeking for experiences of interpersonal violence: how can universities respond?. Criminology & Criminal Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958231202011

The prevention of interpersonal violence and abuse for students in Higher Educational Institutions and the development of appropriate institutional responses to support those affected are at the core of the Universities UK’s (2016) Changing the Cultu... Read More about Students’ help-seeking for experiences of interpersonal violence: how can universities respond?.

Family abuse targeting queer family members: An argument to address problems of visibility in local services and civic life (2023)
Journal Article
Donovan, C., Magić, J., & West, S. (online). Family abuse targeting queer family members: An argument to address problems of visibility in local services and civic life. Journal of Family Violence, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-023-00617-4

Purpose
To draw attention to the invisibility of family abuse victimisation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or trans folk and its impacts; and the lack of appropriate, confident, skilled, formal responses to family abuse victimisation. In addition to... Read More about Family abuse targeting queer family members: An argument to address problems of visibility in local services and civic life.

The Impact of Police ‘Process-Driven Responses’ on Supporting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and/or Transgender + Victim-Survivors of Domestic Abuse in England (2023)
Journal Article
Butterby, K., & Donovan, C. (2023). The Impact of Police ‘Process-Driven Responses’ on Supporting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and/or Transgender + Victim-Survivors of Domestic Abuse in England. Journal of Family Violence, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-023-00608-5

The public story of domestic abuse (DA) sets out DA as a problem of cisgender, heterosexual ‘strong’ men, perpetrating physical abuse towards cisgender, heterosexual ‘weak’ women. Drawing upon this narrative, LGB and/or T + victim-survivors may not s... Read More about The Impact of Police ‘Process-Driven Responses’ on Supporting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and/or Transgender + Victim-Survivors of Domestic Abuse in England.

Family Violence Within LGBTQ Communities in Australia: Intersectional Experiences and Associations with Mental Health Outcomes (2023)
Journal Article
Amos, N., Hill, A., Donovan, C., Carman, M., Parsons, M., McNair, R., …Bourne, A. (2023). Family Violence Within LGBTQ Communities in Australia: Intersectional Experiences and Associations with Mental Health Outcomes. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 20(4), 1316-1327. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-023-00822-2

Background: While prior research has documented intimate partner violence (IPV) and family of origin violence (FOV) experienced by LGBTQ communities at rates at least comparable to heterosexual and/or cisgender populations, little knowledge exists of... Read More about Family Violence Within LGBTQ Communities in Australia: Intersectional Experiences and Associations with Mental Health Outcomes.

Disablist Hate Relationships: The Impact of ‘Low-Level’ Forms of Community Violence on Disabled People’s Quality-of-Life. (2022)
Book Chapter
Macdonald, S., Donovan, C., & Clayton, J. (in press). Disablist Hate Relationships: The Impact of ‘Low-Level’ Forms of Community Violence on Disabled People’s Quality-of-Life. In S. J. Macdonald, & D. Peacock (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Disability, Crime, and Justice. Routledge

Naming and recognition of intimate partner violence and family of origin violence among LGBTQ communities in Australia (2022)
Journal Article
Bourne, A., Amos, N., Donovan, C., Carman, M., Parsons, M., Lusby, S., Lyons, A., & Hill, A. O. (2023). Naming and recognition of intimate partner violence and family of origin violence among LGBTQ communities in Australia. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 38(5-6), 4589-4615. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605221119722

Dominant framings of intimate partner violence (IPV) construct the experience as one where a cisgender man enacts violence against a cisgender woman. While often the case, this framing obfuscates the experiences of people who identify as lesbian, gay... Read More about Naming and recognition of intimate partner violence and family of origin violence among LGBTQ communities in Australia.

Becoming cuckooed: conceptualising the relationship between disability, home takeovers and criminal exploitation (2022)
Journal Article
Macdonald, S. J., Donovan, C., Clayton, J., & Husband, M. (2024). Becoming cuckooed: conceptualising the relationship between disability, home takeovers and criminal exploitation. Disability and Society, 39(2), 485-505. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2022.2071680

This article explores the phenomenon whereby disabled people’s homes are being occupied (i.e. cuckooed) by local perpetrators and/or county lines organised criminal groups. This study employs a qualitative biographical methodology that collects data... Read More about Becoming cuckooed: conceptualising the relationship between disability, home takeovers and criminal exploitation.

Re-Conceptualising Repeat Reports of Hate Crime/Incidents as Hate Relationships Based on Coercive Control and Space for Action (2022)
Journal Article
Donovan, C., Macdonald, S., & Clayton, J. (2023). Re-Conceptualising Repeat Reports of Hate Crime/Incidents as Hate Relationships Based on Coercive Control and Space for Action. Sociological Research Online, 28(2), 502–517. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804211065052

Developing from existing research in the field of hate studies, this article outlines a new approach to understanding repeated experiences of hate by perpetrators who live in close proximity as neighbours to those victimised. Building on previous wor... Read More about Re-Conceptualising Repeat Reports of Hate Crime/Incidents as Hate Relationships Based on Coercive Control and Space for Action.

Exploring ‘hate relationships’ through Connected Voice’s Hate Crime Advocacy Service (2021)
Report
Donovan, C., Clayton, J., Macdonald, S., Ungureanu, C., & Knight, M. (2021). Exploring ‘hate relationships’ through Connected Voice’s Hate Crime Advocacy Service. [No known commissioning body]

Living with hate relationships: familiar encounters, enduring racisms and geographies of entrapment (2021)
Journal Article
Clayton, J., Donovan, C., & Macdonald, S. (2022). Living with hate relationships: familiar encounters, enduring racisms and geographies of entrapment. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 40(1), 60-79

This paper utilises the concept of ‘hate relationships’ in conversation with the literature on geographies of encounter to explore experiences of racism for those entrapped by racist encounters with those who are familiar. In so doing we attend to th... Read More about Living with hate relationships: familiar encounters, enduring racisms and geographies of entrapment.