Alishya Dhir's Outputs (5)

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.

‘We work in the grey around decision making’; how ‘thematic discretion’ can help understand police decision-making in cases of youth image-based sexual abuse (2024)
Journal Article
Dhir, A. (online). ‘We work in the grey around decision making’; how ‘thematic discretion’ can help understand police decision-making in cases of youth image-based sexual abuse. Policing and Society, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2024.2378302

In this paper, I argue that a new term, ‘thematic discretion’, can help us understand police decision-making in cases of youth image-based sexual abuse (YIBSA). YIBSA can be defined as harmful image-sharing practices amongst young people, inclusive o... Read More about ‘We work in the grey around decision making’; how ‘thematic discretion’ can help understand police decision-making in cases of youth image-based sexual abuse.

The media and male victim-survivors of domestic abuse (2023)
Book Chapter
Burrell, S., & Dhir, A. (2023). The media and male victim-survivors of domestic abuse. In K. Boyle, & S. Berridge (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence (34-43). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003200871-5

There are a number of widely held myths about male victim-survivors of domestic abuse, which the media can play a significant role in reinforcing - or challenging. This includes ideas such as that male victim-survivors don’t exist at all; that they e... Read More about The media and male victim-survivors of domestic abuse.

Teaching for social change: introducing ‘scrapbooking’ as a pedagogic approach towards ending gender-based violence (2022)
Journal Article
Walling-Wefelmeyer, R., Johnson, K., Westmarland, N., Dhir, A., & Lyons Sumroy, A. (2023). Teaching for social change: introducing ‘scrapbooking’ as a pedagogic approach towards ending gender-based violence. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 7(1), 128-145. https://doi.org/10.1332/239868021x16661126604534

This article introduces and evaluates ‘scrapbooking’ as a critical pedagogic approach to gender-based violence (GBV). This approach is inspired by the rapid development of conceptual and methodological tools for researching violence and abuse and the... Read More about Teaching for social change: introducing ‘scrapbooking’ as a pedagogic approach towards ending gender-based violence.

“It's Like a Drive by Misogyny”: Sexual Violence at UK Music Festivals (2022)
Journal Article
Bows, H., Day, A., & Dhir, A. (2024). “It's Like a Drive by Misogyny”: Sexual Violence at UK Music Festivals. Violence Against Women, 30(2), 372-393. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012221120443

Despite increasing scholarly and media attention on sexual violence in public spaces, including those associated with the night-time economy and licensed venues, music festivals have been largely absent from research and policy. This paper presents t... Read More about “It's Like a Drive by Misogyny”: Sexual Violence at UK Music Festivals.