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10/17/2026

10/16/2026

Judicial Actors’ Understanding of the Mental Health Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence: A Scoping Review

“We identified five main themes, including: awareness of survivors’ experiences, gap in judicial actors’ knowledge, understanding of perpetrator tactics and risk factors, disclosing mental health problems, training, and guidance.

Evidence from organizations that work with survivors suggests that the common mental health impacts that they experience because of IPV are either not well-understood by judicial actors or are often decontextualized and used by the courts to refuse protection orders for women, award child custody to abusive men, and/or remove children to live with relatives or others (Mackenzie & Herbert, 2017).

Judicial actors here are defined as people who participate in the administration of justice, including judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and other court staff. IPV survivors may be involved in various legal jurisdictions such as criminal justice, family law, child welfare, and civil law.

Judicial actors who do not understand the mental health impact of IPV on women may create an environment where “secondary victimization” of women can occur (Laing, 2017). Secondary victimization occurs when court processes mimic perpetrator patterns, reinforcing unequal power dynamics resulting in the potential to re-traumatize survivors.

Herman (2015) described the impact of the adversarial court system stating:

“The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior power of men. . . . If one set out by design to devise a system for provoking intrusive post-traumatic symptoms, one could not do better than a court of law. (p. 91).””

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global public health issue that has grave physical and mental health consequences for millions of women. The judicial system plays a critical role in responding to IPV principally through the criminal justice ...

10/14/2026

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YEG Built For Life Foundation is working toward transitional housing for women and children rebuilding their lives after domestic violence.

Our first goal: 30 sponsors contributing $5,000 each to purchase land for approximately $150,000. From there, we’ll seek cabin sponsors, with development subject to local zoning and approvals.

Every family deserves safety, stability and room to heal.

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10/13/2026

10/12/2026

THE SYSTEM IS THE WEAPON

Women and children are not safe from judges that dismiss medically documented child abuse, that continue penalizing women for protecting children, believing perpetrators who want to harm the relationship between the mother and child (CAMS - Child and Mother Sabotage).

WHO don’t review historical accounts of WHEN parental alienation is alleged by the perpetrator.

Women are forced to defend themself so much more than perpetrators are to provide evidence for what they are alleging. This manipulation is how judges believe perpetrators and how women and children continue to be harmed. Plus if a judge has had a similiar experience, there is bias.

You know what legal entrapment looks like in family court?
It’s when every road leads back to the same place, and they’ve already decided what you’re going to be called when you get there.
You tell them what he did. Stuck in the past.
You won’t hand the kids over. Obstructive.
You explain why they’re scared. Coaching.
You do what they ordered and the kids come home a mess. You haven’t promoted the relationship.
There’s no version of this where you’re not the problem. That’s the point.
📕The System Is The Weapon
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10/09/2026

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10/09/2026

“Victim-survivors of intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA) have, for many years, described the on-going patterns of abusive behaviors used against them by their, usually male (ONS, 2022) partners, involving a range of behaviors and varying combination of types of abuse including psychological, physical, sexual, financial, emotional and threats as well as stalking and harassment—that the perpetrator uses to coerce them and control their lives.

However, in terms of the criminal justice response, there has long been an emphasis on physical violence as domestic abuse-related offences (HMIC, 2014) with police officers still largely responding to individual “incidents” of IPVA.

This focus on incidents of physical violence overlooks the many other coercive or controlling behaviors that perpetrators may use, which undermine the selfconfidence, selfesteem, and selfworth of victims-survivors over time, but may not be obvious to witnesses, police officers, doctors, lawyers, judges, juries, nor by the victim-survivor themselves (Williamson, 2000).”

This paper explores the use of chemical control by perpetrators as part of coercive controlling intimate partner violence and abuse, defined as the nonconsenting use of prescribed and nonprescribed medication (including vaccines), and/or other ...

10/05/2026

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