The Role of Institutions in Responding to Interpersonal Violence

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The Role of Institutions in Responding to Interpersonal Violence
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Institutions, such as schools, have a role to play in preventing and responding to interpersonal violence. This article discusses the importance of institutional actions in supporting survivors and presents the findings of a scoping review on institutional betrayal.

Institutions, such as schools, have a role to play in preventing and responding to interpersonal violence. A while back, a colleague who works with survivors of intimate violence reached out to ask what research studies had to say about institutional responses to reports of interpersonal traumas. In that conversation, we talked about growing evidence that the actions institutions take—whether they are schools, businesses, the military, or faith organizations—matter to survivors.

As survivors have described to journalists and researchers, institutions can take actions that help or harm. What was the state of the growing research literature, though? With my colleague’s question in mind, graduate students on my research team took the lead on a scoping review. In a scoping review, researchers carefully identify and map studies in a topic area—in our case, the topic was institutional betrayal. Interpersonal traumas are often perpetrated by people close to the survivor, such as intimate partners, caregivers, coaches, bosses, and friends

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