“So This is Where You Think I Need to Be?”: How Abusers Use Jail Calls to Manipulate Victims
Course Description
The nature of intra-family violence – crimes committed in private and involving victims who have love for, loyalty to, and fear of their abusers – makes criminal cases difficult to successfully prosecute. This is particularly true when the abuser is able to communicate with the victim of the crime, convincing the victim to “take it back.” In 2011, two researchers studied how abusers communicate with victims in jail calls. This presentation will explore the researchers’ “five-stage model,” which dissects the ways that abusers use victim empathy to accomplish the abusers’ goals. Attendees will learn how to use this research and jail communications to prove offender danger, witness tampering, and forfeiture by wrongdoing.
Learning Objectives
1. Recognize ways in which family violence offenders manipulate victims to recant their allegations.
2. Identify ways in which those working within the criminal justice system can offer meaningful support and intervention to victims and non-offending caregivers.
3. Prepare to address offender manipulation with additional charges and with motions to admit hearsay evidence.
2. Identify ways in which those working within the criminal justice system can offer meaningful support and intervention to victims and non-offending caregivers.
3. Prepare to address offender manipulation with additional charges and with motions to admit hearsay evidence.
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