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A Qualitative ‘Evaluation’ of the Bystander Project: the problem of binaries

Roberts, Nicola, Ovington, Julie and Marsh, Heaven (2021) A Qualitative ‘Evaluation’ of the Bystander Project: the problem of binaries. In: CASS Lecture Series, 17 March 2021, University of Sunderland. Available at: https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/more/research/thematic-research-areas/social-sciences/public-lectures/public-lectures-202021-recordings/. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Evaluations in the US (Coker et al., 2016; Johnston et al., 2018; Jouriles et al., 2018; Katz and Moore, 2013; Kettrey et al., 2019; McMahon et al., 2015; McMahon et al., 2018; Senn and Forrest, 2016) and in the UK (Fenton and Mott, 2018; Gainsbury et al., 2020; Roberts and Marsh, 2021), show that bystander interventions have the potential to reduce violence and abuse. Yet it is not clear whether: participants become active bystanders after the intervention (Katz and Moore, 2013; Kettrey et al., 2019; Levine, 2020; Storer et al., 2016); nor how and why interventions work (Levine et al., 2020; McMahon et al., 2015; Storer et al., 2016). We evaluated a bystander intervention to address what works. While we identified interactive techniques as the best modes of delivering the intervention, we found that the myriad of violence and abusive behaviours, which the intervention sought to disrupt, ensured that ‘a clear dividing line’ (Barad, 2014:169) between unacceptable and acceptable behaviours could not be established, so that bystanders know when to intervene. We argue that: becoming an active bystander is non-linear; bystander interventions need to be (re)-purposed; and concepts of harm must extend beyond a legal framework to achieve social justice.

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Depositing User: Nicola Roberts

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Item ID: 13258
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/13258
Official URL: https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/more/research/themati...

Users with ORCIDS

ORCID for Nicola Roberts: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2619-1346
ORCID for Julie Ovington: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3734-8364

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Date Deposited: 26 Apr 2021 14:51
Last Modified: 11 Nov 2021 11:50

Contributors

Author: Nicola Roberts ORCID iD
Author: Julie Ovington ORCID iD
Author: Heaven Marsh

University Divisions

Faculty of Education and Society > School of Social Sciences

Subjects

Social Sciences > Criminology

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