This edited book brings together a range of expert voices – academics, researchers, practitioners, activists, and policy leads – who are responding to domestic and sexual violence (DASV) in various settings.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Section 1: Multi-agency and community-based systems responses and applications.- Chapter 2: A systems approach analysis of a multi-agency response to domestic abuse.- Chapter 3: Promoting better outcomes for migrant victim-survivors through community-based systems interactions and levers of change.- Section 2: Tools and conceptual ideas for engendering systems thinking.- Chapter 4: A socio-technical approach to researching technologically facilitated intimate abuse.- Chapter 5: In search of hopes for change: what can systems thinking offer racial justice-oriented networks aimed at tackling systemic invisibility of Black, Brown, and other racially minoritised voices in the VAWG/DASV sphere.- Chapter 6: Transforming consciousness to change systems: Deploying critical systems thinking to enhance Rape Crisis Centre training.- Section 3: Other Institutional Responses and Applications of Systems Approaches.- Chapter 7: A systems approach to preventing and responding to abusive image sharing among young people.- Chapter 8: Systemic Responses to Online Abuse on Campus.- Chapter 9: Policing domestic abuse: a critical systems approach to surfacing values, boundaries, and assumptions.

“Domestic abuse is everyone’s business, and it is vital that every agency in our communities – from health to education to banks – comes together systemically to protect victims and survivors and hold perpetrators to account. As a champion of the Coordinated Community Response in the UK, I strongly welcome the systems-focus of this important new collection. Dr Olumide Adisa is a foremost expert on domestic abuse who gets involved not just academically but also in her own community, and this gives her a unique perspective on how to make systems work for victims and survivors in reality. I encourage academics, policymakers, partnerships, practitioners and other experts to make use of this important new work.” —Nicole Jacobs, The Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales This edited book brings together a range of expert voices – academics, researchers, practitioners, activists, and policy leads – who are responding to domestic and sexual violence (DASV) in various settings. The chapters are united in the need to embed systemic responses to these social issues within a broader accountability and support system. It provides a timely and refreshing take on tackling a pervasive social issue at a time of increased complexity and crisis while exploring the real-world consequences and impacts of service provision at a systems level, emphasising the need for greater coordination and alignment.   Olumide Adisa is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Suffolk and Complex Systems Theory Lead/Co-Investigator at VISION at City University, London, UK. She founded the Domestic Abuse Research Network (DARNet). As an engaged academic in the sector, she brings an enormous breadth and depth of knowledge and experience on domestic abuse, improving services and commissioning for all victims/survivors, and developing complex systems change approaches for violence prevention and mitigation. Emma Bond is Pro-Vice Chancellor Research and Professor of Socio-Technical Research at the University of Suffolk, UK. Emma has extensive research experience focusing on online risk and vulnerable groups, image-based abuse (sexting and revenge pornography), online harassment, domestic abuse, and sexual abuse, and she is internationally renowned for her work on online safeguarding.

Explores the role of systems in optimising and transforming DASV prevention and provision efforts Uses “What Works” evidence in policy and practice spaces on domestic and sexual violence (DASV) Weighs up the advantages and disadvantages of legislation and technology-based solutions