{"id":5136,"date":"2014-10-24T11:16:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:27:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:27:36","slug":"nfls-domestic-abuse-prevention-team-drafts-sociologist-beth-richie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2014\/10\/24\/nfls-domestic-abuse-prevention-team-drafts-sociologist-beth-richie\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL’s Domestic Abuse Prevention Team Drafts Sociologist Beth Richie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In response to the\u00a0disturbing number of\u00a0domestic violence arrests of its players, the NFL recently created a panel for implementing domestic abuse education and prevention strategies within the league. Beth Ritchie, the University of Illinois at Chicago\u2019s director of the Institute of Research on Race and Public Policy, was named as one of its five senior advisors.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Jia Tolentino for Jezebel<\/a>, Richie explains that \u201cRace and gender and class justice can’t be separated.\u201d Because about two-thirds of the NFL\u2019s players are African American, it\u2019s important to understand how these factors are connected in designing an effective domestic abuse education program. She explains:<\/p>\n

\u2026African-American people perceive and therefore use (or don’t use) police differently. The police aren’t necessarily seen as a protective force; there’s a different loyalty to one’s own people in disclosing, there’s a protectiveness built up from the way the media skews the actions of black men. Consequently, black sexual assault survivors have to walk through a maze before they can acknowledge the abuse or are willing to come forward. There’s a different willingness to turn our men over to the state. And I don’t want to say that turning in an abuser is easy for\u00a0any\u00a0<\/em>woman, but it’s meaningfully different for black women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because of this dynamic, Richie plans to work with the wives and partners of NFL players as well, to better understand the challenges of preventing domestic violence. Mindful of the complexity of the problem, she\u2019s excited about the NFL\u2019s initiative:<\/p>\n

The NFL taking this up so aggressively is very important, but there’s a real need to be careful; the NFL is an employer, not law enforcement, not family. I think they are trying to be respectful of women’s desires to make their own decisions about whom they’re with, while still holding men accountable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to the\u00a0disturbing number of\u00a0domestic violence arrests of its players, the NFL recently created a panel for implementing domestic abuse education and prevention strategies within the league. Beth Ritchie, the University of Illinois at Chicago\u2019s director of the Institute of Research on Race and Public Policy, was named as one of its five senior […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,15,55,14],"tags":[29525,2631,477,39114,39111,108],"class_list":["post-5136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-culture","category-gender","category-race","tag-beth-richie","tag-domestic-violence","tag-football","tag-gender","tag-race","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5142,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions\/5142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}