Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global public health issue that has grave physical and mental health consequences for millions of women. The judicial system plays a critical role in responding to IPV principally through the criminal justice system, family law, and/or child welfare jurisdictions. However, victims/survivors who interact with the legal system report negative experiences. An under-researched area of scholarship is the degree to which judicial actors understand the mental health impacts of IPV on victims/survivors and how they apply that knowledge in practice. This scoping review aimed to identify and synthesize existing scholarship on judicial actors’ understanding of the mental health impacts of IPV on women survivors. We searched 10 databases (Medline, Scopus, PubMed, PsycINFO, EMBASE, Westlaw, HeinOnline, the Cochrane Library, and the Joanna Briggs Library databases) for studies published between 2000 and 2023. A total of 27 studies were included in the review. We identified five main themes, including: awareness of survivors’ experiences, gap in judicial actors’ knowledge, understanding of perpetrator tactics and risk factors, disclosing mental health problems, training, and guidance. The review highlights significant gaps in judicial actors’ understanding of this issue and recommends strategies to increase the awareness and understanding of IPV among judicial actors. The findings can be used to justify future research to better understand the training and development needs of judicial actors to improve their level of awareness of the dynamics and impact of IPV and to make policy and practice recommendations to build the capacity of the judicial workforce.

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司法行为者对亲密伴侣暴力对心理健康影响的理解：范围界定审查


亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）是一个全球性公共卫生问题，对数百万妇女的身心健康造成严重后果。司法系统主要通过刑事司法系统、家庭法和/或儿童福利司法管辖区在应对 IPV 方面发挥着关键作用。然而，与法律系统互动的受害者/幸存者报告了负面经历。学术研究不足的领域是司法行为者了解 IPV 对受害者/幸存者心理健康影响的程度以及他们如何在实践中应用这些知识。本次范围界定审查旨在确定并综合司法行为者对 IPV 对女性幸存者心理健康影响的理解的现有学术成果。我们检索了 10 个数据库（Medline、Scopus、PubMed、PsycINFO、EMBASE、Westlaw、HeinOnline、Cochrane 图书馆和 Joanna Briggs 图书馆数据库）中 2000 年至 2023 年间发表的研究。该综述总共纳入了 27 项研究。我们确定了五个主题，包括：对幸存者经历的认识、司法人员的知识差距、对犯罪者策略和风险因素的理解、披露心理健康问题、培训和指导。审查强调了司法行为者对此问题的理解存在重大差距，并提出了提高司法行为者对 IPV 认识和理解的策略。研究结果可用于证明未来研究的合理性，以更好地了解司法行为者的培训和发展需求，提高他们对 IPV 动态和影响的认识水平，并提出政策和实践建议，以建设司法人员的能力。