Institutional Violence Against Users of the Family Law Courts and the Legal Harassment Scale
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Institutional Violence Against Users of the Family Law Courts and the Legal Harassment ScaleAuthor(s)
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2019-01Citation
Clemente M, Padilla-Racero D, Espinosa P, Reig-Botella A and Gandoy-Crego M (2019) Institutional Violence Against Users of the Family Law Courts and the Legal Harassment Scale. Front. Psychol. 10:1. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00001
Abstract
[Abstract] The term harassment is often used to refer two contexts, the workplace and school,
but not the legal system itself. Long drawn-out litigation in the Family Law Courts
often produces a surreptitious phenomenon of violence toward one of the litigating
parties, who become victims of the legal system itself. The aim of this study was to
determine whether legal harassment could be detected and measured in the Spanish
Justice System using an innovative Legal Harassment Scale (LHS). This hypothesis
was substantiated by the data obtained using a new 32-item psychometric instrument
with a global index: the LHS, consisting of four factors: Direct Aggression, Procedural
Harassment, Personal Contempt, and Manipulation of Reality. The estimated reliability
and validity of the LHS was satisfactory, both in terms of the global score, and for
each of the four factors distributed along the normal curve. The results of this study
are discussed in terms of the limitations of the study and in relation to future lines of
research aimed at ensuring that the legal system respects and safeguards the rights of
the parties involved in litigation, and that no party falls victim to legal harassment
Keywords
Family law
Legal harassment
Legal system
Scale
Violence
Ley de familia
Sistema legal
Acoso legal
Escala
Violencia
Legal harassment
Legal system
Scale
Violence
Ley de familia
Sistema legal
Acoso legal
Escala
Violencia
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