### Page: https://www.jacki.co.nz/contact Title: Contact | Jacki Rowles Language: en Canonical URL: https://www.jacki.co.nz/contact ## Headings Structure: No headings found ## Main Content: No content extracted --- ### Page: https://www.jacki.co.nz Title: Jacki Rowles | Coercive Control & Systems Abuse Specialist Meta Description: PhD researcher and family violence specialist in systemic coercive control and institutional systems abuse. Counselling, supervision, reports and workshops in Aotearoa New Zealand. Language: en Canonical URL: https://www.jacki.co.nz ## Headings Structure: H1: When harm is hard to seepatterns matter H3: Understanding patterns beyond visible violence H3: At the heart of my work is hope ## Main Content: H1: When harm is hard to seepatterns matter H3: Understanding patterns beyond visible violence H3: At the heart of my work is hope --- ### Page: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts Title: Handouts | Jacki Rowles Language: en Canonical URL: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts ## Headings Structure: No headings found ## Main Content: No content extracted --- ### Page: https://www.jacki.co.nz/services Title: Family Violence Services | Jacki Rowles Meta Description: Specialist counselling, clinical supervision, expert court reports and workshops grounded in doctoral research and frontline family violence practice. Language: en Canonical URL: https://www.jacki.co.nz/services ## Headings Structure: No headings found ## Main Content: No content extracted --- ### Page: https://www.jacki.co.nz/phd-research Title: PhD Research on Institutional Systems Abuse | Jacki Rowles Meta Description: Doctoral research examining systemic coercive control, institutional systems abuse and responder complicity in family violence responses. Language: en Canonical URL: https://www.jacki.co.nz/phd-research ## Headings Structure: H2: What My Thesis Explores H2: Moving Beyond Incident-Based Thinking H2: Identifying the Pathways H3: Pathway One: Predominant Aggressor Manipulation (PAM) H3: Pathway Two: Harmful Systems Responses (HSR) H2: Why This Work Matters H2: A Methodological Stance of Resistance H2: The Central Contribution H2: An Invitation ## Main Content: H2: What My Thesis Explores H2: Moving Beyond Incident-Based Thinking H2: Identifying the Pathways H3: Pathway One: Predominant Aggressor Manipulation (PAM) H3: Pathway Two: Harmful Systems Responses (HSR) H2: Why This Work Matters H2: A Methodological Stance of Resistance H2: The Central Contribution H2: An Invitation This thesis begins with a simple but uncomfortable observation: family violence does not only operate within intimate relationships. It travels. It adapts. It extends into institutions. Over many years of practice, I witnessed something that felt difficult to name. Women were describing not only the coercive control they were experiencing at home, but the ways in which systems — courts, agencies, schools, health services — were compounding that harm. Reports misread resistance. Risk assessments flattened patterns into incidents. Legal processes were used to continue control. Institutional responses, often unintentionally, reinforced the power of the predominant aggressor. These were not isolated mistakes. They felt patterned. This research asks: How does institutional systems abuse operate? Why is it so difficult to recognise? And how can it be interrupted? Much of our existing understanding of family violence focuses on incidents - discrete acts of physical or psychological harm. While important, this framing can obscure the patterned, liberty-restricting nature of coercive control. Coercive control is not a series of isolated events. It is a strategy of domination. It is about governing another person’s life — their movements, relationships, finances, credibility, and autonomy. When we fail to see the pattern, we risk misreading the response. When we misread the response, we risk becoming part of the harm. This thesis shifts the lens from individual incidents to patterned systems of power. Through reflexive thematic analysis of composite memory fragments drawn from 17 years of clinical practice, I identified two key pathways through which institutional systems abuse operates. This pathway traces how coercive controllers deliberately curate performances of credibility within institutional contexts. These performances are not random. They are strategically constructed presentations of self and narrative designed to influence perception, allocate credibility, and redistribute responsibility. Through these curated performances, systems can be recruited into the dynamic of coercive control — extending domination beyond the intimate relationship and into legal, social, and professional spaces. The second pathway examines harm that arises not from deliberate manipulation, but from the structure of institutions themselves. Policies, procedures, processes, and practices — the “4 Ps” — can unintentionally produce outcomes that minimise coercive control, misattribute responsibility, or neutralise gendered power. These responses are rarely malicious. They are often procedural, bureaucratic, or framed as neutral. Yet neutrality within unequal power structures can amplify harm. Together, these pathways show how institutional systems abuse is both enacted and embedded. Institutional systems abuse is often spoken about informally. Practitioners recognise it. Survivors feel it. Advocates name it. But until it is structured and mapped, it remains difficult to address. When harm is unnamed, it is easier to dismiss. When it is dismissed, it becomes normalised. When it is normalised, it persists. By mapping the pathways of systems abuse, this thesis makes the pattern visible. It moves the conversation beyond individual blame and toward systemic accountability. It offers a framework that practitioners, lawyers, policymakers, and institutions can use to recognise vulnerabilities and interrupt harm. This research is grounded in posthuman nomadic theory and informed by Response-Based Practice. It resists traditional individualised research frameworks that isolate harm within personal pathology or relational dysfunction. Instead, it positions family violence within social, gendered, and institutional power structures. It honours subjective, embodied, and lived experience as legitimate knowledge. The composite narratives used throughout the thesis protect confidentiality while tracing recurring patterns across cases. This is not research about individual failure. It is research about social systems and power. The central contribution of this thesis is the articulation of institutional systems abuse as patterned, structured, and interruptible. It demonstrates that: When we can see the pathways, we can choose differently. This work does not claim to provide a final answer. It offers a map. A map of how power travels. A map of how harm is reproduced. A map of where intervention becomes possible. Because when systems can become part of the harm, they can also become part of the solution. --- ### Page: https://www.jacki.co.nz/workshops Title: Workshops on Systemic Coercive Control | Jacki Rowles Meta Description: Research-informed training on systemic coercive control and institutional systems abuse for family violence practitioners and responders. Language: en Canonical URL: https://www.jacki.co.nz/workshops ## Headings Structure: No headings found ## Main Content: No content extracted --- ### Page: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts/institutional-systems-abuse-pathways-map Title: Institutional Systems Abuse Pathways Map Language: en Canonical URL: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts/institutional-systems-abuse-pathways-map ## Headings Structure: No headings found ## Main Content: No content extracted --- ### Page: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts/legal-systems-abuse-in-coercive-control Title: Legal Systems Abuse in Coercive Control Language: en Canonical URL: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts/legal-systems-abuse-in-coercive-control ## Headings Structure: No headings found ## Main Content: No content extracted --- ### Page: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts/mitigating-the-pre-emptive-strike-in-systemic-coercive-control Title: Mitigating the Pre-Emptive Strike in Systemic Coercive Control Language: en Canonical URL: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts/mitigating-the-pre-emptive-strike-in-systemic-coercive-control ## Headings Structure: No headings found ## Main Content: No content extracted --- ### Page: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts/predominant-aggressor-manipulation-pam-framework Title: Predominant Aggressor Manipulation (PAM) Framework Language: en Canonical URL: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts/predominant-aggressor-manipulation-pam-framework ## Headings Structure: No headings found ## Main Content: No content extracted --- ### Page: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts/scc-map-mapping-and-analysis-process Title: SCC-MAP: Mapping and Analysis Process Language: en Canonical URL: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts/scc-map-mapping-and-analysis-process ## Headings Structure: No headings found ## Main Content: No content extracted --- ### Page: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts/systemic-coercive-control-framework-map Title: Systemic Coercive Control Framework Map Language: en Canonical URL: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts/systemic-coercive-control-framework-map ## Headings Structure: No headings found ## Main Content: No content extracted --- ### Page: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts/systemic-coercive-control-wheel Title: Systemic Coercive Control Wheel Language: en Canonical URL: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts/systemic-coercive-control-wheel ## Headings Structure: No headings found ## Main Content: No content extracted --- ### Page: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts/systems-abuse-in-intimate-partner-violence Title: Systems Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence Language: en Canonical URL: https://www.jacki.co.nz/handouts/systems-abuse-in-intimate-partner-violence ## Headings Structure: No headings found ## Main Content: No content extracted ---