Getting out of domestic violence: narratives of trajectories as new lenses to analyse violence and disengagement

The context of partner violence raises the question of desistance as a temporal and/or relational process. Time, experiences within the couple, motivations specific to the relationship but also to the individual allow us to understand the cessation of violent behaviours. Through recent knowledge and researches, we will discuss the conceptualization of desistance in perspective of the context of domestic violence from cases presentation.