Domestic Abuse

Brooks-Hay Oona

Description

Domestic abuse is a global health and social problem. This edited volume considers Scottish responses in a wide comparative context.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Escocia
• Domestic violence
• Scotland

Informations

• Publié par: Dunedin Academic Press
• Date de parution: 01 juillet 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781780465944
• Langue: English

Extrait

POLICY AND PRACTICE IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SERIES EDITORS CHARLOTTE L. CLARKE AND CHARLOTTE PEARSON
Domestic Abuse
Contemporary Perspectives and Innovative Practices
Edited by
Oona Brooks-Hay, Michele Burman and Clare McFeely
CONTENTS Acknowledgements Glossary of Abbreviations Contributor Biographies Foreword: It’s Different in Scotland Marsha Scott Chapter 1 Introducing Scotland’s Approach to Domestic Abuse Oona Brooks-Hay, Michele Burman and Clare McFeely Chapter 2 Understanding, Defining and Measuring Domestic Abuse Oona Brooks-Hay and Michele Burman Chapter 3 Policing Domestic Abuse: The gateway to justice? Oona Brooks-Hay Chapter 4 Domestic Abuse: A continuing challenge for criminal justice Michele Burman Chapter 5 Domestic Abuse and Health: Meeting the duty of care Clare McFeely and Katie Cosgrove Chapter 6 Another Brick in the Wall? Preventative education in Scottish schools Nancy Lombard and Roy Harris Chapter 7 Domestic Abuse and the Role of Children and Families’ Social Work Fiona Morrison and Anna Mitchell Chapter 8 Conclusion: Looking back, moving forward (‘Ahin/gang forward’) Clare McFeely, Michele Burman and Oona Brooks-Hay References Index
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Editing this book has been a very positive collaborative experience and we are grateful to the many people who supported and encouraged us in this process.
We would like to thank the contributing authors for their hard work and willingness to share their expertise, and Maureen McBride for her support with the manuscript. Also Emma Forbes and Lesley Walker, Barbara Adzajlic and Nel Whiting for their invaluable feedback, which helped to shape Chapters 4 and 6 .
Our particular thanks to Charlotte Pearson and Anthony Kinahan for encouraging the development of this book and for their patience. The writing process was prolonged by impending legislative changes and the birth of four babies (Rosa, Lachlan, Stanley and Theo).
Perhaps most importantly, we would like to acknowledge the inspirational and tireless work of the feminist activists who collectively drove forward the work described in this volume and individually taught us much.
GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS ASP Additional Support Plan ASSIST Advocacy Support Safety Information Services Together CfE Curriculum for Excellence COPFS Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service CSA childhood sexual abuse DACU Domestic Abuse Coordination Unit DALO domestic abuse liaison officer DSDAS Disclosure Scheme for Domestic Abuse in Scotland DVPP domestic violence perpetrator programme GBV gender-based violence GIRFEC Getting It Right for Every Child GLM Good Lives Model HMIC Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary IPV intimate partner violence IT intimate terrorism MARAC Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences MATAC Multi-Agency Tasking and Coordinating MVP Mentors in Violence Prevention NCYPPN National Children and Young People’s Prevention Network NICE National Institute for Health and Care Excellence NSPCC National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ONS Office for National Statistics PEACH preventing domestic abuse for children RCEM Royal College of Emergency Medicine RSHPE relationships, sexual health and parenthood education SCCJR Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research SCJS Scottish Crime and Justice Survey SCV situational couple violence SGHD Scottish Government Health Directorate SLAB Scottish Legal Aid Board SWA Scottish Women’s Aid UK United Kingdom UN United Nations UNCRC United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child US United States VAW Violence Against Women VIA Victim Information and Advice VR violent resistance WHA World Health Assembly WHO World Health Organization
CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES
Dr Oona Brooks-Hay is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Glasgow. She has worked as a researcher and practitioner in the field of gender-based violence for more than twenty years with a particular interest in domestic abuse and sexual offences. Oona is a coordinator of the Scottish Gender Based Violence Research Network and the founder of the Glasgow University Gender Based Violence Research Forum.
Michele Burman is Professor of Criminology and Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow and a founding co-Director of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR). She has long-standing research interests in gender, crime and justice, with a particular interest in criminal justice responses to gender-based violence.
Katie Cosgrove is the National Programme Manager for Gender Based Violence and Health in NHS Scotland, with responsibility for leading the work in NHS SCOTLAND to improve the healthcare identification and management of such abuse. She has worked in the field of gender and gender-based violence (GBV) for twenty-six years at both an operational and strategic level. She is a specialist technical advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) on violence against women, contributing to its gender mainstreaming, GBV and reproductive health programmes.
Roy Harris is an educational practitioner who works with primary schoolchildren. He has a particular interest in innovative education practices and is passionate about how critical thought in children can be encouraged.
Dr Nancy Lombard is a Reader in Sociology and Social Policy at Glasgow Caledonian University. She devised gender equality training for educational practitioners. Nancy was a Core Expert with the European Network of Experts on Gender Equality and currently sits on the Scottish government’s Strategic Board for the implementation of Equally Safe.
Dr Clare McFeely is a Lecturer in Nursing and Health Care at the University of Glasgow. Before moving to education, Clare worked in the NHS initially as a midwife and then in research and development roles, latterly focusing on the health response to survivors of GBV. Clare is also a founder member and coordinator of the Scottish Gender Based Violence Research Network.
Anna Mitchell is the Domestic Abuse Lead Officer in Edinburgh, having worked in a variety of domestic abuse settings and in local and national government operational and strategic roles for more than twenty years. She is interested in how child welfare systems engage with fathers who perpetrate domestic abuse in order to increase the safety of women and children.
Dr Fiona Morrison ‘is a lecturer at the Centre for Child Wellbeing and Protection at the University of Stirling. Her research interests are in the areas of children’s rights, child welfare, domestic abuse and social work with children and families.
FOREWORD
‘IT’S DIFFERENT IN SCOTLAND’
Anyone who has worked in policy or academic collaborations on Violence Against Women (VAW) at the United Kingdom (UK) or international level has said: ‘It’s different in Scotland.’ In 1999, devolution provided an opportunity for Scotland to reconsider VAW policy. Scotland’s Women’s Aid (SWA) movement wasted no time in lobbying for change, recorded in this iconic image of a march down Princes Street in Edinburgh the same year, while calling for a new law addressing domestic abuse.

Twenty years later, in 2019, the recently passed Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 will commence, and Scotland will operationalise a law founded on the feminist theory, research and practice outlined so ably by the authors of this book. The vote on the Bill was followed by a standing ovation by Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) for domestic abuse survivors and campaigners watching from the public gallery. It’s different in Scotland, indeed.
The passage of the new Act, and the year’s pause before it commences, offer immense challenges and opportunities for Scotland’s intention to eradicate domestic abuse. This book could not be more timely as it presents the challenges encountered during the evolution of policy and practice in Scotland and explores some critical issues that remain. Measuring domestic abuse via police reports and survey data has never provided satisfactory results. Given the newly expanded definition (see Chapter 2 ), this strategy will prove even less helpful. What is required is a strategic commitment to improved analysis on the part of the Scottish government.
The problem of dual arrests and the overarching issue of inappropriate arrest and charging of victims for domestic abuse are matters of grave concern for SWA. Arrests of women as ‘perpetrators’ of violence against male partners and ex-partners have steadily risen and then levelled off in the last ten years, as discussed in Chapter 3 . The impact of these arrests on women, especially women with children, is massive and harmful, and the risk of a similar trend when the new law is implemented is worrying. We have always considered this a signal for improved police training and supervision.
Understanding children’s experiences as victims and holding the abuser responsible rather than the non-offending parent (read, mother) requires a seismic shift in child protection and welfare systems in Scotland. Practice that frames children’s experience of abuse as what David Mandel calls ‘a parenting choice’ made by abusive parents is one of Scotland’s massive challenges in the decade ahead, and Chapter 7 describes early and important work in Edinburgh to implement system change through adoption of Safe and Together practice principles.
Until recently, children’s experiences were largely considered when they were ‘direct’ victims of abuse or in narrowly focused ‘prevention’ work that focused on calls for schools to teach (or, more often, ask local Women’s Aid groups to teach) teenagers that violence is bad (as if ‘violence’ is a homogenous phenomenon and with little or no challenge to institutional and systemic sexism). What a breath of fresh air then is the discussion in Chapter 6 of how the education sector can do primary prevention, by challenging gendered stereotypes in the classroom and curriculum.
The new policy and le