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Judicialising and (de) criminalising domestic violence in Latin America
- Author:
- MACAULAY Fiona
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 5(1), January 2006, pp.103-114.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This article analyses the specific ways in which Latin American countries have judicialised domestic violence over the last decade. In particular, it highlights the new definitions of spousal abuse and procedures adopted in both criminal and non-criminal courts. The region has seen two countervailing tendencies, the first to criminalise, through penal code definitions and higher penalties, the second to divert this offence into legal arenas that tend, either implicitly or explicitly, towards effective decriminalisation and downgrading of this form of social violence due to their emphasis on conciliation and transactional procedures. This has resulted, in many cases, in a two-track, hybridised treatment of domestic violence that is ultimately unsatisfactory in meeting the various needs of women victims.
Hidden pain?: people with learning disabilities who hurt themselves
- Authors:
- HESLOP Pauline, MACAULAY Fiona
- Publisher:
- Bristol Crisis Service for Women
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This document is an easy read summary which provides the key findings from a research project which aimed to obtain the views of people with learning disabilities about their self-injury. It is based on interviews of 25 people with learning disabilities and personal experience of self-injury. The key findings of the project are described, including why people hurt themselves and the circumstances leading up to their self-injury, and how people try to stop hurting themselves and the support they need to do this. Other resources for people with learning disabilities who hurt themselves are listed.
Hidden pain?: self-injury and people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- HESLOP Pauline, MACAULAY Fiona
- Publisher:
- Bristol Crisis Service for Women
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 116p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This report presents the findings from a 3-year research project which aimed to obtain the views of people with learning disabilities about their self-injury. It is based on the views of 25 people with learning disabilities and personal experience of self-injury who took part in up to 4 research interviews each. The people with learning disabilities were aged between 14 and 65 and lived in the United Kingdom in a variety of different living arrangements. In addition, interviews were also conducted with 15 family members and 33 professionals. The most common types of self-injury were found to be scratching, cutting their skin and hitting themselves. Half of the participants reported engaging in these behaviours. The next most frequently reported types of self-injury were self-biting, taking an overdose and hitting out at something else such as a wall or hard object. All but 5 of the participants engaged in more than one type of self-injury. This report covers: people with learning disabilities’ experiences of self-injury; circumstances leading up to their self-injury; their feelings before self-injuring; how they try to stop themselves self-injuring; the circumstances for people with learning disabilities after self-injuring; what they consider to be helpful and less helpful forms of support; family members and professionals’ views about self-injury; and the impact on family members and professionals of supporting a person with learning disabilities who self-injures.
Research unpacked: damage limitation
- Authors:
- HESLOP Pauline, MACAULAY Fiona
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 10(1), January 2010, pp.16-18.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article describes a study which looked at how people with learning disabilities who self-injure make sense of their self-injury and what they say would help most. Twenty-five people with learning disabilities and personal experience of self-injury took part in 1 to 4 research interviews between 2006 and 2008. All the participants were able to describe examples of circumstances leading up to their self-injury. These included external factors over which the participant had little control such as not being listened to, interpersonal factors such as being bullied, and internal factors caused for example by particular thoughts or memories. The participants identified the feelings they experienced before self-injuring, the most common being angry, sad, depressed, low, frustrated, or wound up. Over three-quarters of the participants considered that having someone to talk to who would listen to them would help, and also wanted someone to help look after their injuries. Being encouraged not to self-injure was considered helpful by some and unhelpful by others. The article concludes that the results challenge existing practice which considers that nothing can be done, and indicate the need to work with each person individually to help them use coping strategies. Creating conditions where people with learning disabilities have choice and control over their lives is also important.
Thinking it through: providing support services for children and teenagers with autistic spectrum disorders
- Authors:
- TARLETON Beth, KELLY Narcie, MACAULAY Fiona
- Publisher:
- Shared Care Network,|Norah Fry Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 71p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Thinking it through pack will help service providers, carers, workers and volunteers think through how they provide any type of support service for children and teenagers with autistic spectrum disorders. It introduces the concept of autism and shows how autism impacts on each individual in a unique way. It provides 6 key principles that should underpin any service provision and gives strategies and examples relevant to each phase of service provision.