The case of the missing perpetrator

ISBN-13: 9783639151794 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 312 str.

Susan Strega

Opis

This book analyses the introduction, development andreification of the concepts of children witnessingand mothers failing to protect as powerful andcurrently dominant child welfare ideas in the UnitedKingdom and Canada. Discourse analysis methods froma number of sources were drawn on to reveal andinterpret how and why the discourse of failure toprotect has emerged, how it shapes and informs childprotection practice and policy, and the effects onboth mothers and social workers. Strega demonstrates that the concepts of childrenwitnessing and mothers failing to protect areconstructed, enacted and deployed in ways thatmaintain and perhaps even increase the nature andextent of violence against women and children. Shecontends that the rhetoric and actions engendered bythese discourses are in themselves injurious towomen, both individually in cases where mothers loseor are threatened with the loss of their children,and collectively in contributing to a continuingfailure to hold responsible or even notice men whoperpetrate violence against mothers.

O autorze

Susan Strega is an Associate Professor in Social Work, University
of Victoria, Canada. She is the co-editor, with
Jeannine Carrière, of Walking this Path Together: Anti-Racist and
Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare Practice (Fernwood Publishing,
2009) and the co-editor, with Leslie Brown, of Research as
Resistance (Canadian Scholars Press, 2005).