NCJ Number
231018
Journal
Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention Volume: 11 Issue: 1 Dated: 2010 Pages: 66-85
Date Published
2010
Length
20 pages
Annotation
This study examined Nordic children's exposure to domestic violence.
Abstract
Efforts to promote the protection of, and support to, abused women have opened up new understandings concerning children who see, hear, or in other ways are exposed to men's violence against women and its consequences. On the basis of a redefinition of children exposed to violence into children subjected to violence, some important policy changes have recently been made in the Nordic countries as regards children's status as crime victims. To enable a better understanding of the context of such changes in policy, this article explores the extent to which Nordic women's shelter/crisis centre organizations and children's rights organizations draw upon a justice discourse in relation to the issue of children exposed to violence. The analysis is based upon a study of 10 organizations working at a national level in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Figures and references (Published Abstract)