La protection de l’enfance en danger reste un domaine sensible. Le dispositif français veille à répondre au mieux aux différentes situations auxquelles le mineur peut être confronté, mais les dysfonctionnements relevés ces dernières années conduisent le législateur à réorganiser le système de protection. En réponse aux attentes des professionnels, la loi du 5 mars 2007 réformant la protection de l’enfance a donc procédé à de nombreux aménagements. Pour autant, la réforme peine à se mettre en place en pratique. Les déceptions occasionnées invitent à réévaluer le système instauré. L’étude du dispositif de protection de l’enfance rend compte de son indispensable perfectionnement. La mise en perspective d’une nouvelle réforme se fait dès lors rapidement sentir en raison de l’insuffisance des critères d’intervention et de l’inadaptation des traitements. Ce bilan en demi-teinte conduit à rechercher des solutions qui pourraient être empruntées aux systèmes étrangers, qui, comme la France, reposent sur un modèle déjudiciarisé. Peu à peu, la mise en œuvre d’une nouvelle réforme de la protection de l’enfance paraît inévitable. L’amélioration du dispositif français de protection passe par deux types d’interventions essentielles. D’une part, la redéfinition des critères et l’amélioration des mesures de prise en charge devraient permettre un véritable réajustement substantiel du dispositif de protection de l’enfance. D’autre part, la refonte formelle de ce même dispositif pourrait se réaliser par le biais d’une réelle redistribution des compétences et l’élaboration d’un code uniquement consacré à la protection des mineurs et des jeunes majeurs. Ce n’est qu’à l’issue d’une telle réforme que le dispositif de protection de l’enfance pourra être considéré comme étant à la hauteur de ses ambitions. / The protection of children at risk remains a sensitive area. The French law system ensures to respond to the different situations that children may face, but the recently identified dysfunctions led the legislator (or lawmaker) to reorganize the system of protection. The law of March 5, 2007 on children’s protection brought many updates in response to the professionnals’ needs. However, the reform is struggling to be implemented in practice. The occasioned disappointments invite to reevaluate this system.The study of the protective plan of childhood brings to the conclusion of an obvious need for implementation. The perspective of a new reform appears necessary due to the lack of intervention criterias and inadequate treatments. This mixed satisfaction review leeds to find solutions that could be inspired from foreign systems, which, like in France, rely on a judicialized model. Gradually, the implementation of a new reform of children protection seems inevitable (or unavoidable). The improvement of the French protection plan, goes through two types of essential contributions. First, the redefinition of criterias and the improvement of measures of support should allow a substantial readjustment of children’s protection plan. Second, the complete redesign of the same plan could be achieved through a redistribution of skills and the development of a code dedicated to the protection of minors and young adults. It is only after such a reform that the children’s protection plan could be considered successful in meeting its ambitions.

Syftet med studien är att bidra med kunskap kring hur diskurser konkurrerar om vad som är barns bästa och hur dessa styr tingsrättens beslut vid vårdnadstvister när det finns uppgifter om pappans våld mot mamma och eventuellt barn. Det empiriska materialet utgick ifrån 14 domar där det fanns uppgifter om pappans våld inom familjen. Tingsrätten hade som uppgift att döma huruvida vårdnaden skulle vara gemensam eller ensam för föräldrarnas gemensamma barn. Studien är kvalitativ och Norman Faircloughs diskursanalys används både som teori och metod tillsammans med socialkonstruktionism, med betoning på genus som social konstruktion. Resultatet i studien visar på två diskurser som tingsrätten motiverar sina beslut utifrån, där båda syftar till att argumentera eller göra trovärdigt vad som är för barnets bästa. I ”behovsdiskursen” betonas vikten av en god och nära relation till båda föräldrarna, emedan ”riskdiskursen” betonar risken för att barnet kan fara illa. Dessa två diskurser påverkar domstolens syn på föräldrarnas samarbete, vilket i sin tur påverkar tingsrättens beslut om gemensam respektive ensam vårdnad. Även på vilket sätt tingsrätten tar upp våldet och benämner våldet påverkas också utifrån vilken av de två diskurserna som råder. Inom behovsdiskursen bedömdes samarbetet som tillräckligt bra vid minsta möjliga tecken på att föräldrarna kunde enas i olika gemensamma beslut rörande barnet, vilket resulterade i gemensam vårdnad. Uppgifter om våld från pappan omformulerades eller omnämndes aldrig, vilket gjorde att våldet inom behovsdiskursen förminskades och fick en underordnad betydelse. Inom riskdiskursen bedömdes det svåra samarbetet mellan föräldrarna utgöra en risk för att barnet skulle fara illa, vilket gjorde att utfallet här blev ensam vårdnad. Inom riskdiskursen synliggjordes och problematiserades våldet i mycket högre grad. / The purpose of the study is to contribute with knowledge about how discourses compete for what is in the best interests of the child and how these govern the district court's decisions in custody disputes when there is information about the father's violence against the mother and any children. The empirical material was based on 14 judgments where there was information about the father's violence within the family. The district court's task was to judge whether custody should be joint or single for the parents' common children. The study is qualitative and Norman Fairclough's discourse analysis is used both as a theory and method together with social constructionism with emphasis on a gender perspective as an additional theory. The results of the study show two discourses from which the district court justifies its decisions, there both aim to argue or make credible what is in the best interests of the child. The “Discourse of needs” emphasizes the importance of a good and close relationship with both parents, while the “Discourse of risk” emphasizes the risk that the child may be harmed. The court's reasoning regarding the parents' cooperation is affected by which of the two discourses prevails. The way in which they address the violence and denominates it violence is also affected on the basis of the discourse on which the court is based. Violence tended to be deminished in both discourses, however, it became clear within the discourse of needs.

The dissertation thesis "Relationship of parents to minors with regard to the specifics of domestic violence" focuses in particular on judicial proceedings in cases of custody of minors where family relationships are affected by domestic violence. It attempts to explain why it is necessary for the courts to take into account this fact and to adopt such measures within their decisions to provide sufficient protection to persons at risk and at the same time to stop violent behaviour. Domestic violence as a dangerous social phenomenon is described in detail; information on its individual appearances and forms is brought; briefly mentioned are also other scientific disciplines whose knowledge is important not only for the recourse of offenders and the protection of victims but also for creation of a strategy of effective prevention. Negative impacts on mental state of minors are stressed, who must be viewed in all cases of domestic violence as its victims, i.e. also when the violent behaviour is not immediately directed against them. The thesis brings interpretation of the current legislation with reference to the most important changes in the legislation in the last decade. Last but not least, measures de lege ferenda are proposed the implementation of which could contribute to eliminating this...