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Bakgrund: Våld mot kvinnor är idag ett globalt folkhälsoproblem. Det visar sig att 30 % av kvinnorna världen över har upplevt fysiskt eller sexuellt våld i en nära relation. Kvinnor som utsätts för våld söker sig i högre grad till hälso- och sjukvården än andra kvinnor. Där är risken relativt hög att sjuksköterskor kommer att möta våldsutsatta kvinnor i vården. Sjuksköterskor utgör därför en viktig roll i mötet och att våga ställa frågan om våld till kvinnorna som söker vård. Syfte: Att beskriva sjuksköterskors erfarenhet av mötet med kvinnor som utsätts för våld i nära relationer. Metod: En litteraturöversikt där datamaterial bestod av kvalitativa och kvantitativa artiklar. Resultat: Ur analysen av datamaterialet identifieras ett huvudområde Främja kvinnans självtillit och fem områden: Sjuksköterskan behöver använda screening på alla kvinnor, Sjuksköterskan reagerar på kvinnans partners aggressivitet, Sjuksköterskan möjliggör berättande, Sjuksköterskan behöver stödja kvinnan till ökad självständighet, Sjuksköterskan visar empatisk, ödmjuk attityd. Sjuksköterskor upplever mötet med våldsutsatta kvinnor som mycket känslosamt, vilket kan frambringas då kvinnorna berättar om sin livssituation. Avsaknad av utbildning kring problemområdet påverkar sjuksköterskornas beredskap och upplevelser av osäkerhet uppkommer om hur de skall agera i mötet med kvinnor som utsätts för våld. Slutsats: Sjuksköterskor upplever svårigheter att ställa frågan till kvinnor som blivit utsatta för våld i nära relationer. Sjuksköterskor eftersträvar mer utbildning för att kunna möta dessa kvinnor som blir utsatta av sin partner. / Background: Violence against women is currently a global public health problem. Studies have shown that 30% of women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence in intimate relationships. Women who experience violence more likely reach out to health care providers than other women, making encounters with abused women a reasonable possibility for a nurse. Nurses consequently have an important role in meeting these women who seek care and in asking the crucial questions regarding their experiences. Purpose: To describe nurses` experiences of encounters with women who are exposed to violence in close relationships. Method: A literature review where data material consisted of qualitative and quantitative articles. Results: From the analysis of data one main area emerged; to promote women’s self-esteem with five areas: The nurse needs to use screening on all women, the nurse responds to woman’s partners aggressiveness, the nurse enables storytelling, the nurse need to support woman for increased independence, the nurse shows empathetic, humble attitude. Conclusion: The nurse experience difficulties in asking the same question to the women who have been exposed to violence in close relationships. Nurses´ need more education in order to meet these women who are exposed by their partner.

In March 2012, the Durban High Court found three accused guilty of murder on two of the accused’s parents. The Lotter case was covered extensively by the media, because of its unusual story: The two Lotter siblings claimed that they were brainwashed by the sister’s boyfriend as he had made them believe that he was the third son of God. As the siblings’ defences they decided to use the controversial defence of non-pathological criminal incapacity. This dissertation gives an extensive outline of case law that has covered this defence. While attempting to define this defence, the courts have limited its uses to such an extent, that it appears to be abolished. Viewpoints of academic authors have been considered to assist the reader in defining new borders for this defence. Redefinition is necessary in light of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. Concepts such as ‘coercive persuasion’ are explained in terms of psychological, psychiatric and legal backgrounds. Other countries have taken measures to restrict the use of coercive persuasion, specifically religious coercive persuasion. We therefore compare South Africa’s lack of legislation to those countries that have adopted anti-coercive persuasion legislation as the Constitution permits that foreign law may be taken into account when interpreting and developing the law. There is also a discussion on the role of expert evidence in a South African court, specifically the psychologist, as well as discussion on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Battered Partner/Spouse/ Wife syndrome in context of coercive persuasion. Coercive persuasion is viewed in terms of the defence of non-pathological criminal incapacity – as a prevailing factor that discredits the second (conative) leg of the capacity test: The ability to act in accordance with right and wrong. Defences such as automatism and private defence are also considered in context of coercive persuasion. By analysing the case of Cézanne Visser along with the other cases that considered the defence of non-pathological criminal incapacity, one is able to view that the Lotter case is not the first case that mentions a person coercively persuaded by her partner to commit crimes. After the discussion of the Lotter case (the facts and judgment are covered in detail), similarities are drawn between the two women that were coercively persuaded by their partners. An alternative judgment and sentence reveals that the Lotter case had an opportunity to develop the defence, in context of coercive persuasion, and in light of the Constitution, but failed to do so. The recommendations that follow are based on the defective dialogue that occurs between psychologists and psychiatrists, the unnecessary absence of expert evidence in court, the transformation of the defence of non-pathological criminal incapacity, a development of the term ‘coercive persuasion’ for purposes of the court when considering cases that deals with religious practices and the lack of legislative protection for women who murder their abusive husbands. / Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Public Law / unrestricted

Please read the abstract in the dissertation / Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Mercantile Law / unrestricted