The aim of this study was to analyze narratives of violence and explore how this relates to one's own violence. By means of the theory of differential associations and social learning theory, the development of violent behavior was understood and interpreted. Through a hermeneutic approach, seven life stories from the Stockholm Life-Course Project, were interpreted, where child maltreatment and own use of violence had occurred. The main results showed that the individuals experienced that the childhood had characterized their lives and that they developed a behavior of violence. The violence has been interpreted for strategic purposes but also of pure instinct. The results were problematized with the previous research. The study's conclusion is that exposure to child maltreatment constitutes a risk factor for developing violent behavior. However, the relationship is complex and no causal statements can be made based on our research method and our sample. / Vårt syfte med denna studie var att med utgångspunkt från narrativ analysmetod analysera berättelser om våldsutsatthet och dess relation till egen våldsutövning. Teorin om differentiella associationer och social inlärningsteori användes för att skapa förståelse för utvecklingen av ett våldsamt beteende. Med ett hermeneutiskt angreppssätt tolkades sju intervjuer från The Stockholm Life-Course Project. Studiens främsta resultat visade att individerna upplevt att barndomen präglat deras liv och att de anammat ett våldsbeteende. När de själva utövat våld beskrivs detta ha utförts strategiskt och målinriktat, men även instinktivt då våldet utförts på ren impuls. Tidigare forskning bidrog till att problematisera resultatet i förhållande till berättelser som strider mot ovanstående narrativ och de teoretiska resonemangen. Studiens slutsats är att utsatthet för våld under barndomen utgör en riskfaktor för att utveckla ett våldsamt beteende. Relationen är dock komplex och inga kausala uttalanden kan göras baserat på vår forskningsmetod och vårt urval.

Abstract The diploma thesis on the theme ?Factors influencing adolescents´ opinion on issues of the domestic violence? deals in the theoretical part with all important aspects of the domestic violence and stalking. The research part has been focused on adolescents aged 17 to 19 years living in Vysočina region, the research sample has consisted of 858 respondents. The aim of the thesis was to find out, by statistical methods on a statistically significant sample of adolescents, key factors influencing the adolescents´ opinion on the issue of the domestic violence. In relation to the aim of the thesis there were determined following hypotheses, which were tested on 5% significance level with six survey questions. Hypothesis 1: ?Statistically significant factor for the domestic violence among adolescents is their personal experience? was confirmed in four areas. Respondents having the personal experience with the domestic violence differ from the respondents without such experience in the following: they are more aware of a possibility of a partner´s violence at their age, they more refuse to tolerate the domestic violence, they better recognize a definition of the domestic violence and they are often aware of a possibility of a trans-generation transmission of the violence. In connection with this hypothesis it is important the finding, that 57 respondents (7%) have their personal experience with the domestic violence; 49 girls and 8 boys. Hypothesis 2: ?Statistically significant factor for the domestic violence among adolescents is the education? was not confirmed due to a low variability of responses and insufficient data to evaluate the hypothesis. Hypothesis 3: ?Statistically significant factor for the domestic violence among adolescents is the gender (women)? was confirmed in two areas. Girls differ from boys in the following: they are more aware of a possibility of the partner´s violence at their age and they more refuse to tolerate the domestic violence. The diploma thesis can serve as a source of current information related to the issue of the domestic violence, it provides an up-to-date data on the prevalence of the domestic violence in the adolescence and it presents information and opinions of adolescents on the domestic violence or partner relationship. The thesis can be used by professionals as well as lay public interested in the domestic violence and it can be a basis or a comparison for other studies and researches.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:40:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CHRISTIANE_SILVA_DIST.pdf: 721279 bytes, checksum: 40079c5b5b3c4bd50ebfc357a224c7dc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-08-30 / Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa / This study has an objective to describe and to understand the behavior of professionals in the health area towards the domestic violence situations with children and the importance of using the instruments to protect minors, such as the notification of authorities. To understand better the interconnections between domestic violence and child development, it was necessary to analyze the theme from the beginning of the cultural history path in the world until nowadays, through bibliography references. With the objective to reach an understanding of these professionals about this theme we used a group of problem situations concerning many different forms of domestic violence, and these situations were adapted by a pilot research. The study was done in a Children s Public Hospital in São Paulo City, with 27 professionals from different health departments, which attend in the infirmary and in the emergency room. The analysis of the information allowed observes the understanding and the behavior of these professionals facing the dynamic of the domestic violence phenomenon expressions. In order of an exploratory research, the data reveal how the health professionals faced this phenomenon on a daily basis, highlighting the search of interdisciplinary team resources to break down the relevant factor of the families silence conspiracy . / O presente estudo teve como objetivo descrever e compreender atitudes de profissionais de saúde frente a situações de violência doméstica contra a criança, enfatizando a importância da utilização de instrumentos de proteção à infância, tal como a notificação. Para melhor entender as inter-relações da violência doméstica e do desenvolvimento infantil, buscou-se situar o tema em seu percurso histórico cultural até os dias atuais, por meio de breve revisão bibliográfica. Utilizou-se um conjunto de questões formuladas a partir de situações problemas enfocando as diversas faces da violência doméstica, as quais foram ajustadas a partir de uma aplicação em uma pesquisa-piloto, constituinte de um trabalho mais amplo realizado em Hospital Geral. Conduziu-se o estudo em um Hospital Infantil Público na cidade de São Paulo, com 27 profissionais de diversas áreas da saúde, atuantes na enfermaria geral e no pronto-socorro. A análise das informações possibilitou observar como esse profissionais compreendem e agem diante das dinâmicas de expressão da violência doméstica. Neste sentido, enquanto uma pesquisa exploratória, os dados obtidos permitiram descrever como esses profissionais enfrentam cotidianamente tais situações, destacando-se a busca de recursos em equipe interdisciplinar perante a importância da ruptura do complô do silêncio entre as famílias.

This Master thesis deals with the subject of aid to women who are victims of Intimate Partner Violence, in the context of the recently passed Victims of Crime Act. The aim of the theoretical part is to describe the basic specifics of intimate partner violence and problems that arise from these specifics for the victims and for the practice of organizations and individuals helping the victims. In the subsequent part the options of aid to and protection of the victims within the criminal proceeding are discussed. The last chapter of the theoretical part covers the legislation context of giving aid to victims, with a special emphasis on the Victims of Crime Act and its possible contribution to solve problems related to this. The empirical part consists of an analysis of qualitative interviews and questionnaires with experts with at least five years of practice in aiding victims of intimate partner violence. The objective of the practical part is to deliver recommendations how to activate victims. The research aims to verify whether the problems of activation of the victims described in both domestic and foreign literature correspond to the practice of experts, what strategies have proved successful in reaction to those problems and in the end to what extent the law on victims can help in this...

The research objective of this diploma theses is to deeply understand the proces of policy change in the field of prevention and fight against domestic violence in the Czech republic. The aim of the research part of the theses is to identify the main resources and factors of the policy and belief change, which determine the policies in the field of prevention and fight against the domestic violence. This means the orientation among key policy change actors and identification of advocacy coalitions that enforced policy changes. The research design was case study based on the semistructured interviews with experts and key actors. The Advocacy Coalition Framework has proved to be useful in drawing attention to the notion of changing values and belies systems as key source of policy change. It also highlighted the need to take into account factors external to the policy subsystem under investigation. Potential usefulness of the Framework can be found in further application to the field of human rights issues in the Czech republic.

The diploma thesis "Analysis of the current system solutions for domestic violence in the Czech Republic, focusing on the care of children as witnesses" investigates the system of dealing with cases of domestic violence where children are witnesses of such violence. The paper maps processes and work methods with individual family members who are affected by domestic violence, further evaluates the adequacy and effectiveness of these procedures and also the impact of these procedures on individual family members. Individual actors who may have influence on the issue, their relations, cooperation possibilities and their potential in shaping the policy were also examined and evaluated. At last but not least, the thesis investigates communication channels that are available to the involved actors and their effectiveness. The presented thesis is mainly based on studies of available and relevant sources, on information from interviews with personnel of the social and legal children protection institutions and on answers provided by staff of the social and legal children protection organs in the survey. The state pays considerable attention to domestic violence, despite its latency and private character. The origin of the National Action Plan for Prevention of Domestic Violence for 2011-2014 proves its...

This dissertation intervenes in debates in Media Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Canadian Immigration Studies, and Critical Race Studies to explore how shifting news media and political representations of Muslim families reflect the complexities of what it means to be Canadian beyond holding citizenship. In the post-9/11 era, the Muslim family has re-emerged in Canadian English-language news media and Canadian political debates as a site of inherent violence. Drawing on orientalist narratives of the Muslim family, news media and political conversations tend to frame these homes as being headed by patriarchal fathers and oppressed mothers, and children seeking to break from families and traditions, yet always holding the potential to become violent themselves. Even though Canada identifies as a multicultural nation, Muslim families are often presented in media as undeserving of the rights of Canadian citizenship, and even deserving of state violence. While news media play a key role in reproducing orientalist framings of Muslim families, news media can also take the government to task when it comes to the violation of immigrant and racialized Canadians’ rights as citizens. Some news media coverage counter orientalist narratives by producing “positive” representations of Muslim families, however, these “positive” representations frequently frame Muslims who are worthy of the rights of citizenship as adhering to heteronormative family dynamics, productive citizenship, and normative Western gender roles and kinship formations. These “positive” portrayals produce varying representations of Muslim families, but such framings can also labour in the way of reifying Canada’s multicultural ideals and Canada’s idea of itself as “civilized.” Drawing on the news media coverage of the family of Maher Arar, the Khadrs, and the Shafias, I argue that such representations still produce the norms of the settler-colonial Canadian nation, where some racialized bodies, in this case Muslim families, can be granted the rights of Canadian citizenship if they are able to proximate normative Canadian kinship formations. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / In the wake of 9/11, many Canadian English-language news media have framed Muslim men as violent and Muslim women as oppressed. This dissertation analyzes the shifting Canadian news media portrayals of the Muslim family. Muslim homes in Canada are often portrayed as spaces for the perpetuation of violence that threatens the Canadian nation. Simultaneously, news media also portray some Muslim homes as spaces of purportedly “good” Canadian citizens, if these Muslim families are able to conform to Canadian “values.” I examine how Canadian news media mobilize heteronormativity, middle-class status, productive citizenship, among others, to portray some Muslims as ascribing to Canadian values, and therefore worthy of the rights of citizenship. Drawing on the news media coverage of the cases of Maher Arar and Monia Mazigh, Ahmed and Omar Khadr and Maha Elsamnah, and Mohammed Shafia, Rona Mohammed, and Tooba Yahya, I analyze how Muslims who are viewed as not assimilating to Western ideals of family are deemed as undeserving of the rights of citizenship, and, in addition, may even deserve violence.