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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Children's views on children’s participation in family law proceedings
- 2012
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Drawing upon a Swedish study of vulnerable children as social actors in family law proceedings this paper explores how children themselves approach and negotiate the issue of participation. The discussion is based upon thematically structured interviews with children whose father has been violent to their mother and who have met with social workers in the context of a legal dispute about custody, residence or contact. The analysis reconstructs how these children have dealt with encounters with social workers and to what extent they used the space for action they perceived that they had. What children are doing in this situation – that they all are somehow prepared for– can be seen as intentional at least to some extent. Therefore the concept of strategy seems appropriate: actions and non-action are chosen for a purpose. Children’s strategies are outlined and it is discussed how different child strategies may be linked to children’s perspectives on participation expressed in these interviews, and what these links between children’s perspectives and their strategies can tell us about children’s participation in the context of a difficult life situation. One tentative conclusion that can be drawn from the analysis outlined above is that this empirical material points in the same direction as some previous studies in the field. Children in the sample tend to place less emphasis on shared decision- making and stress the right to decide “for yourself”. This tendency can perhaps be linked to the experience of previous violence and/or oppression by parents (fathers) and /or oppression by social workers. Another observation is that it is children who describe explicit or implicit protest against the ways in which the conversations with them have been carried out, that are the children who almost exclusively draw upon the principle of participation when talking about this issue.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Children’s voices, children’s agency and the development of knowledge about children exposed to intimate partner violence
- 2016. - 1
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Ingår i: Interpersonal Violence. - London : Routledge. - 9781138644915 ; , s. 140-152
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter, I argue that children’s voices and perspectives constitute a very fruitful point of departure in knowledge development in the field of intimate partner violence (IPV). Furthermore, that research and practice need to draw on a “double view” on these children as both objects for adults’ care, protection and support, and as social actors with their own perspectives, preferences and agendas.First, I review the extent to which it is possible to identify current research on intimate partner violence focusing on children’s voices and children’s agency, and outline a typology of different kinds of research on children exposed to intimate partner violence, as well as the “double view” on children exposed to intimate partner violence.Second, I discuss three different empirical areas to illustrate the point about possible knowledge gains. The first area is children’s exposure to intimate partner violence, specifically children’s ways of tackling their situation and experiences. This part of the discussion includes elaborations of the concept of “witnessing” or exposure to IPV, the relationship between the effects of exposure and children’s creation of meaning, and children’s agency. The second area is risk assessment and it is argued that such assessments must include not just immediate danger (or perpetrator dangerousness) but also the long-term risk associated with emotional violence, retraumatization or undermining of recovery, as well as the child’s sense of security. The third area is the critical assessment of support and treatment interventions, including perspectives on children exposed to IPV as services users, and to what extent their service user perspectives are included in the development and evaluations of interventions.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Children’sviews on children’s participation in family law proceedings : PaperPresented at the 2012 Joint World Conference on Social Work andSocial Development: Action and Impact, Stockholm, Sweden 8-12 July 2012; Symposium 12:Swedish Standing Symposium Social Work Responses to Vulnerable Groups
- 2012
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Drawing upon a Swedish study of vulnerable children as social actors in family law proceedings this paper explores how children themselves approach and negotiate the issue of participation. The discussion is based upon thematically structured interviews with children whose father has been violent to their mother and who have met with social workers in the context of a legal dispute about custody, residence or contact. The analysis reconstructs how these children have dealt with encounters with social workers and to what extent they used the space for action they perceived that they had. What children are doing in this situation – that they all are somehow prepared for– can be seen as intentional at least to some extent. Therefore the concept of strategy seems appropriate: actions and non-action are chosen for a purpose. Children’s strategies are outlined and it is discussed how different child strategies may be linked to children’s perspectives on participation expressed in these interviews, and what these links between children’s perspectives and their strategies can tell us about children’s participation in the context of a difficult life situation. One tentative conclusion that can be drawn from the analysis outlined above is that this empirical material points in the same direction as some previous studies in the field. Children in the sample tend to place less emphasis on shared decision- making and stress the right to decide “for yourself”. This tendency can perhaps be linked to the experience of previous violence and/or oppression by parents (fathers) and /or oppression by social workers. Another observation is that it is children who describe explicit or implicit protest against the ways in which the conversations with them have been carried out, that are the children who almost exclusively draw upon the principle of participation when talking about this issue.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Contact, Shared Parenting, and Violence : Children as Witnesses of Domestic Violence in Sweden
- 2011
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Ingår i: International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family. - : Oxford University Press. - 1360-9939 .- 1464-3707. ; 25:2, s. 165-183
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As in many other countries in the West, Swedish policy and law presupposes shared parenting and a high degree of parental co-operation after separation or divorce. Parents are expected to share the legal responsibility for the child and face-to-face contact is presumed to be in the best interests of the child. It was not until the new millennium that intimate partner violence was placed upon the policy agenda to any greater extent in the field of family law. The legislation has recently been revised with the aim of ensuring a higher degree of safety for both abused parents and children. The re-definition of children exposed to violence as crime victims seems to be a key to these changes. In many ways, the development regarding intimate partner violence represents a significant change of direction in Swedish policy in the area of family law. However, it is argued that policy makers need to pay more attention to the implementation of safety-oriented reforms. The discussion demonstrates how three social positions available for children in this context – the witness, the victim, and the competent participant – form a relational pattern full of tensions that creates challenges for everyday professional practice. The article highlights how the ambiguity in the perspective on children, constructing them as both ‘becomings’ and ‘beings’ may undermine policy intentions to create a higher degree of safety in the field of family law for this particular group of vulnerable children.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-, et al.
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Delaktighet i familjerättsprocesser för barn som upplevt pappas våld mot mamma
- 2006
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Barn som upplevt pappas våld mot mamma kan i dagens Sverige ses som brottsoffer. Tvister om vårdnad, boende och umgänge ska lösas med barnens bästa för ögonen och i enlighet med barnkonventionen beakta barns inställning med hänsyn till deras ålder och mognad. I papret vill vi belysa dessa frågor i dialog med såväl barndomssociologins diskussioner om barns aktörskap som samtida diskussioner om barn som upplever mäns våld mot kvinnor i sin familj. Syftet är vidare att problematisera frågan om barns delaktighet utifrån frågan om ’barn’ som en social position och ett kulturellt fenomen i samhällets ålders- och generationsordning och vilken betydelse detta kan få för professionellas tolkningar och bemötande av barn som upplever pappas våld mot mamma. De empiriska exemplen hämtas från ett pågående explorativt forskningsprojekt om barn som sociala aktörer i möten med vårdnads-, boende-, umgängesutredare.
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Delmål 4 : Mäns våld mot kvinnor ska upphöra
- 2015
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Ingår i: Forskarrapporter till Jämställdhetsutredningen. - Stockholm : Fritzes. - 9789138243558 ; , s. 235-337
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- Eriksson, Maria, 1969-
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Deltagarnas röster om BRA modellen
- 2019. - 2
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Ingår i: Barns rätt som anhöriga. - Stockholm : Allmänna Barnhuset. - 9789186759179 ; , s. 19-33
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