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- Bakketeig, Elisiv, et al.
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Deliberating the conditions for implementing the Barnahus model : Knowledge drawn from an institutional analysis
- 2024
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Ingår i: Justice and recovery for victimised children : Institutional tensions in Nordic and European Barnahus models - Institutional tensions in Nordic and European Barnahus models. - 9783031532320 - 9783031532337 ; , s. 249-277
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Referring to the PROMISE network’s European Barnahus quality standards, this concluding chapter further explores the institutional tensions identified in the previous chapters. Although these standards are important for securing the Barnahus model’s authenticity in the ongoing diffusion, they do not sufficiently address the possible tensions and dilemmas involved. We argue that if the Barnahus model is to reach its full potential, challenges must be identified in order to develop ways to solve them in relation to the various national systems where the model is implemented. Otherwise, the Barnahus model may not reach its full potential within different national contexts, since governments may use the model mainly as a symbol that something is being done instead of a source for more fundamental systemic changes.
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- Johansson, Susanna, et al.
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Diffusion and translation of the Barnahus model through the lens of institutional tensions
- 2024
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Ingår i: Justice and recovery for victimised children : Institutional tensions in Nordic and European Barnahus models - Institutional tensions in Nordic and European Barnahus models. - 9783031532337 - 9783031532320 ; , s. 1-42
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since the Barnahus model was first introduced in Iceland in 1998, it has spread to a number of European countries, both within and beyond the Nordic region. This introductory chapter has two main objectives: The first is to describe the further diffusion of the Barnahus model throughout Europe and to exemplify various translations at local levels; the second is to set the framework for the book by introducing the concepts of institutional tensions and logics. We introduce the concepts involved in understanding the Barnahus model in the light of its ongoing implementation within different institutional contexts and related to this book’s four main themes: (1) legal tensions, (2) organisational tensions, (3) professional-ethical tensions, and (4) balancing institutional tensions.
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- Johansson, Susanna, et al.
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Included on paper, excluded in practice: or vice versa? : Formal and actual target groups of Barnahus across jurisdictions
- 2024
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Ingår i: Justice and recovery for victimised children : Institutional tensions in Nordic and European Barnahus models - Institutional tensions in Nordic and European Barnahus models. - 9783031532337 - 9783031532320 ; , s. 167-192
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The ongoing diffusion and European standardisation of the Barnahus model has involved a general expansion of the Barnahus target group, and variations in terms of inclusion and exclusion of different groups of children, such as those who have experienced domestic violence and those who have exhibited sexually harmful behaviour. Based on policy documents, reports, standards, and regulations from Sweden, Norway, and the European policy level, this chapter analyses how the positioning of children—as aggrieved parties, vulnerable individuals, and family members—is manifested in Barnahus regulations and case processing across jurisdictions, using Sweden and Norway as in-depth cases. The chapter shows how the positioning of children affects who is granted access to Barnahus (and to which services) during the different stages of case processing.
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- Ponnert, Lina, et al.
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Accumulated Silence When “Passing the Buck” : Organisational Tensions in Child Welfare Investigations.
- 2024
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Ingår i: Justice and Recovery for Victimised Children : Institutional Tensions in Nordic and European Barnahus Models - Institutional Tensions in Nordic and European Barnahus Models. - 9783031532320 - 9783031532337 ; , s. 113-139
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden’s child welfare services are characterised by intra-organisational specialisation and collaboration with Barnahus as a standard procedure in cases of child abuse. This chapter examines what happens with social workers’ risk assessments when they are both filtered internally at different units and in relation to Barnahus and a criminal law-oriented logic. Various organisational tensions are discussed, and how they might affect child welfare investigations and practice related to suspected violence. When children disclose violence, the concept of “accumulated silence” is applied to illustrate the multi-layered juridification process, where cases are often passed on between units and professionals. The analysis is based on interviews with social workers from different municipalities in Sweden.
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- Stefansen, Kari, et al.
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Institutional barriers to medical examinations in Barnahus
- 2024
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Ingår i: Justice and recovery for victimised children : Institutional tensions in Nordic and European Barnahus models - Institutional tensions in Nordic and European Barnahus models. - 9783031532337 - 9783031532320 ; , s. 87-112
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although ensuring that victimised children receive timely medical health assessments is among the key aims of Barnahus, this goal has proven difficult to achieve in Norway, the empirical case examined in this chapter. Few children are offered a medical examination, and most examinations that are performed primarily serve a role in the “penal track” of the Barnahus model. Based on data from two national evaluation studies, we identify three types of institutional barriers that hamper the role of medical examinations in the “welfare track” of the model: established routines, regulatory issues, and a lack of resources. The concept of institutional inertia is helpful in understanding the institutional resistance towards change that often characterises the present situation.
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