Working with Violence

233 Pages·1994·19.353 MB·English

by  Carol Lupton, Terry Gillespie (eds.)

PRACTICAL
SOCIAL WORK
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PRACTICAL SOCIAL WORK
Self-Help, Social Work and Empowerment Women and Social Work
Robert Adams Jalna Hanmer and Daphne Statham
Social Work and Mental Handicap Youth Work
David Anderson Tony Jeffs and Mark Smith (eds)
Beyond Casework Problems of Childhood and Adolescence
James G. Barber Michael Kerfoot and Alan Butler
Citizen Involvement Communication in Social Work
Peter Beresford and Suzy Croft Joyce Lishman
Practising Social Work Law Working with Violence
Suzy Braye and Michael Preston-Shoot Carol Lupton and Terry Gillespie (eds)
Social Workers at Risk
Social Work with Old People
Robert Brown, Stanley Bute and
Mary Marshall
Peter Ford
Applied Psychology for Social Workers
Social Work and Menta/Illness
Paula Nicolson and Rowan Bayne
Alan Butler and Colin Pritchard
Social Work and Europe Crisis Intervention in Social Services
Crescy Cannan, Lynn Berry and Kieran O'Hagan
Karen Lyons Social Work with Disabled People
Residential Work Michael Oliver
Roger Clough Care Management
Social Work and Child Abuse Joan Orme and Bryan Glastonbury
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Management in Social Work Malcolm Payne
Veronica Coulshed Working in Teams
Social Work Practice Malcolm Payne
Veronica Coulshed Working with Young Offenders
Social Work and Local Politics John Pitts
Paul Daniel and John Wheeler Effective Groupwork
Sociology in Social Work Practice Michael Preston-Shoot
Peter R. Day
Effective Probation Practice
Anti-Racist Social Work
Peter Raynor, David Smith and
Lena Dominelli
Maurice Vanstone
Working with Abused Children
Celia Doyle Social Work with the Dying and Bereaved
Carole R. Smith
Applied Research for Better Practice
Angela Everitt, Pauline Hardiker, Child Care and the Courts
Jane Littlewood and Audrey Mullender Carole R. Smith, Mary T. Lane and
Terry Walsh
Student Supervision in Social Work
Kathy Ford and Alan Jones Social Work and Housing
Gill Stewart and John Stewart
Working with Rural Communities
David Francis and Paul Henderson Focus on Families
Christine Stones
Children, their Families and the Law
Michael D. A. Freeman Anti-Discriminatory Practice
Family Work with Elderly People Neil Thompson
Alison Froggatt Dealing with Stress
Child Sexual Abuse Neil Thompson, Michael Murphy and
Danya Glaser and Stephen Frosh Steve Stradling
Computers in Social Work Working with Mental illness
Bryan Glastonbury Derek Tilbury
Working with Families Community Work
Gill Gorell Barnes Alan Twelvetrees
Women, Management and Care Working with Offenders
Cordelia Grimwood and Ruth Popplestone Hilary Walker and Bill Beaumont (eds)
Working with Violence
Edited by
Carol Lupton and Terry Gillespie
Foreword by Jalna Hanmer
M
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Contents
Foreword by Jalna Hanmer IX
Acknowledgements Xl
List of Abbreviations Xll
Introduction 1
1 Under Pressure: Rape Crisis Centres, Multi-
Agency Work and Strategies for Survival 15
Terry Gillespie
2 Professionalising the Response to Rape 39
Marian Foley
3 The British Refuge Movement: The Survival of an
Ideal? 55
Carol Lupton
4 Asian Women and Violence from Male Partners 75
Kish Bhatti-Sinclair
5 Social Work with Mothers whose Children have
been Sexually Abused 96
Claudia Bernard
6 Prostitution and the State: Towards a Feminist
Practice 113
Maggie O'Neill
7 Working with Men who Abuse Women and
Children 135
Stella Perrott
8 Violence Against Social Services Staff:
A Gendered Issue 153
Marianne Hester
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9 Violent Women 170
Joan Orme
References 190
Notes on Contributors 209
Index 211
Foreword
During the past twenty years women have raised the issue of
violence by men against women - and, more, often than not,
this is committed by men already known to the women
concerned. Women-centred practices have developed, but
the existence of agencies that listen to women and base their
professional practice on women's needs remains a partially
achieved goal. Why this is so is a crucial question.
The knowledge, understanding and responses of women's
agencies have yet to be fully accepted and integrated into
statutory services, although there are individual women in the
full range of agencies with a woman-centred or feminist
approach to their work. Working with violence in ways that
are sensitive to the subjectivity of women not only means
acknowledging the forms it can take - emotional, sexual and
physical - but also acknowledging how different social
locations can affect both experiences of violence and re
sponses to it. This book addresses both commonalities and
differences in women's experiences of violence and the
professional practices that are needed to respond appropri
ately to women and to men.
The full complexity of the problem is exposed by drawing
together experiences of providing services in both the volun
tary and statutory sectors with experiences of women service
users and professional staff. A focus on the interrelationship
of theories, policies and practices demonstrates how institu
tional issues adversely affect the quality of professional
intervention. Theory is a major site of struggle for profes
sional and institutional dominance.
By focusing on specific professional groups, an understand
ing of what is wrong, what needs to change, and how this can
be achieved, can be addressed. This book is to be warmly
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welcomed as it explores how to develop a more responsive,
and responsible, social welfare practice for women.
JALNER HANMER
Reader in Women's Studies and
Co-Convenor of the Research Unit
on Violence, Abuse and Gender
Relations, University of Bradford