237 Elder Abuse Context and Theory in Finland, Ireland, Italy and Romania

O’Brien, Marita A.; O’Brien-Olinger, Sam; Boccaletti, Licia; Milianata, Salvatore; Caciula, Ioana; Laurola, Henriikka; Perttu, Sirkka; Kadzik-Bartoszewska, Anna; Canning, K.; Quinn, Seamus

doi:10.1093/ageing/afw159.208

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“…The abuse of the elderly within institutional settings is a widespread phenomenon (see Yon et al 2019) and is also familiar in the Nordic countries (e.g. O'Brien et al 2016;Botngård et al 2020). In this article, such abuse is considered in the context of the following case, which describes the emergence of evil in the geriatric psychiatry ward G1at, the Turku City Hospital.…”

Section: Unethical Behaviour In a Psychiatric Hospital In The City Of...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reaching Into the Dark Side of Organisations: The Banality and Emergence of Administrative Evil in the Light of Two Case Examples

Virtanen

Lehtonen

Raisio

2022

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This article uses the tools and distinctions derived from a twofold analysis to develop and refine the perception of administrative evil. First, the general problem of evil is discussed and nuanced, and second, two case examples from the Finnish context are examined and explained – the notion of so-called old boys’ networks and the case of unethical behaviour in a psychiatric hospital. The article defines administrative evil as actions by civil servants and government employees when they do what they are expected to do to fulfil their organisational roles and responsibilities without considering or recognising that they are engaging in or contributing to evil. Based on a conceptual analysis, the article suggests that administrative evil is a middle form between moral and natural evil. This view yields a solid basis for further analysis in which the concept of the banality of evil – as introduced by Hannah Arendt – provides valuable insights. The article is based upon the conviction that the concept of administrative evil offers explanatory power to understand and describe why and how people behave badly and even unethically in organisational contexts. In doing so, the article connects the concept of administrative evil to organisational studies and links the concept with the distinction between types of evil. The paper concludes that a major problem in theorising administrative evil is that the concept (as advanced by Adams and Balfour) has remained isolated and is not an organic part of modern organisation theory.

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Section: Unethical Behaviour In a Psychiatric Hospital In The City Of...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reaching Into the Dark Side of Organisations: The Banality and Emergence of Administrative Evil in the Light of Two Case Examples

Virtanen

Lehtonen

Raisio

2022

SJPA

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“…Thus, a complex range of factors—at the individual (perpetrator and victim), relationship, community and societal or systems levels—are considered to put people at risk of elder abuse (Figure 2). Identifying risk factors at these four nested and interacting levels helps to make sense of the many interventions and strategies which target these risk factors to reduce elder abuse (Bronfenbrenner, 1992; Krug et al, 2002; O'Brien et al, 2016; Schiamberg & Gans, 2000).…”

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confidence: 99%