Conceptualizing violence for health and medical geography

DeVerteuil, Geoffrey

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.01.018

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“…We found that the renegotiation of drug-related activities following displacement to other areas in the drug scene increased public drug use and exposure to violence while compromising the ability of PWUD to enact risk reduction, echoing similar findings from studies of the impacts of street policing practices undertaken elsewhere (Cooper et al, 2003; Small et al, 2006; Taylor & Brownstein, 2003). Our findings thus build upon previous research illustrating how structural violence embedded within law enforcement practices (in this case, area restrictions) frames the interpersonal violence experienced by drug-using populations (McNeil, Kerr, Lampkin & Small, 2015; Sarang et al, 2010), and how this is intertwined with health and specific places (in this case, ‘new’ drug scene areas) (DeVerteuil, 2015). Meanwhile, we found that participants arrested for low-level drug dealing to support drug dependence simply relocated to other areas.…”

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Area restrictions, risk, harm, and health care access among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada: A spatially oriented qualitative study

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Area restrictions prohibiting people from entering drug scenes or areas where they were arrested are a common socio-legal mechanism employed to regulate the spatial practices of people who use drugs (PWUD). To explore how socio-spatial patterns stemming from area restrictions shape risk, harm, and health care access, qualitative interviews and mapping exercises were conducted with 24 PWUD with area restrictions in Vancouver, Canada. Area restrictions disrupted access to health and social resources (e.g., HIV care) concentrated in drug scenes, while territorial stigma prevented PWUD from accessing supports in other neighbourhoods. Rather than preventing involvement in drug-related activities, area restrictions displaced these activities to other locations and increased vulnerability to diverse risks and harms (e.g., unsafe drug use practices, violence). Given the harms stemming from area restrictions there is an urgent need to reconsider this socio-legal strategy.

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Area restrictions, risk, harm, and health care access among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada: A spatially oriented qualitative study

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“…If, on the one hand, interpersonal violence is more noticeable, since the identities of the victims and the aggressors are more clearly evident, in most cases, structural neglect is almost imperceptible, and, when it is recognized, it is difficult to identify the individual responsible (6) . The primary caregiver, i.e., the family, responsible for vocalizing and satisfying the child's needs shares its role as the party responsible for such neglect with the State.…”

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Understanding child neglect in a gender context: a study performed in a Brazilian city

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Albuquerque

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Rev. esc. enferm. USP

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Objective:To describe the phenomenon of child neglect and understand it in a gender context. Method: Retrospective, quantitative, and exploratory study that analyzed reports of violence by a child and adolescent protection network in a Brazilian city. The theoretical and methodological basis applied was TIPESC (Theory of Nursing Praxical Intervention in Collective Health), with a gender emphasis. Results: Neglect of children under the age of ten represents more than half the reports received over all the years studied; more boys than girls suffered neglect and 41.4% of the reports of neglect involved children under than age of three; women were identified as being solely responsible in 67.9%, and as accessories in 17.3% of the incidents reported. Conclusion: Child neglect is a complex matter, the gender subordinate status inflicted on these children and their mothers who are responsible for their care underscore the social vulnerability of this group. DESCRIPTORS INTRODUCTIONBrazil has legal provisions protecting children and adolescents from all varieties of violence, including neglect. Among many other requirements, the 1988 Federal Brazilian Constitution most particularly governs rules on citizenship and personal dignity in order to promote the wellbeing of all, with no discrimination or age limit. Its text on the rights of citizens guarantees "education, health, nourishment, work, home, leisure, security, social security, maternity and child protection, and aid for the unprotected" (1) . Brazilian public policy relating to children and adolescents is protective and promotes healthy growth and development. The Child and Adolescent Statute, enacted in 1990, establishes that children and adolescents are entitled to all inherent human rights and must be guaranteed the means for their full development. Anyone who inflicts neglect upon, or any other offense against, the integrity of, children and adolescents, shall be penalized for such act or omission (2) . Brazil's National Policy for Morbidity and Mortality through Accident or Violence confers a material role upon the health sector to deal with these offenses, without prejudice to the liability of other sectors of society, and recommends joint action with a number of different social sectors (3) . In 2001, the city of Curitiba, capital of the State of Paraná, criated the Network for the Protection of Children and Adolescents at Risk of Violence. The network's regulations (4) , drawn up in 2004, established the types and nature of acts of violence against children and adolescents susceptible to confinement in municipal institutions. It defined the categories of violence as being interfamily violence (committed by a family member inside or outside the home), extrafamily violence (occurring outside the family circle, where the aggressor could be any individual), auto aggression (including suicide and conduct regarded as threatening to the individual's physical integrity), and fetal violence (committed by a pregnant woman against the fetus or by a third p...

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“…The wounds and embodied feelings of fear often result in the victim withdrawing and hiding from society and even from family and friends, causing loneliness and isolation and frequently resulting in confusion on behalf of the victim as to the boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. Some of these issues are picked up by DeVerteuil (2015) in his review of the relationship between violence and health. Sweet (2014) develops understandings of the relationship between the body and domestic violence in exploring biomedical constructions of the abused body.…”

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Understanding domestic violence in rural spaces

Little

2016

Progress in Human Geography

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This paper responds to calls for geographers to engage critically with the claim that 'violence sits in places' in the analysis of domestic violence in rural areas. It argues the need to develop conceptual understandings of the spatialized and embodied experience of domestic violence in the countryside. Drawing on debates about what counts as violence and on feminist work on domestic violence as intimate terrorism, the paper explores ways in which experiences of violence (and associated fear) are shaped by particular constructions and performances of rural masculinity and by the social and cultural relations that continue to characterize rural communities.

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Conceptualizing violence for health and medical geography

Cited by 55 publications

References 26 publications

Area restrictions, risk, harm, and health care access among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada: A spatially oriented qualitative study

Area restrictions, risk, harm, and health care access among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada: A spatially oriented qualitative study

Understanding child neglect in a gender context: a study performed in a Brazilian city

Understanding domestic violence in rural spaces

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