Introduction: Interrogating Harm and Abuse: A Lifespan Approach

Bowes, Alison; Daniel, Brigid

doi:10.1017/s1474746409990352

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“…The rationale for this is unclear. Hence the findings of the paper support related work that promotes a comparative and lifespan approach, as one means of interrogating policy and refining its assumptions (Bowes and Daniel, 2010;Daniel and Bowes, 2011;Johnson et al, 2010). Such an approach has implications for all three of the policies discussed; however the focus here has been on ASP.…”

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“…However, except that it coincides neither with mental incapacity nor with any other label traditionally attached to people by policies and services, the precise nature of the vulnerability understood to affect 'adults at risk' has still not been made clear. Furthermore, the assumptions of predecessor policies, themselves based on patchy empirical foundations, have been built on and refined with remarkably little comparison and cross-fertilisation of ideas from related fields (Bowes and Daniel, 2010;Johnson et al, 2010).…”

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Constructions of ‘vulnerability’ in comparative perspective: Scottish protection policies and the trouble with ‘adults at risk’

Sherwood-Johnson

2013

Disability & Society

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This paper places Scottish Adult Support and Protection (ASP) policy in the context of debates about the nature of 'vulnerability' and its usefulness as a defining concept in law and social policy. It examines the construction of 'adults at risk' in ASP policy, using a comparison with the construction of children in Scottish child protection policy, on the one hand, and women in Scottish domestic abuse policy, on the other, to illuminate the nature of the vulnerability that ASP considers itself to be addressing. It then problematises this construction, drawing both on the social model of disability and on an ethic of care. It concludes that current ASP policy remains underpinned by unhelpful assumptions about disabled people, older people and people with mental or physical health problems. A more inclusive understanding of vulnerability would be more empowering to these people and others, in policies concerned with mistreatment and abuse.  Ideas about vulnerability in ASP policy are more similar to ideas about children in child protection policy than ideas about women in domestic abuse policy. However, there are differences between ASP and child protection as well.  ASP policy could say more about oppression.  The three policies, and their separation from each other, are based on the idea that some people are 'vulnerable' and some people are not. It might be more helpful to challenge that idea. Points of interest

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Section: 'Adults At Risk' In Comparative Perspectivementioning

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Constructions of ‘vulnerability’ in comparative perspective: Scottish protection policies and the trouble with ‘adults at risk’

Sherwood-Johnson

2013

Disability & Society

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“…However, when addressing sexual violence of older women in the context of lifelong IPV, another layer of analysis seems necessary to broaden the perspective on the relationship dynamics within the dyad through the years. Our analysis is underpinned by a life course approach in which aging is viewed not as an age-related vulnerability but as one phase in the entire course of life (Bowes & Daniel, 2010;Braveman, 2014;Elder et al, 2003). This approach focuses on the sociohistorical process of families, couples, and individuals.…”

Section: The Use Of the Life Course Theoretical Framework To Understand The Narratives Of Sexually Abused Older Womenmentioning

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The Lived Experience of Older Women Who Are Sexually Abused in the Context of Lifelong IPV

Band‐Winterstein

Avieli

2021

Violence Against Women

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The present study explores the lived experience of older women who are sexually abused in the context of lifelong intimate partner violence (IPV). An interpretive phenomenological analysis was used, and semi-structured interviews were performed with 19 older women survivors of lifelong IPV and sexual violence. Three themes emerged: sexual violence shaping lifelong IPV, the occurrence of sexual violence in old age in the context of lifelong IPV, and cumulative insights and reflections on being a survivor of lifelong IPV and sexual violence. The transition to aging has a profound impact on the violent relationship dynamics and this should be considered in practical interventions.

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