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Practitioners' Constructions of Parent Abuse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2012

Judy Nixon
Judy Nixon*
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Sheffield Hallam University E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Drawing on data collected as part of a qualitative study on parent abuse, this article explores how child to parent violence is constructed by professionals working within the three related domains of youth justice, domestic violence and child protection. The article, a discussion piece, charts the continuities and contradictions contained within practitioners’ understandings of this form of family violence, focusing on how the problem emerges, the causal explanations employed and their impact on practice responses.

Keywords

Parent abusechild protectiondomestic violenceyouth justice
Type
Themed Section on Exploring Parent Abuse
Information
Social Policy and Society , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 229 - 239
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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