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- Title
Silencing Violations in State Care.
- Authors
Stanley, Elizabeth
- Abstract
Drawing upon extensive documentary analysis of 105 'cases', as well as 45 in-depth interviews with legal claimants, this article exposes how silence permeates the lives of those harmed in New Zealand's state care system. It demonstrates how violations within state institutions have been silenced as a result of children's structural disadvantage, socio-cultural denigration and coping attempts. This silence consolidated with perpetrator and institutional strategies for impunity. Into adulthood, silence has endured for victims as a result of psychological, socio-cultural and institutional barriers. These findings demonstrate that any successful disclosure on violations against children is contingent on the respectful actions of institutional, social and personal 'listeners'.
- Subjects
VIOLENCE; SILENCING the self theory (Social psychology); SOCIOCULTURAL factors; CRIMINAL complaints; NEW Zealand economy
- Publication
New Zealand Sociology, 2016, Vol 31, Issue 1, p9
- ISSN
0112-921X
- Publication type
Article