Child and spouse abuse

1
Child and spouse abuse

• Relationship between institutions is key
• Line between familial, legal and medical
  jurisdiction constitutes the social construction
  of particular abuses
• The social perception of child abuse is
  historically new
• Highlighted by secondary systemic abuse and the
  cycle of violence research
• 44 of women in state prisons were abused
• 29 of abused had criminal records

2
Definition issues

• The idealist position Gils deprivation of
  equal rights
• Martins interference with optimal development
  critique
• Acts scales

3
Discovery

• Stephen Pfohls study of the social construction
  of child abuse