Children’s Everyday Lives Shadowed by Stalking: Postseparation Stalking Narratives of Finnish Children and Women

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 830-845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Nikupeteri ◽  
Merja Laitinen

This qualitative study discusses postseparation stalking and its implications in children’s everyday lives. Based on narratives of 13 Finnish children and 20 women, the research fills a gap in the knowledge regarding the psychosocial, emotional, and physical impacts of stalking on children when their mothers are stalked by a former partner. It identifies four forms of impact: (a) an atmosphere of fear and feelings of insecurity; (b) disguised acts of stalking and the father’s performance of care, love, and longing; (c) exploitation of children in stalking; and (d) physical abuse, acts of violence, and threats of death. The findings indicate that stalking severely constrains children’s everyday lives and strengthens, yet often distorts, the mother–child bond. The study concludes that in cases where mothers are stalked, professionals in the social and health services, law enforcement, and criminal justice should view the children, too, as victims and construct supportive social relationships for women and children facing threatening life situations.

Author(s):  
Daniel Bremer ◽  
Daniel Lüdecke ◽  
Olaf von dem Knesebeck

This paper investigates the associations between social relationships, age and the use of preventive health services among German adults. Data stem from the German Ageing Survey (10,324 respondents). The use of preventive health services was assessed by asking for regular use of flu vaccination and cancer screening in the past years. Predictors of interest were structural (having a partner, size of the social network) and functional aspects of social relationships (perceived informational support) and age. Logistic regression models were used to measure the associations between preventive health services use and these predictors. Self-perceived health, gender and education were considered as covariates. Having a partner (OR = 1.20, 95% CI: 1.07–1.34) and perceived informational support (OR = 1.38, 95% CI: 1.13–1.69) were associated with a higher probability of getting flu vaccination regularly over the past years. Informational support (OR = 1.42, 95% CI: 1.17–1.72) and having a partner (OR = 1.57, 95% CI: 1.41–1.75) were positively associated with regular cancer screening over the past years. Associations between the size of the social network and use of preventive health services were not statistically significant. Associations between the use of preventive health services and social relationships varied by age. Structural and functional aspects of social relationships may support preventive health behavior. To increase preventive health behavior and the use of preventive health services, it is necessary to integrate information on social relationships into routine care and to strengthen sources of social support.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 843
Author(s):  
Hulman Siregar ◽  
Rakhmat Bowo Suharto

Corruption has occurred in all sectors of activity in State Institutions has even been categorized as an extraordinary crime. This condition has a negative impact on the implementation of sustainable national development to improve the welfare of the community. Because the state budget funds both central and regional that can be used to build infrastructure facilities for public services such as health services, education, social assistance in the form of food and clothing. Become reduced due to corruption. The mindset and pattern of action in dealing with corruption crime requires a leap of change so that the implementation of law enforcement in combating corruption through hand-catching operations can run effectively in accordance with the laws and regulations.Keywords: Planned; Accurate; Accountable; Responsible.


2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 3069
Author(s):  
Khesia Kelly Cardoso Matos ◽  
Susanne Pinheiro Costa e Silva ◽  
Juciara Karla de Souza Lima

RESUMOObjetivo: compreender as representações sociais de gestantes e puérperas encarceradas sobre o gestar enquanto vivendo em Colônias Penais. Método: trata-se de estudo qualitativo, embasado no referencial teórico-metodológico das Representações Sociais, com 19 mulheres encarceradas em Colônias Penais. Utilizaram-se, como instrumentos de coleta de dados, um formulário e entrevistas grupais em que se analisaram os dados pelos softwares SPSS e Iramuteq. Resultados: marcaram-se as representações da gestação durante o encarceramento pela ausência de serviços e infraestrutura, com pré-natal falho e dificuldades para a realização de exames, além da dicotomia entre querer estar com o filho, mas ter que criá-lo em tal ambiente. Caracteriza-se gestar na prisão pela não aceitação, gerando-se atitudes de negação, embora o afeto pelo filho acompanhe as presidiárias e acalente essa realidade. Conclusão: evidenciou-se a necessidade de repensar o atendimento de saúde na prisão contribuindo-se para a efetivação de políticas públicas e garantindo-se os direitos daqueles que se encontram atrás das grades, especialmente mulheres e crianças. Descritores: Representações Sociais; Gravidez; Prisões; Afeto; Carência Psicossocial; Família.ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the social representations of pregnant and puerperal women imprisoned about gestating while living in Colonial Penins. Method: this is a qualitative study, based on the theoretical and methodological reference of the Social Representations, with 19 women incarcerated in Colonial Penins. As a data collection instrument, a form and group interviews were used in which the data was analyzed by SPSS and Iramuteq software. Results: pregnancy representations were made during incarceration due to lack of services and infrastructure, with prenatal failure and difficulties to perform exams, besides the dichotomy between wanting to be with the child, but having to create it in such a way environment. It is characterized to gestate in the prison by the non acceptance, generating attitudes of negation, although the affection by the son accompanies the inmates and cherishes this reality. Conclusion: the need to rethink health care in prison was evidenced, contributing to the implementation of public policies and guaranteeing the rights of those behind bars, especially women and children. Descriptors: Social Representations; Pregnancy; Prisons; Affection; Psychosocial Deprivation; Family. RESUMEN Objetivo: comprender las representaciones sociales de gestantes y puérperas encarceladas sobre el gestar mientras vivía en Colonias Penales. Método: se trata de un estudio cualitativo, basado en el referencial teórico-metodológico de las Representaciones Sociales, con 19 mujeres encarceladas en Colonias Penales. Se utilizaron, como instrumentos de recolección de datos, un formulario y entrevistas grupales en que se analizaron los datos por los softwares SPSS e Iramuteq. Resultados: se marcaron las representaciones de la gestación durante el encarcelamiento por la ausencia de servicios e infraestructura, con prenatal fallido y dificultades para la realización de exámenes, además de la dicotomía entre querer estar con el hijo, pero tener que crearlo en tal medio ambiente. Se caracteriza por gestar en la cárcel por la no aceptación, generándose actitudes de negación, aunque el afecto por el hijo acompaña a las presidiarias y acalenta esa realidad. Conclusión: se evidenció la necesidad de repensar la atención de salud en la cárcel contribuyéndose a la efectivación de políticas públicas y garantizándose los derechos de aquellos que se encuentran detrás de las rejas, especialmente mujeres y niños. Descriptores: Representación Sociales; Embarazo; Prisiones; Afecto; Carencia Psicosocial; Familia. 


2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-238
Author(s):  
Andrea Lutz

Abstract This article studies the impact of the social position on the health trajectories of children who follow a therapy for overweight or obesity management. Based on a qualitative study conducted within a Swiss hospital with 29 families, the author explains how the social position influences children’s relationship to health norms. The study results show that children belonging to wealthy families internalize more easily the therapeutic prescriptions in their everyday lives than the children from underprivileged families.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eigen Justisi

ABSTRAK Masalah kekerasan seksual di Indonesia, khususnya terhadap wanita dan anak perlu mendapat perhatian lebih intensif dan serius lagi. Hal ini mengingat terdapat kecenderungan bahwa korban wanita dan anak sering terabaikan oleh lembagalembaga kompeten dalam system peradilan pidana, yang seharusnya memberikan perhatian dan perlindungan yang cukup berdasarkan hukum. Dalam penelitian ini peneliti menggunakan metode pendekatan sosiologi hukum yaitu pendekatan yang menganalisis tentang bagaimana reaksi dan interaksi yang terjadi ketika sistem norma itu bekerja di dalam masyarakat yang berkaitan dengan efektivitas penegakan hukum tindak pidana perkosaan dari putusan hakim dihubungkan dengan Undang-Undang No 13 Tahun 2006 tentang perlindungan saksi dan korban. Berdasarkan penelitian yang dilakukan, bahwa pemberian hukuman pidana hanya dibatasi dengan maksimal berdasarkan ketentuan undang-undang. Oleh karena tidak adanya batas minimal, maka dalam praktiknya pemberian hukuman dalam kasus perkosaan sangat jauh dari harapan korban. Tak jarang hakim hanya memberikan hukuman misalnya, 5 tahun/ 8 tahun penjara. Kata kunci: efektivitas, perkosaan, korban, hakim The problem of sexual violence in Indonesia, especially against women and children need more intensive attention and serious again. This is because there is a tendency that the victims women and children are often neglected by the competent institutions in the criminal justice system, which should provide sufficient attention and protection under the law. In this study, researchers used a method of approach to the sociology of law that is the approach that analyzes of how the reactions and interactions that occur when a system of norms at work in the community with regard to the effectiveness of law enforcement of the criminal act of rape of a verdict is connected by Act No. 13 of 2006 concerning protection of witnesses and victims. Based on the research conducted, that the provision of criminal penalties is limited to the maximum under the terms of the law. Hence the absence of a minimum limit, then in practice the provision of punishment in cases of rape is very far from the expectations of victims. Not infrequently judges only impose penalties, for example, 5 years / 8 years in prison. Keywords: effectiveness, rape, vicims, judges.


Author(s):  
Helene Oldrup ◽  
Signe Frederiksen

This chapter seeks to build on and extend the increasingly child-oriented perspective on prisoners’ children. It does so by focusing on the social exclusion experienced by this particular group of children, as social relationships are crucial to child well-being. The study is set in Denmark, where it is estimated that five to six per cent of every birth cohort experiences parental imprisonment during childhood and that the share of children facing this strain is similar to that of children taken into care or living in poverty. Thus, the chapter examines whether the child is socially excluded from important relationships in children’s lives, and less on the child’s encounter with the criminal justice system. This is done not only by adopting a child-centred perspective, but also by using children as informants in a survey from a representative sample of Danish children of prisoners.


2020 ◽  
pp. 002087282096219
Author(s):  
Hadijah Mwenyango

About 70.8 million individuals are displaced worldwide, and of these, 25.9 million are refugees. Accessibility to health care is a central aspect of the well-being of refugees. This article examines the communication, institutional and socio-cultural challenges to access and use of health services among refugee women and children and conceptualises the social work position in tackling such issues. The study used mixed quantitative and qualitative methods. The findings indicate complex experiences of refuge and ongoing gendered oppression and vulnerability. This research proposes a rights-based social work approach to addressing impediments at micro, meso and macro levels.


Author(s):  
Dennis Eversberg

Based on analyses of a 2016 German survey, this article contributes to debates on ‘societal nature relations’ by investigating the systematic differences between socially specific types of social relations with nature in a flexible capitalist society. It presents a typology of ten different ‘syndromes’ of attitudes toward social and environmental issues, which are then grouped to distinguish between four ideal types of social relationships with nature: dominance, conscious mutual dependency, alienation and contradiction. These are located in Pierre Bourdieu’s (1984) social space to illustrate how social relationships with nature correspond to people’s positions within the totality of social relations. Understanding how people’s perceptions of and actions pertaining to nature are shaped by their positions in these intersecting relations of domination – both within social space and between society and nature – is an important precondition for developing transformative strategies that will be capable of gaining majority support in flexible capitalist societies.


Edupedia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Khulusinniyah ◽  
Farhatin Masruroh

The social-emotionaldevelopment of children is important to be developed from an early age. The emotionaldevelopment in early childhood, takes place simultaneously with their social development. Even there is claim that their emotional development is influenced by their social development. Itcaused by the emotional reactions displayed by early childhood as a response to the social relationships that they live with other people. The emotional development of early childhood can also affect the sustainability of social relationships. Stimulation is an important thing to give by early childhood educators and parents so they can optimize their social emotion development. With this treatment, they can grow into the life ready person in facing the complex future.


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