Is Anyone Listening?: Accountability and Women Survivors of Domestic Violence

by Aris,Rosemary

• ISBN13: 9780415259460
• ISBN10: 0415259460
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-10-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book paints an overall picture of how domestic violence is being dealt with today and how contemporary concerns about service-user participation in improving services can be put into real and lasting effect.

Author Biography

Audrey Mullender is Professor of Social Work and Director of the Centre for the Study of Safety and Wellbeing at the University of Warwick.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(4)
PART 1 Rethinking service user movements in relation to women survivors of violence	5	(36)
Women survivors of domestic violence as service users: the silenced group	7	(19)
The obstacles to empowerment: what kind of power for women?	26	(15)
PART 2 Women's views and voices in domestic violence services	41	(34)
What abused women think of the services they receive	43	(15)
How much do agencies listen to domestic violence survivors?	58	(17)
PART 3 How to engage in survivor participation and consultation	75	(74)
How to do it: empowerment and stigma	77	(12)
How to do it: policies, sensitivities and resources to make participation effective	89	(20)
Practical ways forward and innovation, including domestic violence survivors' forums	109	(16)
Further innovatory practice: Women's Aid, women's advocacy organisations and campaigns	125	(6)
Other methods of survivor participation and getting agencies to take action	131	(14)
Conclusion	145	(4)
EPILOGUE	149	(14)
Words from women survivors of violence	151	(9)
Womenspeak: a parliamentary Internet consultation with domestic violence survivors	160	(3)
Nicola Harwin
Bibliography	163	(11)
Index	174