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dc.contributor.authorCallaghan, Jane E Men_UK
dc.contributor.authorAlexander, Joanne Hen_UK
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-05T00:02:14Z-
dc.date.available2019-04-05T00:02:14Z-
dc.date.issued2015en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/29227-
dc.description.abstractThis report focuses on children’s experiences of domestic violence, in families affected by domestic violence. Our report is concerned with children’s experiences in situations where the main perpetrator and victim of violence would be legally defined as two adults in an intimate relationship (not where the child is involved in ‘dating violence’). Research and professional practice that focuses on children as damaged witnesses to domestic violence tends to describe children as passive and helpless. Our study, based on interviews with more than a hundred children across four European countries, recognises the significant suffering caused to children who experience domestic violence. However, it also tells a parallel story, about the capacity of children who experience domestic violence to cope, to maintain a sense of agency, to be resilient, and to find ways of resisting violence, and build a positive sense of who they are. Our project highlights the implications of policy and professional discourses that position children as ‘damaged’ and as ‘witnesses’, but that do not recognise children’s capacity to experience domestic violence, make sense of it, and respond to it in ways that are agentic, resilient and resistant. Describing children as ‘witnesses’, ‘exposed to domestic violence’ and ‘damaged by it’ erodes children’s capacity to represent their experiences, and to articulate the ways that they cope with and resist such experiences. By focusing on children’s capacity for conscious meaning making and agency in relation to their experiences of domestic violence, we highlight the importance of recognising its impact on children, and their right to representation as victims in the context of domestic violence.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.relationCallaghan JEM & Alexander JH (2015) Understanding Agency and Resistance Strategies (UNARS): Children's experiences of domestic violence. European Commission. Northampton. https://ec.europa.eu/justice/grants/results/daphne-toolkit/content/unars-understanding-agency-and-resistance-strategies-children-situations-domestic-abuse_enen_UK
dc.rightsCopyright © The Authors assert their copyright to this reporten_UK
dc.subjectdomestic abuseen_UK
dc.subjectchildrenen_UK
dc.subjectresilienceen_UK
dc.subjectagencyen_UK
dc.subjectresistanceen_UK
dc.subjectUNARSen_UK
dc.titleUnderstanding Agency and Resistance Strategies (UNARS): Children's experiences of domestic violenceen_UK
dc.typeProject Reporten_UK
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Commissionen_UK
dc.citation.spage1en_UK
dc.citation.epage263en_UK
dc.citation.publicationstatusPublisheden_UK
dc.type.statusVoR - Version of Recorden_UK
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Commissionen_UK
dc.identifier.urlhttps://ec.europa.eu/justice/grants/results/daphne-toolkit/content/unars-understanding-agency-and-resistance-strategies-children-situations-domestic-abuse_enen_UK
dc.citation.date01/07/2015en_UK
dc.publisher.addressNorthamptonen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Northamptonen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Northamptonen_UK
dc.identifier.wtid913690en_UK
dc.contributor.orcid0000-0002-5241-3398en_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2015-07-01en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2019-04-01en_UK
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local.rioxx.authorCallaghan, Jane E M|0000-0002-5241-3398en_UK
local.rioxx.authorAlexander, Joanne H|en_UK
local.rioxx.projectProject ID unknown|European Commission (Horizon 2020)|en_UK
local.rioxx.freetoreaddate2019-04-01en_UK
local.rioxx.licencehttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved|2019-04-01|en_UK
local.rioxx.filenameCallaghan-EC report-2015.pdfen_UK
local.rioxx.filecount1en_UK
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