Organisational challenges in the United Kingdom's post-disaster 'crisis support' work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3897382 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Howard Davis (0000-0002-9794-3325, Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice Edge Hill University United Kingdom, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-76 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disasters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/disa.12187 |
| PMID | 26989002 |
| OpenAlex | W2297538069 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 44 |
Local authorities in the United Kingdom are required to 'lead' multi-agency humanitarian responses to major disasters. Concerns mounted in the late twentieth century that responses to people bereaved in the immediate aftermath of such events at best failed to meet their needs and at worst compounded their distress. Subsequent reviews and reforms reframed some victim needs as 'rights' and established legal, administrative, and practice frameworks to improve matters. Local authority 'crisis support', provided in partnership with other actors, lies at the heart of the UK's contemporary emergency response to the bereaved. Drawing on primary research on the development and the deployment of crisis support in a local authority, and while acknowledging both incident- and context-related difficulties, this paper considers the significance of challenges with their origins in organisational factors. Recent developments within and between responders may exacerbate them. This paper argues, therefore, that further research into such developments is necessary
Agency (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Crisis management · General partnership · Medical emergency · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Software deployment · Suicide prevention · Work (physics · Disaster Management and Resilience · Disaster Response and Management · Engineering · Homelessness and Social Issues · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Law · Medicine · Public Administration
Community Emergency Planning
Excluded Perspectives in the Social Construction of Disaster
Constructing Victims' Rights
Coping With Catastrophe
Co‐ordination and Disaster Response in the United Kingdom
From civil defence to civil protection – and back again
Communication and cultural distortion during crises
Future UK emergency management
Paradoxes of power
Fallible decisions in management
How do you get your voice heard when no-one will let you?’ Victimization at work
Informal logics of risk
Death on the Roof
Globalization and the technocratization of social work
The Psychiatrization of Post-Traumatic Distress
Changes in the Form of Knowledge in Social Work
The Impact of Audit on Social Work Practice
Rethinking Security
Elements of Resilience After the World Trade Center Disaster
The World Changed Today
Organisational Learning and Selfadaptation in Dynamic DisasterEnvironments
Crime in post-Katrina Houston
Continuity, social change and Katrina
Making Difference in the Aftermath of the September 11th 2001 Terrorist Attacks
From the Margins to the Mainstream? Disaster Research at the Crossroads
When Will a Victim Be Secondarily Victimized? The Effect of Observer's Belief in a Just World, Victim's Innocence and Persistence of Suffering
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |