Victim Narratives of Historical Abuse in Residential Child Care
Do We Really Know What We Think We Know?
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8080294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Smith (0000-0002-1048-7786, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author), Mark D Smith (0000-0002-4188-2324, University of Edinburgh) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 303-320 |
| Publication date | 2010-08-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1473-3250 • E-ISSN: 1741-3117 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1473325010367816 |
| OpenAlex | W2125188093 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 25 |
Dystopian images of children’s remains buried in the cellars of Haut de la Garenne children’s home in the Channel Island of Jersey brought the subject of historical abuse in residential child care graphically to public consciousness over the course of 2008. Subsequent revelations around the provenance of police spin in that case prompt examination of the ways in which knowledge of institutional abuse has been constructed more generally. Drawing on insights from qualitative inquiry, this article seeks to destabilize the subject and to question the epistemological basis for the truth claims made in respect of it. Specifically, it focuses a critical gaze on the Scottish Government’s Systemic Review of Historical Abuse (Shaw, 2007) to highlight how documentary sources construct and reify a particular version of the past and how ‘victim’ narratives are privileged and used to silence other accounts of life in residential child care. Some implications of this for social work research and for those who claim and those accused of historical abuse are identified
Aesthetics · Child abuse · Construct (python library · Criminology · Dystopia · Government (linguistics · Narrative · Poison control · Political science · Silence · Sociology · Subject (documents · Suicide prevention · Irish and British Studies · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Military, Security, and Education Studies · Psychology · Law
Articulating the Church's story as legal defendant in abuse claims
Victims, perpetrators, scapegoats and Russian dolls
Violence, role reversals, and turning points
Care as a Frame for Understanding the Mutual Constitution of State and Kinship
Disgusting Details Which Are Best Forgotten
You Can’t Say That!’
A cautionary tale regarding ‘believing’ allegations of historical child abuse
Moral Distress in Residential Child Care
Time to be Heard
Representing Reality
Documents of Life 2
Constructive Social Work
Accounts, Interviews and Observations
Narrative in Social Work
Crime Victims
Narrative Turn or Blind Alley
Historical abuse in residential child care
Missing years of abuse in children's homes
Social work research
An overwhelming sense of injustice? An exploration of child sexual abuse in relation to the concept of justice
Child Protection and the Media
Social Work and Narrative Ethics
The extent and nature of known cases of institutional child sexual abuse
Victimization, Care and Justice
Beyond Retroduction? -- Hermeneutics, Reflexivity and Social Work Practice
Narrating Significant Experience
Social Constructionism as Ontology
Narrative Time
Abused and Looked After Children as 'Moral Dirt
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2023 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |