The pretence of normality

Intra-family violence and the response of state agencies in Northern Ireland

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8100096
AutoresPaul Michael Garrett (0000-0002-8200-8377, department's Irish Workers’ Group; Merseyside Irish Social Care Forum., autor de correspondencia)
Año1999
Volumen19
Número1
Páginas31-55
Fecha de publicación1999-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0261-0183 • E-ISSN: 1461-703X
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/026101839901900103
OpenAlexW2078954559
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas26

Northern Ireland is an abnormal political and social formation which, for a large proportion of its population, has lacked political and democratic legitmacy. As a consequence of this, the modalities of state intervention in the private sphere—the family—have been similarly abnormal. The discussion examines these interventions in relation to child abuse and domestic violence. It is argued that these social policy discourses are destabilized in the six counties and that the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and Health and Social Services Board personnel have not been able to intervene in the same way as their counterparts might in Britain and the Irish Republic

Criminology · Democracy · Domestic violence · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnology · Intervention (counseling · Irish · Medical emergency · Northern ireland · Poison control · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Population · Private sphere · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Public sphere · Sociology · State (computer science · Suicide prevention · Child Abuse and Trauma · Demography · Gender Studies · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Irish and British Studies · Law · Medicine