'Stop Hitting Mum!' Children Talk about domestic violence

This is a touching book which demonstrates how children suffer. The authors interviewed 54 children who had lived with domestic violence, and this book quotes what these children had to say about how they feel.

 

 

Authors: Sheila Burton, Gill Hague, Umme F Imam, Liz Kelly, Ellen Malos, Audrey Mullender, Linda Regan

Home Truths About Child Sexual Abuse: Influencing Policy and Practice - A Reader

Catherine Itzin (ed.), Routledge

Authors: Sheila Burton, Liz Kelly, Linda Regan

Domestic Violence Matters: An Evaluation of a Development Project

This report documents the multi-methodological evaluation of 'Domestic Violence Matters' (DVM), an adaptation of a Canadian project - the Family Consultancy Service (London, Ontario) - which involves locating a team of skilled civilian support workers within the police service to follow up police responses to domestic violence.

Available to view at the Home Office website.

See Project: Evaluation of Domestic Violence Matters (A Development Project)

Authors: Liz Kelly, Julie Bindel, Sheila Burton, Dianne Butterworth, Kate Cook, Linda Regan

Making connections - building bridges: research into action - ten years of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit

Authors: Sheila Burton, Liz Kelly, Linda Regan

Legacies of Abuse - "It's More Complicated Than That": A Qualitative Study of the Meaning and Impacts of Sexual Abuse in Childhood

The primary objective of this study was to explore the ways in which the gender and age of victim and abuser affected the meanings and impacts of sexual abuse in childhood in a non-clinical sample of women and men. The study includes a review of the literature on the influence of the gender and age of both the victim and the abuser on the experience of sexual abuse in childhood; a secondary analysis of ESRC prevalence study data in order to highlight the differences with regard to age and gender and in-depth interviews with adults whose experiences differ in relation to gender and age.

See Project: A Qualitative Study of the Meaning and Impacts of Sexual Abuse in Childhood

Authors: Sheila Burton, Liz Kelly, Linda Regan

Young People's Attitudes Towards Violence, Sex and Relationships: A Survey and Focus Group Study

This study investigated young people's attitudes towards violence, sex and relationships drawing upon a large-scale survey and in-depth focus groups. The study findings highlight the extent to which young people tolerate violence against women and documents widespread acceptance of forced sex and physical violence among young women, and to a greater extent, among young men.

See Project: Young People's Attitudes Towards Violence, Sex and Relationships: A Survey and Focus Group Study

Authors: Sheila Burton, Liz Kelly, Jenny Kitzinger, Linda Regan

Supporting Women and Challenging Men: Lessons from the Domestic Violence Intervention Project

This is the report of a CWASU evaluation of the Domestic Violence Intervention Project (DVIP) based in West London. Both arms of DVIP, the Violence Prevention Programme (VPP) which works with violent men and the Women's Support Service (WSS) were evaluated. This is a process (rather than strictly an outcome) evaluation which explores a wide range of policy and practice issues. The report provides information on the structure, content and process of work within DVIP, exploring how both VPP and WSS work; what they do; and the tensions and dilemmas that arise in the course of this kind of work. The report also contains an examination of what the project has learnt and how it has changed over the course of the two-year study; where work with violent men is located in relation to current policy and multi-agency responses, and what pro-active approaches to work with women have to offer.

A summary is available to view at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation website.

See Project: Evaluation of the Domestic Violence Intervention Project

Authors: Sheila Burton, Liz Kelly, Linda Regan

Making Connections - Building Bridges: Research into Action - Ten Years of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit

This paper is an overview of the work and perspective of CWASU between 1987 and 1997. It has involved much summarising and selection, and inevitably means some areas have been neglected, others emphasised. Rather than offer a bland outline of the work that has been undertaken, Liz Kelly, Linda Regan and Sheila Burton have chosen to use this opportunity to reflect on and analyse the contribution of CWASU to feminist approaches violence against women and children.

 

Presented at: The Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit Tenth Anniversary Event, University of North London, 1997.

 

Also published in The British Journal of Social Work, 1998 (28); 601-613.

 

Authors: Sheila Burton, Liz Kelly, Linda Regan

Sexualising the Social: Power and the Organisation of Sexuality

Lisa Adkins and Vicki Merchant (eds.), Macmillan

Authors: Sheila Burton, Liz Kelly, Linda Regan

Splintered Lives: Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Context of Children's Rights and Child Protection

This document arose out of the work of the European Forum for Child Welfare, drawing on papers and discussions from two European conferences on Child Pornography and Sexual Exploitation held in London and Brussels in 1995. The report summarises what is currently known about the sexual exploitation of children; documents responses to sexual exploitation in terms of legislation, policy and practice; explores the interconnectedness of pornography, prostitution and trafficking; examines the routes in and out of, and the impacts of, sexual exploitation; highlights gaps in knowledge and in the policy framework; places all of the above in a children's rights and child protection context, and focuses on Britain, whilst also taking account of both the European and global contexts.

See Project: What is known about child sexual exploitation in the UK

Authors: Sheila Burton, Liz Kelly, Linda Regan, Rachel Wingfield

Syndromes and disorders: the dangers of medicalising the impacts of sexual violence in legal cases

 

Authors: Sheila Burton, Liz Kelly, Linda Regan

No Right Way

Tracie Orr, Scarlet Press

Authors: Sheila Burton, Liz Kelly, Linda Regan

Researching Women's Lives from a Feminist Perspective

Mary Maynard and June Purvis (eds.), Taylor and Francis.

Authors: Sheila Burton, Liz Kelly, Linda Regan

Surviving Childhood Adversity: Issues for Policy and Practice

Harry Ferguson, Robbie Gilligan and Ruth Torode (eds.), Dublin, Social Studies Press

Authors: Sheila Burton, Liz Kelly, Linda Regan

Abuse of Women and Children: A Feminist Response

The papers in this monograph explore three related areas: Organised child sexual abuse, domestic violence and joint working between agencies dealing with child abuse. They represent the thinking of the London Metropolitan University's Child and Women Abuse Studies Unit (formerly the Child Abuse Studies Unit). The Unit's work approaches the complex and multivalent issue of abuse from a feminist perspective, which believes that gender is a critical factor in explaining the prevalence of abusive relationships.

Available from: the Child and Women Abuse Studies Unit £5.00 plus £1.00 p&p

Authors: Sheila Burton, Liz Kelly, Linda Regan

Beyond Containment: The Penal Response to Sex Offending

Prison Reform Trust

Authors: Sheila Burton, Liz Kelly, Linda Regan

Working Out: New Directions for Women's Studies

Hilary Hinds, Ann Phoenix and Jackie Stacey (eds.), Falmer Press

Authors: Sheila Burton, Liz Kelly, Linda Regan

'And What Happened To Him?': Policy on Sex Offenders from the Survivor's Perspective

Published within 'Beyond Containment: The Penal Response To Sex Offending', London, Prison Reform Trust.

Authors: Sheila Burton, Liz Kelly, Linda Regan

An Exploratory Study of the Prevalence of Sexual Abuse in a Sample of 16-21 Year Olds

This report focuses primarily on the overall prevalence of sexual abuse among a representative sample of young people, the forms of abuse they have experienced, the ages at which they occurred and the relationship between victim and abuser. A detailed questionnaire was completed by 1,244 students aged 16-21 attending seven Further Education Colleges in England, Scotland and Wales.

Short summary of findings;

One in two girls and one in four boys will experience some form of sexual abuse before their eighteenth birthday. In this survey of 1,244 young people aged between 16 and 21, 59% of young women and 27% of young men reported at least one sexually intrusive experience before they were 18. Sexual abuse, here, is defined broadly including 'flashing', being touched, being pressured to have sex and attempted and actual assaults/rapes. Abuse was committed by both adults and peers. Almost a third of these incidents occurred before the age of 12.

See Project: Exploratory Study of the Prevalence of Child Sexual Abuse

Authors: Sheila Burton, Liz Kelly, Linda Regan

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