TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Children Who “Witness” Violence as Crime Victims and Changing Family Law in Sweden
JO  - Journal of child custody
A1  - Eriksson, Maria
SP  - 93
EP  - 93
VL  - 7
IS  - 2
N2  - Changes to the Swedish family law that came into force on July 1, 2006 aimed at introducing a more safety oriented approach to custody, contact, or residence disputes where there is also a history of domestic violence. In the 1990s, a more gender sensitive and “holistic” approach to violence in intimate relationships was introduced in Sweden. In the wake of these developments, children who see or hear violence to a parent, typically the mother, have increasingly been defined as crime victims in their own right. It is argued that these developments are also a key to understanding recent changes in family law and policy on custody, residence, or contact more broadly. A feminist framework for understanding violence in heterosexual relationships in combination with the redefinition of children who “witness” violence seems to have created a discursive opportunity structure that enables a shift in focus to violent fathers as parents, reaching into the area of family law.<p />
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SN  - 1537-9418
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15379418.2010.508258
ID  - ref1
ER  -