Recent judgments in the Court of Appeal have highlighted the significance of battered woman syndrome. This article describes the origin and features of the syndrome and some of its shortcomings. Medical aspects and legal applications of the concept are discussed. Language: en

Battered woman syndrome.

South Africa has one of the highest rates of intimate partner violence in the world. The South African mass media have been recognised as playing an important role in influencing individual cogniti...

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0081246316628815

Social representations of intimate partner violence in the South African media

Beit-Hatikva (BH) is a special unit within the Israeli prison system, and houses violent men who were sentenced to prison time for domestic violence. The goal of BH is to bring about behavioral and identity changes. The study explores the lived experiences of BH graduates. Twelve BH graduates were interviewed using an in-depth qualitative interview, at least one year following their release from prison. Interviewees were asked about meaningful experiences they underwent following their release from prison. Going out to the reality of life outside of BH, the graduates encounter narratives that challenge the BH narrative of changed identity and transformation. Focusing on their past, their stigma as ex-convicts, and disregarding their past normative achievements, this external and challenging societal narrative attempts to draw the graduate back into old patterns of thinking and behaving, challenging them to face temptations, provocations, expectations, and assumptions of social reality.

From the “Greenhouse” to Reality Challenges Faced by Graduates of In-Prison Batterers Intervention Program

The research reported here attempts to reveal the complex relationships between `law' and social behavior. The assumption is that social representations are the socio-cognitive mechanism that creates social behavior; thus, revealing the social representation of `law' can give us an explanation of social behavior as it is related to law. The social representation of law among members of the divided Israeli society is very complex. It simultaneously embodies obedience to and violation of the law, freedom and limitations, negative experiences, and criticism of the law, together with an understanding of its importance. The social representations of the law among our interviewees permits them to experience a feeling of autonomy, while keeping behavior within normative limits to uphold the law. Interviewees were also found to believe that the law is the strongest instrument available to ensure that society is protected and the status quo preserved. The law is seen as the defender of democracy, the weapon for co...

http://tap.sagepub.com/content/17/1/5.full.pdf

Playing by the Rules Social Representations of `Law' as the Socio-cognitive Mediating Mechanism between Law and Society

Respectability, morality and reputation: social representations of intimate partner violence against women in Cape Town

This paper examines the process of the emergence of new social representation among abusive men vis-‡-vis their own behavior. The discussion focuses on a group of 65 men who were sent to a closed h...

The Structuring Process of the Social Representation of Violence in Abusive Men

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