Responding to men
SOURCE: British Journal of Criminology
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2015
TITLE AUTHOR(S): F.A.Boonzaier, S.F.Gordon
KEYWORDS: MEN, PARTNER VIOLENCE, POST APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA, VIOLENCE
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9907
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/11179
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/11179
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2015
TITLE AUTHOR(S): F.A.Boonzaier, S.F.Gordon
KEYWORDS: MEN, PARTNER VIOLENCE, POST APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA, VIOLENCE
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9907
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/11179
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/11179
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Abstract
Despite a body of work on male perpetrators experiences of intervention programmes, little is known about the intersubjective aspects of the relationships between counsellors and perpetrators. This article explores the intervention context as a social encounter, in which the identities of both parties are implicated, drawing on qualitative interviews with counsellors. We show how social identifications such as age, gender, race and class intersect to produce different possibilities for counsellors and clients, but also how identification involves more than just social similarity. We suggest that a responsive response to counselling male abusers may mean the recognition of the importance of identification across and through social similarity but it may also mean working through psychic identification to overcome difference in the counselling encounter.-
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