SOCPSY 3ZZ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sex Tourism, Germanisation, Canadian Red Cross
27 Mar 2019
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Violence abuse, and child workers part 1. Children as victims of violence, crime and abuse. Kitzinger argue that constructions of childhood may perpetuate abuse . Why: being innocent makes children a target, children can be penalized as seen as non-innocent after being abused or subjected to violence, authoritarian relationships reinforce power imbalances between children and adults. If they come forward they will be more penalized. Important to control terminology utilized since it can lead to marginalization and abuse of children: for example; kitzinger argues one needs to understand children"s powerlessness by viewing is as oppression and liberation rather than vulnerability and protection. Childhood violence = problem of this, patriarchal society and the part of the. Structural oppression of children caused by the existence and maintenance of that power itself . Particular constructions and deconstructions of children/childhood creates or denies access to services, laws and resources.
