Gender Justice and Gender-based Violence

Navindhra NaidooCape Peninsula University of Technology

naidoon@cput.ac.za

• Multi-disciplinary collaboration

• Reverse contextualisation

Background

• Sense of coherance• Learnt

resourcefullness• Gender-neutral

Salutogenisis • Screening vs clinical

case finding• Policy, protocol,

regulation• Social justice and

community of practice Health

Sector Response

Focus

Managing and Responding to Gender Based Violence in South Africa Through Education, Training and Research: Synergies between Practitioners and Higher Education Institutions – A Case Study of the Advice Desk for the Abused.

PhD Forensic Pathology (UCT) Collaboration: CPUT, UKZN, WSU/HSRC, Advice Desk for the Abused Disciplines involved: Political Science, Psychology, Education, Emergency Medicine, Commerce, Law, Forensic Pathology, Gender

Background

The expected collective or economic benefits derived from the preferential treatment and cooperation between individuals and groups

Social networks have value Just as a screwdriver (physical capital) or

university education (cultural/human capital) can increase productivity…so do social contacts affect the productivity of individuals/ groups

Social CapitalPutnam, R (2000). Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American

Community

Academia

Research:theory/

empiricism

Policyeducation/ regulation/ socialisation

Practitioners (NGO/Govt.)

Professionalization/ self-efficacy/ learnt

helplessness/ intervention

opportunities

Lay counsellor/ CI/ Professional: GBV

mainstreaming

Survivor/victim/perpetrator

Lived Experience/social context/

resilience

Consequence/ opportunities for

change

Survivor/ victim/ perpetrator

Lived Experience/

social context

Consequences/ opportunities

for change

Practitioners (NGO/ Govt)

Lay counsellor/ Crisis

Interventionists

Professional: GBV

mainstreaming

Academia

Research:theory/ empiricism

Policy: education/ regulation/

socialisation

Social Capital implications for Violence Prevention

Violence Prevention

Physical/ intellectu

al resources

Functional

networks

Shared investme

nt

A group of people who share a craft/profession

Shared interests vs active engagement Move from pockets of excellence to a

trajectory of excellence

Community of Practice(Lave and Wenger, 1991)

Community of Practice

Community of Practice

In a meta-analytic review examining the findings of 22 studies evaluating the treatment efficacy of therapeutic interventions for domestically violent males (beyond legal interventions), only a minimal impact was found (Babcock, Green, and Robie, 2004).

Perpetrator Rehabilitation

Another review of nine rigorous evaluations of domestic violence treatment programmes (Washington State Institute for Public Policy, 2006) concluded that domestic violence rehabilitation programmes “have yet to demonstrate reductions in recidivism”.

Perpetrator Rehabilitation

Further evidence of the absence of a strong evidence base for domestic violence interventions were the results of a 2009 review of seven domestic violence perpetrator treatment studies (Stover, Meadows and Kaufman, 2009).

The evidence from these studies suggest that perpetrator interventions have limited effect on repeated violence, with most studies demonstrating minimal or no benefit, above the no treatment group.

Perpetrator Rehabilitation

Figure : The salutogenic model to guide health promotion [adapted from Antonovsky, 1996; Mittelmark, 2008:12, and Naidoo N and Nadvi L, 2013: Risk factor management and perpetrator rehabilitation in cases of gender-based violence in South Africa: Implications of salutogenesis, Agenda]

Salutogenesis (wellness creation)

Health Sector Response

Screening versus Clinical Case finding

HPCSA ethical rules provide for safety protection

Community of practice

Family and

Friends

Emergency Care personn

el

Doctors and

nurses

Social workers,

psychologists

legal practitioners

• Multi-disciplinary collaboration

• Reverse contextualisation

Background

• Sense of coherance• Learnt

resourcefullness• Gender-neutral

Salutogenisis • Screening vs clinical

case finding• Policy, protocol,

regulation• Social justice and

community of practice Health

Sector Response

Summary