Overview
- Focuses on the diffusion and implementation of the Barnahus model in Nordic and European contexts
- Discusses the Barnahus model’s potential, tensions and dilemmas from an institutional perspective
- Speaks to academics, policy makers, NGOs, social workers, psychologists, police and prosecutors, medical examinators
- Is an open access book, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology (PSVV)
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Keywords
- Barnahus model
- Decision-making
- social work
- Multi-agency
- Youth justice
- Child victims
- Safeguarding
- Child protection
- social services
- child abuse
- investigating child abuse
- Open Access
About this book
This is open access book contributes to ongoing discussions about how societies should respond to children who have experienced violence and abuse by delving into the Barnahus model: a multidisciplinary and co-located model whose aim is to provide both justice and recovery to victimised children. The promising model was first implemented in the Nordic region and is currently being diffused across Europe, although scientific knowledge about the model remains scarce: the Barnahus model’s potential for delivering holistic services, the various tensions and dilemmas involved in the model, and how dual mandate of Barnahus can be managed all require further research. Continuing from the volume Collaborating Against Child Abuse (2017) which examined the process of Barnahus’ diffusion in the Nordic countries, the current book digs deeper into the intrinsic institutional tensions of the model, as well as those that might arise during collaboration, in order to advance our understanding of what can be achieved through the model and thus improve the situation of child victims of violence and abuse. An institutional perspective is used in the book which is structured in four parts. The first three parts explore different types of institutional tensions –legal, organisational, and professional-ethical, while the fourth focuses on how these tensions may be balanced. The book’s authors chart this new phase in the diffusion and translation of the Barnahus model. Their analyses will provide valuable guidance to countries that are currently considering or are already implementing the model.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Susanna Johansson is an associate professor at the School of Social Work, Lund University, Sweden.
Kari Stefansen is a research professor at Norwegian Social Research (NOVA) at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.
Elisiv Bakketeig is a research professor at Norwegian Social Research (NOVA) at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.
Anna Kaldal is a professor in procedural law at the Law Faculty of Stockholm University, Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Justice and Recovery for Victimised Children
Book Subtitle: Institutional Tensions in Nordic and European Barnahus Models
Editors: Susanna Johansson, Kari Stefansen, Elisiv Bakketeig, Anna Kaldal
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53232-0Due: 14 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53235-1Due: 14 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-53233-7Due: 14 June 2024
Series ISSN: 2947-9355
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9363
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 288
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations