Domestic Violence and Child Protection Services Assessment

Domestic abuse is rooted in gender inequality.

• Women are most often seen as primarily responsible for child safety, despite the perpetrator’s responsibility for harm and abuse.
• The social attitudes that fuel domestic abuse and attribute blame to women for men’s violence can also be present in social work practice.
• The threat of having children removed by social workers is acutely felt by women. Often this threat denies the efforts women have made to protect their child from abuse and does not take into account the challenges and the increased risk of violence faced by women when leaving their abuser partner.
• A failure by social workers to recognise the context of women’s lives and respond appropriately can re-traumatise women who have already experienced abuse and trauma.
• Historically - women failed to care in cases of child protection services.
• Social worker roles towards Domestic violence and children protection services.
• Application of theory towards this sociological issue (Domestic violence and child protection services)

Question

Ideas

1. Define and apply key sociological concepts to contemporary social issues
2. Analyses the influences of socialization on social roles, beliefs and values
3. Discuss and apply sociological concepts, including: gender, class, status, power, structure and analyze how these contribute to social inequality                             
4. Explore diversity within social environments and analyze historical patterns of social inequalities          
5. Women are most often seen as primarily responsible for the child safety, despite the perpetrators responsibility for harm and abuse.
6. Describe and discuss the roles of the social sciences in contemporary society

Part B: Visual/PowerPoint Presentation Summary (individual)

To accompany the PowerPoint slides students are to individually submit a presentation report in the form of a word document no more than 1,200 words long. This complements the largely visual power point presentation you have created with your group. This will report on the content of the presentation.Using text, appropriately define and apply the two sociological concepts featured in the PowerPoint slides to the social inequality issue featured in the PowerPoint slides. Your written outline should briefly describe the historical roots of the selected social equality issue and the social contexts within which it emerged.