The Social Construction of Disclosure: The Case of Child Abuse in Israeli Society

Zvi Eisikovits; Jonathan Davidov; Laura Sigad; Rachel Lev-Wiesel

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9685-9_19

The Social Construction of Disclosure: The Case of Child Abuse in Israeli Society

Zvi Eisikovits, Jonathan Davidov, Laura Sigad, Rachel Lev-Wiesel

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Abstract

Based on 40 in-depth qualitative interviews with professionals, including law-enforcement personnel, educators, and mental health and health-care professionals, this chapter presents a study that describes and analyzes an insider’s view of the ways in which child abuse professionals perceive and understand the disclosure of violence. We found that disclosure is a function of social processes related to the values, ideologies, ways of thinking, and interests of the various social agents involved in the process. Thus, disclosure is not an objective fact-finding process and the subsequent assignment of visibility and proper societal reaction, but rather a social construction.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Child Maltreatment
Subtitle of host publication	Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	395-413
Number of pages	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9685-9_19
State	Published - 2015

Publication series

Name	Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy
Volume	4
ISSN (Print)	2211-9701
ISSN (Electronic)	2211-971X

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© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.

Keywords

Child abuse
Child protection
Decision-making
Disclosure
Professionals
Psychology of reporting
Reporting
Values

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Anthropology
Health(social science)
Psychology (miscellaneous)
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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The Social Construction of Disclosure: The Case of Child Abuse in Israeli Society. / Eisikovits, Zvi; Davidov, Jonathan; Sigad, Laura et al.
Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy. Springer Nature, 2015. p. 395-413 (Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy; Vol. 4).

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