Rolf Kuschel

Nu er det nok! Strategier til bekæmpelse af klient-vold i danske primærkommuner

AbstractOver the last few years, the Danish authorities have experienced a steady increase of cases of violence against public servants. It appears that the employees of the Social and Health Services constitute a special high-risk group exposed to violent acts of threatening situations.A new policy has been decided upon by several Danish municipalities to safeguard these employees against the psychological and physical violence from their clients. A model, based on different approaches, has been developed for successful strategies of prevention.

Ægteskabelige konfliktløsninger i et polynesisk ø-samfund

Kuschel, R. (1993). Marital conflict managements on a Polynesian Outlier. Nordisk Psykologi, 45, 274–294. More and more studies of domestic violence emerge in which wife-beating appears to be the most frequent form of household violence. Data from western countries reveal wife-beating frequencies as high as 50 pet. and more. Unfortunately, only few data are available from non-western and non-industrialized countries. The present paper deals with wife-beating on the 17 km2 small Polynesian outlier Bellona situated in the Solomon Islands. It tries to uncover the causes, developments and outcomes of such interactions, as well as it tries to display the explicit and implicit social rules governing this behavior. It is demonstrated that the Bellonese use standards that are very different from our own to define what constitutes socially appropriate, inappropriate and abusive behavior, and that they consider a certain level of family violence to be normal and acceptable. It is argued that wife-beating is part of...