The latest essay from The Relational Justice Project™ asks a prior question
Australia is developing the next phase of the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children.
The consultation asks necessary questions about prevention, evidence, children’s safety, institutional capability and the creation of more connected systems.
But before asking how systems should become more integrated, there is a prior question:
What is the system organised to see?
Greater coordination will not produce justice if institutions share information through the same partial theory of harm. An integrated system can still misclassify a family. It can also spread and entrench that misclassification more efficiently.
This is the subject of my newly published essay, Ideological Capture and the Family, the fourth essay in The Relational Society: A Manifesto for Relational Justice.
A framework is useful when it helps us see. It becomes dangerous when it decides in advance what can be seen.
Family policy must take seriously the gendered and sometimes lethal patterns of family violence. It must also determine what conduct occurred in the particular family before it, how a child’s views were formed, which relationships are dangerous or protective and what an intervention actually produced.
The full essay examines:
- how population evidence can become an individual verdict;
- how domestic abuse and alienating behaviour become rival ideological doctrines;
- why safety and belonging have been turned into opposing causes;
- what evidence-sensitive relational assessment would require; and
- why institutional activity should not be confused with successful outcomes.
It also sets out the fourth proposition of the Relational Justice manifesto:
Ideology must not decide the facts.
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