The Praxis Safety and Accountability Audit: Practicing a “Sociology for People”

From the September issue of Violence Against Women
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The Praxis Safety and Accountability Audit: Practicing a “Sociology for People”

Jane M. Sadusky Private Consultant, Madison, WI
Rhonda Martinson Battered Women's Justice Project, Minneapolis, MN, rmartinson@bwjp.org
Kristine Lizdas Battered Women's Justice Project, Minneapolis, MN
Casey McGee Praxis International, St. Paul, MN

Abstract

Ellen Pence has crafted the Praxis Safety and Accountability Audit (Safety Audit) on the social change foundation of the battered women’s movement, the idea of a coordinated community response to domestic violence, and institutional ethnography’s emphasis on asking questions from the standpoint of people in their everyday lives. Conducted by an interagency team of advocates and practitioners, the Safety Audit uses interviews, observations, and text analysis to examine the ways in which institutions standardize and coordinate workers’ actions to produce interventions and outcomes that enhance or diminish safety for battered women and their children. With the Safety Audit, Pence has provided a new and distinctive tool for community change.

Tonight - Violent man evicted from Big Brother house

Tonight - Violent man evicted from Big Brother house: "

Violent man evicted from Big Brother house
September 18, 2010

By Sheree Béga

Public outrage forced M-Net to boot controversial Big Brother All Stars housemate Hannington Kuteesa off the show yesterday after he hit and shoved a fellow female contestant early this week.

And the woman he hit has been banned from drinking alcohol for the rest of the series.

Civil society groups, including People Opposing Women Abuse (Powa) and the Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre, criticised M-Net this week after it allowed Ugandan Kuteesa to remain in the show after an altercation with South Africa's Lerato Sengadi on Tuesday night that left her with bleeding gums, only providing the pair with a psychologist to 'guide them'."

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