caa a22 4500 463173635 CHVBK 20180406164820.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10612-007-9039-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10612-007-9039-z Social Bridges Falling Down: Reconstructing a ‘Troublesome Population' of Battered Women through Individual Responsibilization Strategies [Elektronische Daten] [Martin Silverstein, Roberta Spark] The Bridges work preparation program is a deliberate government-sponsored strategy to help and empower battered women to take responsibility for their own lives. However, while the Bridges program promotes the freedom to make choices, in reality there is little choice when powerful governments coerce battered women to align their personal choices with government goals. The Bridges work preparation program presents ultimatums to powerless women in the same way that male batterers present ultimatums to their female victims. Ultimatums to battered women in order to stay in the Bridges program are that they take individual responsibility to be free of their abusers, to be alcohol and drug free, to have their children in day care, and to be motivated to get employment. The Bridges program arguably puts too much responsibility on individual battered women to extricate themselves from the everyday lives of assault and violence and distances government from its social responsibility for helping battered women. In order to help battered women, governments must engage in social programs assisting them to relocate from one welfare office to another and assist with day care, transportation, and cash. This assistance will make disengaging from batterers a real alternative. Otherwise, alternatives for battered women are dependence on batterers or dependence on the state for social assistance. Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2007 Silverstein Martin School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University College of the Fraser Valley, 33844 King Road, V2S 7M8, Abbotsford, BC, Canada aut Spark Roberta 212-33688 King Road, V2S 7P8, Abbotsford, BC, Canada aut Critical Criminology Springer Netherlands 15/4(2007-12-01), 327-342 1205-8629 15:4<327 2007 15 10612 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-007-9039-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-007-9039-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Silverstein Martin School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University College of the Fraser Valley, 33844 King Road, V2S 7M8, Abbotsford, BC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Spark Roberta 212-33688 King Road, V2S 7P8, Abbotsford, BC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Critical Criminology Springer Netherlands 15/4(2007-12-01), 327-342 1205-8629 15:4<327 2007 15 10612 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer