Institutional abuse
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Institutional abuse can typically occur in a care home, nursing home
Nursing home
A nursing home, convalescent home, skilled nursing unit , care home, rest home, or old people's home provides a type of care of residents: it is a place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living...

, acute hospital or in-patient setting and can be any of the following:
Institutional abuse also refers to child abuse in institutions where children were placed for their education, welfare, rehabilitation, or even protection. It can be considered to mainly apply to four categories of people:
  • children - see also child abuse
    Child abuse
    Child abuse is the physical, sexual, emotional mistreatment, or neglect of a child. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Children And Families define child maltreatment as any act or series of acts of commission or omission by a parent or...

  • adults with learning difficulties
  • adults with mental health problems
  • older people - see also elder abuse
    Elder abuse
    Elder abuse is a general term used to describe certain types of harm to older adults. Other terms commonly used include: "elder mistreatment," "senior abuse," "abuse in later life," "abuse of older adults," "abuse of older women," and "abuse of older men."...

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See also

  • Abuse
    Abuse
    Abuse is the improper usage or treatment for a bad purpose, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit. Abuse can come in many forms, such as: physical or verbal maltreatment, injury, sexual assault, violation, rape, unjust practices; wrongful practice or custom; offense; crime, or otherwise...

  • Foster care#State abuses
  • Institution
    Institution
    An institution is any structure or mechanism of social order and cooperation governing the behavior of a set of individuals within a given human community...

  • Life course theory
  • Vicarious liability
    Vicarious liability
    Vicarious liability is a form of strict, secondary liability that arises under the common law doctrine of agency – respondeat superior – the responsibility of the superior for the acts of their subordinate, or, in a broader sense, the responsibility of any third party that had the "right, ability...

  • Wales child abuse scandal
    Wales child abuse scandal
    The Wales child abuse scandal was the subject of a three-year, £13 million investigation into the sexual abuse of children in care homes in North Wales over two decades....


Further reading

Academic papers

Books
  • Abuse and neglect of children in institutions, 1979: hearings before the Subcommittee on Child and Human Development of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress
  • Barter C Investigating institutional abuse of children An exploration of the NSPCC experience - 1998 London: NSPCC. ISBN 0902498843
  • Beker, Jerome Institutional Abuse of Children and Youth (Child & Youth Services) (1982)
  • Hanson, R (Ed) Institutional Abuse of Children and Youth.(Child & Youth Services Series: Vol. 4, Nos. 1 & 2) New York: Haworth Press, 1982,
  • Westcott, Helen L. Institutional Abuse of Children - From Research to Policy: A Review (Policy, Practice, Research S.) (1991)
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