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Papers by Jeanne Sarson
Preamble: To holistically understand the impact non-political torture, including ritual abusetort... more Preamble: To holistically understand the impact non-political torture, including ritual abusetorture, has on a victimized person’s concepts, beliefs, and perceptions demands that one be genuinely open to seeing reality from their perspective—to respect their knowing and to learn from their knowing. Learning from the victimized person requires, firstly, that the victimized person extend the privilege of sharing their lived experiences with the learner. Secondly, the learner needs the willingness and the ability to be present whole-heartedly 1 with the victimized person as they struggle to share their wisdoms with the learner. Wisdoms which are embedded—in their sufferings, their vulnerabilities, their isolation, their fears and anxieties, in their terror and in their horrors—in the totality of their experiential ordeals 2 .
Mind and Society
This paper presents our individual/collective experiences and knowledge co-constructed through ou... more This paper presents our individual/collective experiences and knowledge co-constructed through our involvement in non-State torture and anti-trafficking movements. The purpose of this paper is to help people critically understand torture and human trafficking of women in the Western countries using a case example from Canada presented in a webinar which is now reflected in this paper. Using grassroots science as a theoretical framework, we share our experiences and knowledge generated from our involvement in the anti-trafficking movement and the lived experiences in this critical reflective paper. Although we share some key findings from the research for in-depth discussion, we claim this paper is a reflective theoretical paper. In this article, we (Jeanne, Linda, Rita, and Jeanette) first begin by sharing our own social locations together with our collective journey to the anti-trafficking movement and the process of our involvement in the development of this paper which includes t...
International Journal of Advanced Nursing Education and Research, 2019
In 2000, Lynn, a Canadian woman, was considered by home care service providers too difficult a cl... more In 2000, Lynn, a Canadian woman, was considered by home care service providers too difficult a client and thus they sought to discontinue her care. That was until Lynn disclosed to the authors that twenty-five years ago, she had been held captive and subjected to torture and sexualized trafficking for over four years, perpetrated by her husband and three of his friends. This paper shares the non-State torture (NST) victimization-traumatization informed care developed by the authors beginning in 1993 when confronted by the fact that parents, spouses, guardians, and others inflict acts of violence in the domestic private sphere that manifests as torture. Shared are the authors' explanation of non-State torture and examples of nursing interventions such as trigger table care plans. It closes with the innovative suggestion of developing a nursing diagnosis to create nursing awareness about the provision of care to women who have suffered NST victimization. Examples of resources are included.
Witness, Jun 27, 2022
In 1993 women began disclosing to us that they had been tortured as children or as adults. Parent... more In 1993 women began disclosing to us that they had been tortured as children or as adults. Parents, other family members, and their friends, guardians, a spouse, and others were identified as torturers. Social-professional acknowledgement that named and defined what constituted acts of torture perpetrated against women and against them as children, within intimate relationships, was lacking in the literature. It took years before the term non-state actors developed to differentiate "everyday" persons from state actors who are representatives of a state or a government (Amnesty International, 2000). State actors are, for example, police or public officials and military personnel. Both-state and non-state actors-do perpetrate acts of violence against women within intimate relationships (Boon
WARNING: The content and images featured in this article are explicit and may be disturbing to so... more WARNING: The content and images featured in this article are explicit and may be disturbing to some readers. Cet article decrit l’impact «classique» de la victimisation suite a la torture infligee a l’exterieur des Nations. Les auteures mettent en relation leurs connaissances et leur contact avec des femmes qui denoncent par le biais de leur art ce qu’elles ont vecu et les effets sur leur vie : des dessins, un tableau, une photo. Les femmes sont affectees hors de proportion par ces crimes qui ne sont meme pas reconnus par la societe et la justice. Cette torture doit etre reconnue comme une forme specifique de violence interpersonnelle dans les codes criminels de l’Etat alors que les Nations Unis sont outillees pour proteger les droits des femmes qui ne peuvent etre jugees, ne peuvent recevoir de l’aide pour une rehabilitation que les auteures jugent realisable.
It is beyond wilful blindness, contend Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald, when the political cult... more It is beyond wilful blindness, contend Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald, when the political cultural climate wrapped in patriarchy, sexism and misogyny, childism and misopedia intentionally whitewashes and denies the legal right of women to name crimes of violence against them for what they are: non-state torture. It is wrong that women seeking justice for this specific human rights violation of torture perpetrated by private individuals or groups should be denied redress. Sarson and MacDonald’s work is based on 21 years of activism, advocacy and grass roots work supporting women detailing, from their earliest of memories, having survived acts of classic torture victimisation perpetrated within family relationships. By reference to the words of these women, Sarson and MacDonald name these family unit constructions as an organised co-culture whose perpetrators have functioned easily within the mainstream culture and continue to do so. They point out that these family units exist wit...
Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 2008
... These families/groups use and abuse the power of destructive enculturation embedded in ritual... more ... These families/groups use and abuse the power of destructive enculturation embedded in ritualized group ... gathers financial or other benefits when the perpetrators are involved in criminal activities such ... early age when one child is forced to harm another child, animal, or adult ...
Processes of inquiry: a questionnaire, web-survey, and the narratives of women detailing how non-... more Processes of inquiry: a questionnaire, web-survey, and the narratives of women detailing how non-state actor torture (NSAT) inflicted by a mother, father, sibling and guardians who had warring or military experiences, spilled over into the domestic sphere. Discussion illustrates how a patriarchal divide has and does exist internationally and nationally in Canada whereby the defining elements of state torture: severity, intentionality, purposefulness and powerlessness make it a distinct offence from all others, whereas, these elements are not equally applied to NSAT to acknowledge that it is also is a distinct offence that occurs in the domestic sphere, therefore NSAT is invisibilized. It is argued that discrimination exists, even within the UN Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), when there was a failure to recognize Canadian women and girls who survived NSAT as a vulnerable group. Socio-legal visibilization solutions a...
It is beyond wilful blindness, contend Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald, when the political cult... more It is beyond wilful blindness, contend Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald, when the political cultural climate wrapped in patriarchy, sexism and misogyny, childism and misopedia intentionally whitewashes and denies the legal right of women to name crimes of violence against them for what they are: non-state torture. It is wrong that women seeking justice for this specific human rights violation of torture perpetrated by private individuals or groups should be denied redress. Sarson and MacDonald’s work is based on 21 years of activism, advocacy and grass roots work supporting women detailing, from their earliest of memories, having survived acts of classic torture victimisation perpetrated within family relationships. By reference to the words of these women, Sarson and MacDonald name these family unit constructions as an organised co-culture whose perpetrators have functioned easily within the mainstream culture and continue to do so. They point out that these family units exist wit...
The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking
This is a praxis-based chapter with a feminist human rights lens. Drawing on the authors' knowled... more This is a praxis-based chapter with a feminist human rights lens. Drawing on the authors' knowledge-based experiences, it explains that women and girls are subjected to torture and human trafficking by non-State actors in the domestic private sphere. The chapter begins by defining non-State torture and that women speak of being born into family-based systems that also trafficked them.
Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme, 2018
WARNING: The content and images featured in this article are explicit and may be disturbing to so... more WARNING: The content and images featured in this article are explicit and may be disturbing to some readers. Cet article decrit l’impact «classique» de la victimisation suite a la torture infligee a l’exterieur des Nations. Les auteures mettent en relation leurs connaissances et leur contact avec des femmes qui denoncent par le biais de leur art ce qu’elles ont vecu et les effets sur leur vie : des dessins, un tableau, une photo. Les femmes sont affectees hors de proportion par ces crimes qui ne sont meme pas reconnus par la societe et la justice. Cette torture doit etre reconnue comme une forme specifique de violence interpersonnelle dans les codes criminels de l’Etat alors que les Nations Unis sont outillees pour proteger les droits des femmes qui ne peuvent etre jugees, ne peuvent recevoir de l’aide pour une rehabilitation que les auteures jugent realisable.
International Journal of Advanced Nursing Education and Research
In 2000, Lynn, a Canadian woman, was considered by home care service providers too difficult a cl... more In 2000, Lynn, a Canadian woman, was considered by home care service providers too difficult a client and thus they sought to discontinue her care. That was until Lynn disclosed to the authors that twenty-five years ago, she had been held captive and subjected to torture and sexualized trafficking for over four years, perpetrated by her husband and three of his friends. This paper shares the non-State torture (NST) victimization-traumatization informed care developed by the authors beginning in 1993 when confronted by the fact that parents, spouses, guardians, and others inflict acts of violence in the domestic private sphere that manifests as torture. Shared are the authors' explanation of non-State torture and examples of nursing interventions such as trigger table care plans. It closes with the innovative suggestion of developing a nursing diagnosis to create nursing awareness about the provision of care to women who have suffered NST victimization. Examples of resources are included.
Journal of Human Trafficking
Journal of Human Trafficking
Preamble: To holistically understand the impact non-political torture, including ritual abusetort... more Preamble: To holistically understand the impact non-political torture, including ritual abusetorture, has on a victimized person’s concepts, beliefs, and perceptions demands that one be genuinely open to seeing reality from their perspective—to respect their knowing and to learn from their knowing. Learning from the victimized person requires, firstly, that the victimized person extend the privilege of sharing their lived experiences with the learner. Secondly, the learner needs the willingness and the ability to be present whole-heartedly 1 with the victimized person as they struggle to share their wisdoms with the learner. Wisdoms which are embedded—in their sufferings, their vulnerabilities, their isolation, their fears and anxieties, in their terror and in their horrors—in the totality of their experiential ordeals 2 .
Mind and Society
This paper presents our individual/collective experiences and knowledge co-constructed through ou... more This paper presents our individual/collective experiences and knowledge co-constructed through our involvement in non-State torture and anti-trafficking movements. The purpose of this paper is to help people critically understand torture and human trafficking of women in the Western countries using a case example from Canada presented in a webinar which is now reflected in this paper. Using grassroots science as a theoretical framework, we share our experiences and knowledge generated from our involvement in the anti-trafficking movement and the lived experiences in this critical reflective paper. Although we share some key findings from the research for in-depth discussion, we claim this paper is a reflective theoretical paper. In this article, we (Jeanne, Linda, Rita, and Jeanette) first begin by sharing our own social locations together with our collective journey to the anti-trafficking movement and the process of our involvement in the development of this paper which includes t...
International Journal of Advanced Nursing Education and Research, 2019
In 2000, Lynn, a Canadian woman, was considered by home care service providers too difficult a cl... more In 2000, Lynn, a Canadian woman, was considered by home care service providers too difficult a client and thus they sought to discontinue her care. That was until Lynn disclosed to the authors that twenty-five years ago, she had been held captive and subjected to torture and sexualized trafficking for over four years, perpetrated by her husband and three of his friends. This paper shares the non-State torture (NST) victimization-traumatization informed care developed by the authors beginning in 1993 when confronted by the fact that parents, spouses, guardians, and others inflict acts of violence in the domestic private sphere that manifests as torture. Shared are the authors' explanation of non-State torture and examples of nursing interventions such as trigger table care plans. It closes with the innovative suggestion of developing a nursing diagnosis to create nursing awareness about the provision of care to women who have suffered NST victimization. Examples of resources are included.
Witness, Jun 27, 2022
In 1993 women began disclosing to us that they had been tortured as children or as adults. Parent... more In 1993 women began disclosing to us that they had been tortured as children or as adults. Parents, other family members, and their friends, guardians, a spouse, and others were identified as torturers. Social-professional acknowledgement that named and defined what constituted acts of torture perpetrated against women and against them as children, within intimate relationships, was lacking in the literature. It took years before the term non-state actors developed to differentiate "everyday" persons from state actors who are representatives of a state or a government (Amnesty International, 2000). State actors are, for example, police or public officials and military personnel. Both-state and non-state actors-do perpetrate acts of violence against women within intimate relationships (Boon
WARNING: The content and images featured in this article are explicit and may be disturbing to so... more WARNING: The content and images featured in this article are explicit and may be disturbing to some readers. Cet article decrit l’impact «classique» de la victimisation suite a la torture infligee a l’exterieur des Nations. Les auteures mettent en relation leurs connaissances et leur contact avec des femmes qui denoncent par le biais de leur art ce qu’elles ont vecu et les effets sur leur vie : des dessins, un tableau, une photo. Les femmes sont affectees hors de proportion par ces crimes qui ne sont meme pas reconnus par la societe et la justice. Cette torture doit etre reconnue comme une forme specifique de violence interpersonnelle dans les codes criminels de l’Etat alors que les Nations Unis sont outillees pour proteger les droits des femmes qui ne peuvent etre jugees, ne peuvent recevoir de l’aide pour une rehabilitation que les auteures jugent realisable.
It is beyond wilful blindness, contend Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald, when the political cult... more It is beyond wilful blindness, contend Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald, when the political cultural climate wrapped in patriarchy, sexism and misogyny, childism and misopedia intentionally whitewashes and denies the legal right of women to name crimes of violence against them for what they are: non-state torture. It is wrong that women seeking justice for this specific human rights violation of torture perpetrated by private individuals or groups should be denied redress. Sarson and MacDonald’s work is based on 21 years of activism, advocacy and grass roots work supporting women detailing, from their earliest of memories, having survived acts of classic torture victimisation perpetrated within family relationships. By reference to the words of these women, Sarson and MacDonald name these family unit constructions as an organised co-culture whose perpetrators have functioned easily within the mainstream culture and continue to do so. They point out that these family units exist wit...
Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 2008
... These families/groups use and abuse the power of destructive enculturation embedded in ritual... more ... These families/groups use and abuse the power of destructive enculturation embedded in ritualized group ... gathers financial or other benefits when the perpetrators are involved in criminal activities such ... early age when one child is forced to harm another child, animal, or adult ...
Processes of inquiry: a questionnaire, web-survey, and the narratives of women detailing how non-... more Processes of inquiry: a questionnaire, web-survey, and the narratives of women detailing how non-state actor torture (NSAT) inflicted by a mother, father, sibling and guardians who had warring or military experiences, spilled over into the domestic sphere. Discussion illustrates how a patriarchal divide has and does exist internationally and nationally in Canada whereby the defining elements of state torture: severity, intentionality, purposefulness and powerlessness make it a distinct offence from all others, whereas, these elements are not equally applied to NSAT to acknowledge that it is also is a distinct offence that occurs in the domestic sphere, therefore NSAT is invisibilized. It is argued that discrimination exists, even within the UN Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), when there was a failure to recognize Canadian women and girls who survived NSAT as a vulnerable group. Socio-legal visibilization solutions a...
It is beyond wilful blindness, contend Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald, when the political cult... more It is beyond wilful blindness, contend Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald, when the political cultural climate wrapped in patriarchy, sexism and misogyny, childism and misopedia intentionally whitewashes and denies the legal right of women to name crimes of violence against them for what they are: non-state torture. It is wrong that women seeking justice for this specific human rights violation of torture perpetrated by private individuals or groups should be denied redress. Sarson and MacDonald’s work is based on 21 years of activism, advocacy and grass roots work supporting women detailing, from their earliest of memories, having survived acts of classic torture victimisation perpetrated within family relationships. By reference to the words of these women, Sarson and MacDonald name these family unit constructions as an organised co-culture whose perpetrators have functioned easily within the mainstream culture and continue to do so. They point out that these family units exist wit...
The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking
This is a praxis-based chapter with a feminist human rights lens. Drawing on the authors' knowled... more This is a praxis-based chapter with a feminist human rights lens. Drawing on the authors' knowledge-based experiences, it explains that women and girls are subjected to torture and human trafficking by non-State actors in the domestic private sphere. The chapter begins by defining non-State torture and that women speak of being born into family-based systems that also trafficked them.
Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme, 2018
WARNING: The content and images featured in this article are explicit and may be disturbing to so... more WARNING: The content and images featured in this article are explicit and may be disturbing to some readers. Cet article decrit l’impact «classique» de la victimisation suite a la torture infligee a l’exterieur des Nations. Les auteures mettent en relation leurs connaissances et leur contact avec des femmes qui denoncent par le biais de leur art ce qu’elles ont vecu et les effets sur leur vie : des dessins, un tableau, une photo. Les femmes sont affectees hors de proportion par ces crimes qui ne sont meme pas reconnus par la societe et la justice. Cette torture doit etre reconnue comme une forme specifique de violence interpersonnelle dans les codes criminels de l’Etat alors que les Nations Unis sont outillees pour proteger les droits des femmes qui ne peuvent etre jugees, ne peuvent recevoir de l’aide pour une rehabilitation que les auteures jugent realisable.
International Journal of Advanced Nursing Education and Research
In 2000, Lynn, a Canadian woman, was considered by home care service providers too difficult a cl... more In 2000, Lynn, a Canadian woman, was considered by home care service providers too difficult a client and thus they sought to discontinue her care. That was until Lynn disclosed to the authors that twenty-five years ago, she had been held captive and subjected to torture and sexualized trafficking for over four years, perpetrated by her husband and three of his friends. This paper shares the non-State torture (NST) victimization-traumatization informed care developed by the authors beginning in 1993 when confronted by the fact that parents, spouses, guardians, and others inflict acts of violence in the domestic private sphere that manifests as torture. Shared are the authors' explanation of non-State torture and examples of nursing interventions such as trigger table care plans. It closes with the innovative suggestion of developing a nursing diagnosis to create nursing awareness about the provision of care to women who have suffered NST victimization. Examples of resources are included.
Journal of Human Trafficking
Journal of Human Trafficking