Legal System Disclosure Experiences of Young Adult Children Exposed to Domestic Violence

Children exposed to domestic violence (CEDV) disclose their experiences to a variety of people, most commonly peers and less commonly formal (e.g., teacher) and legal (e.g., police) professionals. Legal system involvement and disclosure is more common than formal system disclosure yet remains understudied leaving unanswered questions about the nature of these disclosers and factors that influence the disclosure decision. Guided by communication privacy management theory and Johnson’s typology of domestic violence (DV), this study addressed gaps in the CEDV literature through a theoretical thematic analysis of the DV exposure and legal system involvement and disclosure experiences of 25 young adults (19-25 years; 23 women, 2 men; racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse college students) exposed to father-mother-perpetrated DV during their childhood. I specifically focused on factors that influenced their legal system involvement and disclosure decisions. Half of the participants had no legal system involvement (n = 12; nondisclosers) and half had at least some legal system involvement (n = 13; disclosers). Factors influencing the nondisclosures’ lack of legal system involvement included compartmentalizing their fathers’ violence, contextual constraints, and fearing their father, but some did discuss DV within their families whereas others never spoke about the DV. Over half of these young adults were categorized as being exposed to situational couple violence. Disclosers’ influencing varied based on initial versus subsequent disclosures. Initial disclosure factors included escalating violence and wanting to protect themselves or other family members, whereas subsequent disclosure factors were specific to whether their disclosure goal aligned with the outcome, familial responses upon disclosing and associated outcomes, and whether it produced a self-perceived positive (e.g., violence decreased) or negative (e.g., feeling blamed/guilty) outcome. The majority of these young adults were categorized as having been exposed to coercive controlling violence. Overall, these young adults’ legal system disclosure decisions were heavily dependent upon their family’s secrecy norms pertaining to non-familial involvement. This study has implications for practitioners working with DV-exposed youth, as our findings unpack the conditions under which youth choose to (not) disclose, the factors influencing these decisions, and how the responses and reactions from legal systems inform future disclosure decisions

Domestic Violence Exposure and Legal System Involvement Experiences of Young Adults: A Retrospective, Intersectional, Qualitative Study

Youth perspectives are missing from our understanding of the intersections between childhood interparental domestic violence exposure (CEDV) legal system interactions (e.g., law enforcement). To address this empirical and practical gap, this study applies intersectionality, theoretically and methodologically, to inform recruitment, data collection, and analysis of semi-structured interviews with 10 young adults with CEDV and subsequent legal system interactions. Intersectional multilevel analysis will guide the examination of how interlocking oppressive systems at multiple levels inform CEDV and legal system interaction experiences to inform empirically grounded recommendations for legal system providers, centering the needs and experiences of youth from historically and contemporarily marginalized and harmed families and communities. Findings from this study

Source-based nomenclature for single-strand homopolymers and copolymers (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)

IUPAC recommendations on source-based nomenclature for single-strand polymers have so far addressed its application mainly to copolymers, non-linear polymers and polymer assemblies, and within generic source-based nomenclature of polymers. In this document, rules are formulated for devising a satisfactory source-based name for a polymer, whether homopolymer or copolymer, which are as clear and rigorous as possible. Thus, the source-based system for naming polymers is presented in a totality that serves as a user-friendly alternative to the structure-based system of polymer nomenclature. In addition, because of their widespread and established use, recommendations for the use of traditional names of polymers are also elaborated

Analysis of the value chain of manufacturing company in terms of potential outsourcing

Cílem této diplomové práce je analyzovat hodnotový řetězec v organizaci s důrazem na údržbu strojního parku a navrhnout optimální strukturu údržby strojního parku v organizaci. Rozhodnutí o outsourcingu údržby se provádí na strategické úrovni podniku. Podle Porterova hodnotového řetězce je údržba strojního parku činnost, která zabezpečuje, aby výroba mohla probíhat plynule. Celkové náklady na in-house řešení údržby zahrnují pracovníky, zázemí a prostoje. Celkové náklady na outsourcing údržby navíc zahrnují ještě kromě předchozích i náklady na dojezd pracovníků. V případě společnosti Schwan Cosmetics CR, s. r. o. náklady na outsourcing převyšují náklady na in-house variantu a navíc nepřináší snížení prostojů, což je cílem údržby. Optimální struktura zohledňující výši nákladů a délku prostojů spočívá v zachování současného stavu, tedy v provozování údržby in-house.The target of this diploma thesis is to analyse value chain in company with focus on machinery park maintenance and to propose optimal structure of company machinery park maintenance. Maintenance outsourcing decision is made on company´s strategy level. According to Porter´s value chain, machinery park maintenance is an activity which ensures fluent production flow. Total in-house solution costs include workers, facility and downtimes. Total maintenance outsourcing costs contain all previous items and extra costs for mileage. In case of Schwan Cosmetics CR, s. r. o. company, outsourcing costs are higher than in-house costs and moreover outsourcing does not bring downtime decreasing which is main goal of company´s maintenance. Optimal structure taking into consideration costs and downtimes leans toward keeping state which is in-house maintenance pursuing