In the context of home, violence remains more accepted when committed against children than adults. Normalisation of parental violence has been documented in attitudinal surveys, professional practices, and legal regulation. For example, in many countries violent disciplining of children is the only legal form of interpersonal violence. This study explores the societal invisibility and normalisation of parental violence as a crime by analysing legislation and control policies regulating the division of labour and involvement between social welfare and criminal justice authorities. An empirical case study from Finland, where all forms of parental violence were legally prohibited in 1983, is used to elucidate the divergence between (criminal) law and control policies. The analysis demonstrates how normalisation operates at the policy-level where, within the same system of control that criminalised these acts, structural hindrances are built to prevent criminal justice interventions.

在家庭环境中，针对儿童的暴力行为比成人更容易被接受。在态度调查、专业实践和法律法规中记录了父母暴力的正常化。例如，在许多国家，对儿童的暴力管教是人际暴力的唯一合法形式。本研究通过分析规范社会福利和刑事司法当局之间的分工和参与的立法和控制政策，探讨了作为犯罪的父母暴力的社会隐蔽性和正常化。芬兰的一个实证案例研究在 1983 年法律禁止所有形式的父母暴力，用于阐明（刑法）和控制政策之间的分歧。该分析展示了规范化如何在政策层面运作，其中，