On the top floor of a special hospital, Winterbourne View, at…

Question Answered step-by-step On the top floor of a special hospital, Winterbourne View, at… On the top floor of a special hospital, Winterbourne View, at Hambrook, South Gloucestershire in England, locked away from their families and friends, a group of men and women were subjected to a regimen of physical assaults, systematic brutality, and torture by the very people supposed to be caring for them. The victims were some of the most vulnerable in society – the learning disabled, the autistic, and the suicidal. Posing as a care worker, the BBC’s Panorama reporter Joe Casey recorded footage of residents being abused. Winterbourne View, at Hambrook, South Gloucestershire, was closed in the wake of the scandal, with the judge praising the television investigator for stopping what had been ‘systematic abuse’. Police in Bristol have arrested four people after secret filming by BBC Panorama found a pattern of serious abuse at this residential hospital.” (BBC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioWkb5eig1c1. What examples of abuse do you observe?2. How do you think a situation like this could ever happen? 3. Conduct some research of your own to find out what safeguards are put in place in Canada to prevent this from occurring.4. Who were the heroes in this story?5. Find one recent (last two years) media article of a situation in Canada where seniors or the disabled were being abused. Provide a link to the news article.6. In what ways are the news stories the same and different?7. Why is abuse of this very special population almost invisible? Law Social Science Criminal Justice CRIM 1201 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)