Abstract
In the early part of 2009 while climbing up the steps to the high battlements of the Ankara Castle, I met another foreign woman climbing down. From that afternoon when we first greeted one another, I knew that we would be friends. Mary Anne McFarlane and I discovered that first chance meeting that we were both working in the area of providing services to victims of sexual and domestic violence. She was working with the Ministry of Justice and the Probation services in Turkey, and I was conducting research with Turkish psychiatrist colleagues and working with Turkish women’s organisations. When she invited me to provide some cross-cultural consultation and support to her project, I was happy for the chance to meet and work with new international colleagues and was glad for the chance to learn more about the Turkish justice system. This chapter is a discussion of some of the things I have learned from years of work as a clinical cross-cultural psychologist and project developer in the United States and Turkey.
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Welkin, L. (2014). Why Work across Cultures?. In: McFarlane, M.A., Canton, R. (eds) Policy Transfer in Criminal Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137300607_5
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