Narratives of Domestic Violence

Policing, Identity, and Indexicality

AvJennifer Andrus

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Domestic violence is an intractable social problem that must be understood in order to be eradicated. Using theories of indexicality, identity, and narrative, Andrus presents data from interviews she conducted with victims and law enforcement, and analyses the narratives of their interactions and the identities that emerge. She gives insight into law enforcement views on violence, and prevalent misconceptions, in order to create resources to improve communication with victim/survivors. She also analyzes the ways in which identity emerges and is performed via narrative constructions of domestic violence and encounters between police and victim/survivors. By giving voice to the victims of domestic violence, this book provides powerful insights into the ways that ideology and commonplace misconceptions impact the social construction of domestic violence. It will be invaluable to students and researchers in discourse analysis, applied linguistics and forensic linguistics.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-03-07
Mått:151 x 228 x 13 mm
Vikt:350 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108813280

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Jennifer Andrus is an Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric Studies at the University of Utah, where she teaches courses on discourse analysis, legal rhetoric, and gender and rhetoric. Dr Andrus's research for the last decade has been on domestic violence and the Anglo-American law of evidence and law enforcement.

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'Ground-breaking and thought-provoking: Jennifer Andrus presents a compelling analysis of the narratives of domestic violence by victims/survivors and police officers, revealing discourses and social meanings that maintain and support this violence.' Diana Eades, Adjunct Professor, University of New England

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Introduction. Identities, indexicality, and ideology: victim/survivors and police officer storying of domestic violence; 1. Domestic violence, violence against women, and patriarchy; 2. Toward the recreation of a field of indexicality: domestic violence, social meaning, and ideology; 3. Storying the victim/survivor: identity, domestic violence, and discourses of agency; 4. Storying policing: identities of police and domestic violence; Conclusions. Toward a reconceptualization of domestic violence; References; Index.