Narratives of Domestic Violence: Policing, Identity, and Indexicality

ISBN-13: 9781108839525 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 280 str.

Jennifer Andrus

Opis

Drawing on data from interviews with domestic violence victims and police officers, Andrus analyses the narratives of their interactions.

Recenzje

'This work is adequately referenced and indexed, and suitable for libraries serving departments with graduate programs in counseling, criminal justice, criminology, psychology, social work, or sociology … Recommended.' R. T. Sigler, Choice

Spis treści

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.