Latinas' Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violenceIn the American legal system valid witness-testimony is supposed to be invariable and unchanging, so defense attorneys highlight seeming inconsistencies in victims accounts to impeach their credibility. This book offers an examination of how and why victims of domestic violence might seem to be changing their stories, in the criminal justice system, which may leave them vulnerable to attack and criticism. Latinas Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violence investigates the discourse of protective order interviews, where women apply for court injunctions to keep abusers away. In these encounters, two different versions of violence, each influenced by a range of ethnolinguistic, intertextual and cultural factors, are always produced. This ethnography of Latina women narrating violence suggests that before victims even get to trial, their testimony involves much more than merely telling the truth. This book provides a unique look at pre-trial testimony as a collaborative and dynamic social and cultural act. |
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... First, Latinas, as are most victims of domestic violence, are relegated to a peripheral space within the Criminal Ius— tice System. And second, because of this type of ghettoization of the problem of domestic violence and of its victims ...
... First, Latinas, as are most victims of domestic violence, are relegated to a peripheral space within the Criminal Ius— tice System. And second, because of this type of ghettoization of the problem of domestic violence and of its victims ...
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... first two violations may result in criminal misdemeanor charges, while the third violation can result in a felony charge. Eligibility for an order is restricted in slightly different ways in the various states throughout the US In some ...
... first two violations may result in criminal misdemeanor charges, while the third violation can result in a felony charge. Eligibility for an order is restricted in slightly different ways in the various states throughout the US In some ...
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... First, the District Attorney's Office had a computerized database from which I could easily compile the statistics. And second, of all the agencies with which I worked during the data collection phase of this project, the paralegals in ...
... First, the District Attorney's Office had a computerized database from which I could easily compile the statistics. And second, of all the agencies with which I worked during the data collection phase of this project, the paralegals in ...
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... first four months of the year. Data records for this research were made complete by gleaning information from both in-take logs and the District Attorney's Computerized Victim Database in which paralegals enter information about both ...
... first four months of the year. Data records for this research were made complete by gleaning information from both in-take logs and the District Attorney's Computerized Victim Database in which paralegals enter information about both ...
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... first place. By couching an understanding of narrative within an interactional analytic model, Chapter 3 highlights the importance of situational factors that have an impact on the way narrative is achieved in the interview context ...
... first place. By couching an understanding of narrative within an interactional analytic model, Chapter 3 highlights the importance of situational factors that have an impact on the way narrative is achieved in the interview context ...
Contents
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5 The protective order interview | 87 |
6 Disappearing acts | 121 |
7 Disfigurement and discrepancy | 155 |
8 Transforming domestic violence into narrative syntax | 191 |
9 Beyond the storytelling taboo | 225 |
10 Discrepant versions and the margins | 269 |
References | 279 |
Glossary of legal terms | 295 |
Author index | 301 |
Subject index | 305 |
STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY | 315 |
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Latinas Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant Versions of Violence Shonna L. Trinch Limited preview - 2003 |
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