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| 100 | _4Coates, Linda | ||
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_aTelling it how it isn't : _bobscuring perpetrator responsibility for violent crime _cLinda Coates and Allan Wade |
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_bSage, _c2004 |
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| 500 | _aDiscourse & Society, 2004, 15(5): 3-30 (Open access) | ||
| 500 | _aRecommended reading | ||
| 520 | _a"Part I of this article introduces the interactional and discursive view of violence and resistance, part II illustrates its application to the analysis of sexual assault trial judgments, and part III provides a detailed analysis of an entire judgment. In giving their reasons for verdicts and sentences, the majority of judges accounted for the assaults by drawing on psychological concepts and constructs. These psychological explanations or causal attributions were grouped into one or more of eight categories: alcohol and drug abuse, biological or sexual drive, psychopathology, dysfunctional family upbringing, stress and trauma, character or personality trait, emotional state, and loss of control. The causal attributions in all categories systematically reformulated deliberate acts of violence into non-deliberate and non-violent acts. Psychologizing attributions, that is, causal attributions that functioned to conceal the violence and mitigate the perpetrator’s responsibility, accounted for 97 percent of attributions. Through line-by-line analyses of the full text of one judgment, we show how psychologizing attributions are combined in use with other linguistic devices to (i) conceal violence, (ii) mitigate perpetrators’ responsibility, (iii) conceal victims’ resistance, and (iv) blame or pathologize victims. (Authors' abstract). Record #5350 | ||
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_aRECOMMENDED READING _96431 |
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_aABUSIVE MEN _926 |
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_aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE _9203 |
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_aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE _9431 |
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_aJUSTICE _9333 |
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_aLANGUAGE _96503 |
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_aPERPETRATORS _92644 |
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_aPSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS _9473 |
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_aVICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE _9624 |
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_aVIOLENCE _9629 |
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_aWade, Allan _96501 |
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| 773 | 0 | _tDiscourse & Society, 2004, 15(5): 3-30 (Open access) | |
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_aDiscourse & Society _94708 |
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| 856 | _uhttp://solutions-centre.org/pdf/Wade and Coates Telling it Like.pdf | ||
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_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926504045031 _yRead abstract |
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_2ddc _cARTICLE |
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