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040 _aAFVC
100 _aHarris, Bridget A.
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245 _aVisualising violence? :
_bcapturing and critiquing body-worn video camera evidence of domestic and family violence
_cBridget A. Harris
260 _bRoutledge,
_c2020
500 _aCurrent Issues in Criminal Justice, 2020, Advance online publication, 24 October 2020
520 _aHeralded as an evidentiary ‘game changer’, body-worn video cameras (BWVCs) have recently been utilised by justice agents in domestic and family violence (DFV) responses. Proponents assert that BWVC footage can: strengthen evidential cases; improve the probability of guilty pleas or convictions; reduce State expenditure; and bolster police accountability and perceptions of procedural justice. There has been little consideration of how BWVCs might shape victim/survivor experiences of the justice system. In this article, I discuss (and foreground) missing voices on BWVCs, drawing on a project completed with Australian female victim/survivors. I unpack issues that women have flagged as important; whether or not BWVC footage might prompt reviews of police actions and failures to act, serve their best interests and impact their journey through the justice system. Exploring interdisciplinary literature and police and judicial statements in public discourse, I examine expectations about how women present and understandings of the dynamics and effects of DFV. Questioning claims that BWVCs provide neutral footage, I contend that representations are subject to interpretation, governed by practical, ideological and social standpoints, biases and constraints. To study BWVC evidence we must consider the media, the incident-based focus of BWVCs and the relationality between image and spectator. (Author's abstract). Record #6898
650 _aABUSED WOMEN
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650 _aCRIMINAL JUSTICE
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650 _aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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650 4 _9237
_aEVIDENCE
650 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
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650 4 _9445
_aPOLICE PROCEDURES
650 _aTECHNOLOGY
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650 4 _aVICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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651 _aINTERNATIONAL
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651 4 _aAUSTRALIA
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773 0 _tCurrent Issues in Criminal Justice, 2020, Advance online publication, 24 October 2020
830 _aCurrent Issues in Criminal Justice
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856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2020.1831730
_zDOI: 10.1080/10345329.2020.1831730
942 _2ddc
_cARTICLE