Narratives of Domestic Violence: Policing, Identity, and Indexicality

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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. Cover Half title Title page Copyright information Dedication Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Extracts Notes on the Text Acknowledgments Introduction: Identities, Indexicality, and Ideology – Victims/Survivors and Police Officer Storying of Domestic Violence I.1 Victims, Survivors, Victims/Survivors I.2 Domestic Violence and Police Work I.3 Interaction and Discourse I.4 Narratives and Identity, Narrative Identity I.5 Indexicality, Social Meaning, and Identity I.6 Policing Domestic Violence I.7 Narrative Identities of Domestic Violence I.8 (Critical) Discourse Analysis I.9 Data Collection I.10 Book Structure I.11 Conclusions 1. Domestic Violence, Violence against Women, and Patriarchy 1.1 Domestic Violence: Big Pictures 1.2 Domestic Violence: Legal Histories and Patriarchy 1.3 Patriarchal Control: Intimate/Patriarchal Terrorism 1.4 Male Privilege: Coercive Control 1.5 Seeing Emotional and Physical Violence as Working Together 1.6 Domestic Violence, Law Enforcement, and Verbal/Emotional Violence 1.7 Same-Sex Relationships 1.8 Why Doesn.’.t She Just Leave? 1.9 Conclusions 2. Toward the Recreation of a Field of Indexicality: Domestic Violence, Social Meaning, and Ideology 2.1 The Indexical Field 2.1.1 Violence Stories 2.1.2 Staying/Leaving Stories 2.1.3 Family Stories 2.1.4 Policing 2.2 Mixed Stories: Connecting the Indexical Fields 2.3 Small Story in an Indexical Field 2.4 Small Story: I.’.m Not a Victim 2.5 Small Story: I.’.m Not an Abuser 2.6 Small Story about Policing Victim Behavior 2.7 Conclusions 3. Storying the Victim/Survivor: Identity, Domestic Violence, and Discourses of Agency 3.1 Iconization, Erasure, and Agented Nonagency 3.2 Staying/Leaving Stories of Violence 3.3 Iconization, Erasure, and Agency 3.4 Leaving and Staying: Policing Victim Identity 3.5 Police Iconization of Agented Nonagency 3.6 Victim/Survivor Accounts of Staying/Leaving 3.7 Accounting for Violence 3.8 Conclusions 4. Storying Policing: Identities of Police and Domestic Violence 4.1 Interaction and Identity 4.2 Policing Identity 4.3 Procedural Identity 4.3.1 Positioning in Relationship to Domestic Violence Victims: Frustration and Caring 4.4 Recalcitrant Victims 4.5 Conclusions 5. Conclusions: Toward a Reconceptualization of Domestic Violence C.1 Indexicality, Ideology, and Agency C.2 Identity and Narrative C.3 Identity, Policing Discourse, and Recalcitrant Victims C.4 Emotional Violence C.4.1 Coercion and Control, Agency and Choice C.4.2 Policing Discourse and Power C.5 Other and Future Topics C.6 Sexual Assault C.7 Conclusions References Index