The Role of Alcohol in Initial Help-Seeking Telephone Calls About Domestic Violence to the Police-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Role of Alcohol in Initial Help-Seeking Telephone Calls About Domestic Violence to the Police

Published:2024-08-09 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1077-8012
Container-title:Violence Against Women
language:en
Short-container-title:Violence Against Women

Author:

Richardson Emma¹^ORCID,Alexander Marc²,Stokoe Elizabeth³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Communication and Media, School of Social Science and Humanities, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK

2. School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

3. Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Abstract

This article investigates how domestic violence and abuse (DVA), its underreporting and its links with alcohol consumption, manifest in and impact the outcome of help-seeking telephone calls to U.K.-based police services. Conversation analysis of call-takers’ questions about alcohol found that they either (a) focused only on the perpetrator's drinking, and occurred after informing callers that help was being dispatched, or (b) targeted both victims’ and perpetrators’ drinking and complicated the decisions to dispatch police assistance. The article helps specify the communicative practices that may constitute victims’ negative experiences of disclosing DVA to the police.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Link

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10778012241259725

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