The role of alcohol in initial help-seeking telephone calls about domestic violence to the police

Emma Richardson; Marc Alexander; Elizabeth Stokoe

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The role of alcohol in initial help-seeking telephone calls about domestic violence to the police

Emma Richardson^*, Marc Alexander, Elizabeth Stokoe

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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.

Original language	English
Journal	Violence Against Women
Early online date	9 Aug 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012241259725
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 9 Aug 2024

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alcohol consumption
conversation analysis
domestic violence
emergency calls
question design

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Gender Studies
Sociology and Political Science

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