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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2526-2552 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| Journal | Violence Against Women |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| Early online date | 9 Aug 2024 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2025 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 5 Gender Equality -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Keywords
- alcohol consumption
- conversation analysis
- domestic violence
- emergency calls
- question design
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Law
- Gender Studies
- Sociology and Political Science
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