Clare Macmartin
Biographic Data
| ID | 153223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clare Macmartin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clare |
| FAMILY NAME | Macmartin |
| SIGNATURE | MACMARTIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-7199-6574 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Treating Distressed Animals as Participants
This article reports on video analyses of 110 veterinary appointments in which pet-directed I know receipts were uttered by 15 veterinarians as responses to companion animals’ vocal and visible signals of distress. Patients’ distress was typically occasioned by medical activities constituting the appointment. The dual functions of I know as a claim of (a) prior knowledge of animals’ experiences and (b) shared feelings and affiliation with animals…
Constructing Remorse
Remorse is an important consideration in sentencing, but the process of designating remorse has received little direct research attention. Using discursive psychology, the authors examine sentencing decisions in 74 cases of child sexual assault to identify the practices involved in judges' constructions of remorse. As expected, guilty pleas are used as evidence of remorse and vice versa. However, the judges do a good deal of additional work to su…
Multiple Involvements Within Group Interaction
This is a study of multiple involvements during group therapy for sex offenders. We examined excerpts from 32 hr of videotaped data to show how participants' vocal and visible behaviors may be interactively organized to advance or resist therapy. First, we show how a therapist's suspension and resumption of paperwork is an interactional resource when she corrects an offender's resistance to feedback. Second, we examine how an offender's gaze, hea…
Sexual Motives and Sentencing
The motives ascribed to offenders in the sentencing of sexual abuse crimes can be highly contentious. Some critics claim that sexual assaults are acts of power and violence and that reference to sexual motives minimizes violence and the seriousness of the offense. The present study examines 74 Canadian judicial sentencing decisions (1993-1997) involving offenders who had sexually abused children and adolescents. Using discursive social psychology…
(Un)reasonable Doubt? the Invocation of Children's Consent in Sexual Abuse Trial Judgments
The techniques of discursive psychology were used to analyze the discourse of offence descriptions in criminal trial judgments in recent cases of child sexual abuse in Canada. In certain cases, descriptions of the complaints provided resources that judges mobilized as a warrant for doubt by contrasting children's negative reception of sexual abuse with the innocuous or positive character of subsequent social contact with offenders. This argument …
The rhetoric of experimental social psychology, 1930-1960
Between 1930 and 1960, experimentation became the premier form of knowledge generation in social psychology. In journals, texts, and handbooks, experiment was now conceived as the active manipulation of an independent variable, and the sole method for the discovery of "causes." Understanding this change requires further investigation of the fine-grained discursive strategies used to promote experimentation during the 1930s and 1940s. In this pape…
Disclosure as Discourse
Conventional frameworks conceptualizing children's disclosures of sexual abuse are helpful in drawing links between the dynamics of abuse and its subsequent reporting (e.g. Summit, 1983) and in articulating developmental impediments to disclosure (e.g. Bussey & Grimbeek, 1995). But these models underemphasize the discursive (and, hence, social) basis of children's reports in that patterns of disclosure are depicted as individualistic phenomena. T…
Discourses on Discourse
Tseëlon presents an ambitious analysis of gender display that draws upon historical, empirical, psychoanalytic and cultural studies approaches. WiLkinson and Kitzinger offer discussions of empirical work (e.g. on sexual harassment) and considerations of discourse analysis as theory and method. The works address and exemplify the tensions between language as discourse and as situated utterance, and between relativism and commitment to political ch…
The Stubborn Particulars of Frances Cherry
Treating Distressed Animals as Participants
This article reports on video analyses of 110 veterinary appointments in which pet-directed I know receipts were uttered by 15 veterinarians as responses to companion animals’ vocal and visible signals of distress. Patients’ distress was typically occasioned by medical activities constituting the appointment. The dual functions of I know as a claim of (a) prior knowledge of animals’ experiences and (b) shared feelings and affiliation with animals…
Multiple Involvements Within Group Interaction
This is a study of multiple involvements during group therapy for sex offenders. We examined excerpts from 32 hr of videotaped data to show how participants' vocal and visible behaviors may be interactively organized to advance or resist therapy. First, we show how a therapist's suspension and resumption of paperwork is an interactional resource when she corrects an offender's resistance to feedback. Second, we examine how an offender's gaze, hea…
(Un)reasonable Doubt? the Invocation of Children's Consent in Sexual Abuse Trial Judgments
The techniques of discursive psychology were used to analyze the discourse of offence descriptions in criminal trial judgments in recent cases of child sexual abuse in Canada. In certain cases, descriptions of the complaints provided resources that judges mobilized as a warrant for doubt by contrasting children's negative reception of sexual abuse with the innocuous or positive character of subsequent social contact with offenders. This argument …
Constructing Remorse
Remorse is an important consideration in sentencing, but the process of designating remorse has received little direct research attention. Using discursive psychology, the authors examine sentencing decisions in 74 cases of child sexual assault to identify the practices involved in judges' constructions of remorse. As expected, guilty pleas are used as evidence of remorse and vice versa. However, the judges do a good deal of additional work to su…
Sexual Motives and Sentencing
The motives ascribed to offenders in the sentencing of sexual abuse crimes can be highly contentious. Some critics claim that sexual assaults are acts of power and violence and that reference to sexual motives minimizes violence and the seriousness of the offense. The present study examines 74 Canadian judicial sentencing decisions (1993-1997) involving offenders who had sexually abused children and adolescents. Using discursive social psychology…
The Stubborn Particulars of Frances Cherry
Discourses on Discourse
Tseëlon presents an ambitious analysis of gender display that draws upon historical, empirical, psychoanalytic and cultural studies approaches. WiLkinson and Kitzinger offer discussions of empirical work (e.g. on sexual harassment) and considerations of discourse analysis as theory and method. The works address and exemplify the tensions between language as discourse and as situated utterance, and between relativism and commitment to political ch…
Disclosure as Discourse
Conventional frameworks conceptualizing children's disclosures of sexual abuse are helpful in drawing links between the dynamics of abuse and its subsequent reporting (e.g. Summit, 1983) and in articulating developmental impediments to disclosure (e.g. Bussey & Grimbeek, 1995). But these models underemphasize the discursive (and, hence, social) basis of children's reports in that patterns of disclosure are depicted as individualistic phenomena. T…
The rhetoric of experimental social psychology, 1930-1960
Between 1930 and 1960, experimentation became the premier form of knowledge generation in social psychology. In journals, texts, and handbooks, experiment was now conceived as the active manipulation of an independent variable, and the sole method for the discovery of "causes." Understanding this change requires further investigation of the fine-grained discursive strategies used to promote experimentation during the 1930s and 1940s. In this pape…
(Un)reasonable Doubt? the Invocation of Children's Consent in Sexual Abuse Trial Judgments
The techniques of discursive psychology were used to analyze the discourse of offence descriptions in criminal trial judgments in recent cases of child sexual abuse in Canada. In certain cases, descriptions of the complaints provided resources that judges mobilized as a warrant for doubt by contrasting children's negative reception of sexual abuse with the innocuous or positive character of subsequent social contact with offenders. This argument …
Sexual Motives and Sentencing
The motives ascribed to offenders in the sentencing of sexual abuse crimes can be highly contentious. Some critics claim that sexual assaults are acts of power and violence and that reference to sexual motives minimizes violence and the seriousness of the offense. The present study examines 74 Canadian judicial sentencing decisions (1993-1997) involving offenders who had sexually abused children and adolescents. Using discursive social psychology…
Multiple Involvements Within Group Interaction
This is a study of multiple involvements during group therapy for sex offenders. We examined excerpts from 32 hr of videotaped data to show how participants' vocal and visible behaviors may be interactively organized to advance or resist therapy. First, we show how a therapist's suspension and resumption of paperwork is an interactional resource when she corrects an offender's resistance to feedback. Second, we examine how an offender's gaze, hea…
Constructing Remorse
Remorse is an important consideration in sentencing, but the process of designating remorse has received little direct research attention. Using discursive psychology, the authors examine sentencing decisions in 74 cases of child sexual assault to identify the practices involved in judges' constructions of remorse. As expected, guilty pleas are used as evidence of remorse and vice versa. However, the judges do a good deal of additional work to su…
Treating Distressed Animals as Participants
This article reports on video analyses of 110 veterinary appointments in which pet-directed I know receipts were uttered by 15 veterinarians as responses to companion animals’ vocal and visible signals of distress. Patients’ distress was typically occasioned by medical activities constituting the appointment. The dual functions of I know as a claim of (a) prior knowledge of animals’ experiences and (b) shared feelings and affiliation with animals…
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (3 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)