Jennifer L Dunn
Biographic Data
| ID | 233793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer L Dunn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer L |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunn |
| SIGNATURE | DUNN J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 196 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Public Water System Governance in Rural Montana, USA: A ‘Slow drip’ on Community Resilience
Recent waves of U.S. federal waterworks investments aim to repair material as well as socioeconomic deficits. Yet a growing recognition of the central role of local capacity in successful water resources and infrastructure governance raises questions about the extent to which such investments will engender more resilient rural communities. Synthesizing resilience theory with the drinking water governance literature, we use qualitative methods to …
How Do States Benefit from Nonstate Governance? Evidence from Forest Sustainability Certification
Forest sustainability certification is emblematic of governance mechanisms associated with neoliberal state reforms. Despite being conceived as a means of compensating for the unwillingness or inability of states to regulate forest practices, in practice, forest certification has come to entail complex and hybrid relationships between private-sector, civil society, and government actors. Indeed, states have increasingly embraced certification as …
Connecting the Dots: A Communications Model of the North Texas Integrated Warning Team during the 15 May 2013 Tornado Outbreak
On 15 May 2013, 19 tornadoes occurred across north and central Texas, killing 6, injuring over 50, and causing more than $100 million in property damage. The majority of the impacts to life and property were the direct result of category-3 and category-4 enhanced Fujita scale (EF-3 and EF-4) tornadoes that affected the communities of Cleburne and Granbury, Texas. This study focuses on an examination of the north Texas integrated warning team (IWT…
A case study of strategies for fostering international, interdisciplinary research
Be Ye Transformed”: The Sexual Storytelling of Ex-gay Participants
The ex-gay movement in the United States has, for the last three decades, argued that there can be “freedom from homosexuality.” We draw from eighteen in-depth, semi-structured interviews with individuals seeking help from an ex-gay ministry for same-sex attractions. We argue that the testimonies that “ex-gays” or “strugglers” we spoke with represent a distinct genre of story, what Kenneth Plummer would call a “sexual story,” such as, for example…
Rethinking Gender and Violence: Agency, Heterogeneity, and Intersectionality
This paper is a consideration of the increasing diversity of images of gender violence and its victims, as both the grassroots antiviolence activists, and the scholars of the movements and the violence that inspires the activism, engage with cultural codes and feeling rules that tend to narrow the criteria for what constitutes gender violence and victimization. We are coming to better understand that social location, including but not limited to …
Judging Victims: Why we Stigmatize Survivors, and How They Reclaim Respect
"Why didn't she resist?" "Why is he telling us only now?" "Why can't she move on?" Unpacking the questions that cast victims as deviants, Jennifer Dunn critically examines why we stigmatize survivors of rape, battering, incest, and clergy abuse—and how they reclaim their identities. Dunn explores the shifting perceptions over time of victims as blameworthy, blameless, pathetic, or heroic figures. She also links those images to their real-world co…
Vocabularies of Victimization: Toward Explaining the Deviant Victim
What can the sociology of deviance contribute to victimology, the sociology of social problems, and social movements scholarship? Drawing on the foundational deviance literature on vocabularies of motive, aligning activities, and accounts, I conceptualize the social construction of victims and victimization as deviant, and how deviant identities are managed in different definitional realms, from micro-level self-processes through the cultural cha…
A 'User's Guide' for Participating (and Studying Participation) in the Criminal Justice System
Accounting for Victimization: Social Constructionist Perspectives
This paper reviews research and theory on the social construction of victims and victimization. There are four areas of inquiry: victims’ self‐processes, the collaborative accomplishment of victimization, social problems claims‐making, and social movement framing. Scholars in each area take a symbolic interactionist perspective. Because victimization is potentially stigmatizing, much of this research and analysis draws on the literature on vocabu…
Everybody Makes Choices”: Victim Advocates and the Social Construction of Battered Women's Victimization and Agency
Semistructured interviews with 32 domestic violence victim advocates illuminate how advocates explain "battered women who stay." The interviews show that this behavior is a source of great frustration for advocates, who struggle to simultaneously conceive of battered women as victims trapped by social, psychological, and interactional forces and as agents whose choices must be respected. The authors argue that their organizational subculture and …
When Ontologies Collide it's a Slippery Slide: Differing Representations of the Social Construction of Child Sexual Abuse
ization through the mediating of the trauma model in survivor therapy, while Kitzinger addresses the role of the media in perpetuating a completely different set of understandings. This is rooted, I believe, in a perhaps even more fundamental difference. The authors have different ontologies. Davis's is reflexively and consistently constructionist and Kitzinger's is, perhaps inadvertently, objectivist at its core. After discussing each scholar's …
Victims' and 'Survivors: Emerging Vocabularies of Motive for 'Battered Women Who Stay
This paper reviews the literature providing reasons for why battered women "stay" in abusive relationships and examines the emergence of images of battered women as "survivors" in early and contemporary activists' discourses, drawing on ideas from social constructionist approaches to social problems, identity, and deviance to explore this phenomenon. Most of the early representations of battered women I analyze emphasize their emotionality and th…
The Politics of Empathy: Social Movements and Victim Repertoires
I draw from the sociology of social problems, social movements, and emotions to consider the articulation of cultural resonance and feeling rules in the framing of victims by social movement activists. I theorize that “political empathy,” expressed in policy and through collective identification, is related to social evaluations, attributions of agency, normative emotional responses, and frame resonance. Frames appealing to broad audiences and in…
Courting Disaster: Intimate Stalking, Culture, and Criminal Justice
This work is a wide-ranging and sensitive examination of the lived experience of intimate stalking victimization. It explores how it feels and what it means to be stalked by a former intimate and how this situation creates dilemmas for victims and their advocates. What is it like to try to become a victim in the eyes of the law and then to remain one, when almost anything a woman does to manage the violent emotions of an ex-husband or ex-boyfrien…
The Jackknife and Multilevel Modeling: A New Application of an Old Trick
In this article the authors demonstrate two instances where the jackknife can be used to enhance hierarchical linear model (HLM) analyses. The jackknife was used to improve the HLM estimates of composite measures by jackknifing over items. The first study examined fixed-effects and variance component estimation. The jackknife appeared to reduce the bias in the estimates both of slopes and of variances by implicitly adjusting for item-by-person an…
Innocence Lost: Accomplishing Victimization in Intimate Stalking Cases
This article explores identity work and emotion management in felony domestic violence stalking cases, using data collected in a domestic violence unit in a large metropolitan district attorney's office. Victim narratives in crime reports, intensive interviews of stalking victims, and participant observation in a stalking survivors' support group show how women become 'victims' in the criminal justice system. Sometimes women's continued interacti…
What Love Has to Do with It: The Cultural Construction of Emotion and Sorority Women's Responses to Forcible Interaction
This paper examines 268 sorority women's interpretations of and emotional responses to a range of hypothetical and real attempts at forcible interaction (ranging from “pestering” to “stalking”) in dating and long-term relationships they seek to terminate. 1 analyze quantitative and qualitative survey data from an interactionist perspective, focusing on the influence of romantic cultural imagery and the effect of relational circumstance in hypothe…
Defining Women: Notes Toward an Understanding of Structure and Agency in the Negotiation of Sex
A preliminary analysis of undergraduate women's accounts of early sexual experience examines structural factors and interpretations of these frameworks to explain decision making. The author articulates coercive historical, cultural, and hierarchical contexts; processes of interpretation; and interactional strategies. An examination of tactics women employ in their quest for valued identities shifts attention from victimization and agency to the …
Victims' and 'Survivors: Emerging Vocabularies of Motive for 'Battered Women Who Stay
This paper reviews the literature providing reasons for why battered women "stay" in abusive relationships and examines the emergence of images of battered women as "survivors" in early and contemporary activists' discourses, drawing on ideas from social constructionist approaches to social problems, identity, and deviance to explore this phenomenon. Most of the early representations of battered women I analyze emphasize their emotionality and th…
The Politics of Empathy: Social Movements and Victim Repertoires
I draw from the sociology of social problems, social movements, and emotions to consider the articulation of cultural resonance and feeling rules in the framing of victims by social movement activists. I theorize that “political empathy,” expressed in policy and through collective identification, is related to social evaluations, attributions of agency, normative emotional responses, and frame resonance. Frames appealing to broad audiences and in…
Everybody Makes Choices”: Victim Advocates and the Social Construction of Battered Women's Victimization and Agency
Semistructured interviews with 32 domestic violence victim advocates illuminate how advocates explain "battered women who stay." The interviews show that this behavior is a source of great frustration for advocates, who struggle to simultaneously conceive of battered women as victims trapped by social, psychological, and interactional forces and as agents whose choices must be respected. The authors argue that their organizational subculture and …
Innocence Lost: Accomplishing Victimization in Intimate Stalking Cases
This article explores identity work and emotion management in felony domestic violence stalking cases, using data collected in a domestic violence unit in a large metropolitan district attorney's office. Victim narratives in crime reports, intensive interviews of stalking victims, and participant observation in a stalking survivors' support group show how women become 'victims' in the criminal justice system. Sometimes women's continued interacti…
Accounting for Victimization: Social Constructionist Perspectives
This paper reviews research and theory on the social construction of victims and victimization. There are four areas of inquiry: victims’ self‐processes, the collaborative accomplishment of victimization, social problems claims‐making, and social movement framing. Scholars in each area take a symbolic interactionist perspective. Because victimization is potentially stigmatizing, much of this research and analysis draws on the literature on vocabu…
Defining Women: Notes Toward an Understanding of Structure and Agency in the Negotiation of Sex
A preliminary analysis of undergraduate women's accounts of early sexual experience examines structural factors and interpretations of these frameworks to explain decision making. The author articulates coercive historical, cultural, and hierarchical contexts; processes of interpretation; and interactional strategies. An examination of tactics women employ in their quest for valued identities shifts attention from victimization and agency to the …
Vocabularies of Victimization: Toward Explaining the Deviant Victim
What can the sociology of deviance contribute to victimology, the sociology of social problems, and social movements scholarship? Drawing on the foundational deviance literature on vocabularies of motive, aligning activities, and accounts, I conceptualize the social construction of victims and victimization as deviant, and how deviant identities are managed in different definitional realms, from micro-level self-processes through the cultural cha…
How Do States Benefit from Nonstate Governance? Evidence from Forest Sustainability Certification
Forest sustainability certification is emblematic of governance mechanisms associated with neoliberal state reforms. Despite being conceived as a means of compensating for the unwillingness or inability of states to regulate forest practices, in practice, forest certification has come to entail complex and hybrid relationships between private-sector, civil society, and government actors. Indeed, states have increasingly embraced certification as …
Be Ye Transformed”: The Sexual Storytelling of Ex-gay Participants
The ex-gay movement in the United States has, for the last three decades, argued that there can be “freedom from homosexuality.” We draw from eighteen in-depth, semi-structured interviews with individuals seeking help from an ex-gay ministry for same-sex attractions. We argue that the testimonies that “ex-gays” or “strugglers” we spoke with represent a distinct genre of story, what Kenneth Plummer would call a “sexual story,” such as, for example…
Rethinking Gender and Violence: Agency, Heterogeneity, and Intersectionality
This paper is a consideration of the increasing diversity of images of gender violence and its victims, as both the grassroots antiviolence activists, and the scholars of the movements and the violence that inspires the activism, engage with cultural codes and feeling rules that tend to narrow the criteria for what constitutes gender violence and victimization. We are coming to better understand that social location, including but not limited to …
Public Water System Governance in Rural Montana, USA: A ‘Slow drip’ on Community Resilience
Recent waves of U.S. federal waterworks investments aim to repair material as well as socioeconomic deficits. Yet a growing recognition of the central role of local capacity in successful water resources and infrastructure governance raises questions about the extent to which such investments will engender more resilient rural communities. Synthesizing resilience theory with the drinking water governance literature, we use qualitative methods to …
What Love Has to Do with It: The Cultural Construction of Emotion and Sorority Women's Responses to Forcible Interaction
This paper examines 268 sorority women's interpretations of and emotional responses to a range of hypothetical and real attempts at forcible interaction (ranging from “pestering” to “stalking”) in dating and long-term relationships they seek to terminate. 1 analyze quantitative and qualitative survey data from an interactionist perspective, focusing on the influence of romantic cultural imagery and the effect of relational circumstance in hypothe…
When Ontologies Collide it's a Slippery Slide: Differing Representations of the Social Construction of Child Sexual Abuse
ization through the mediating of the trauma model in survivor therapy, while Kitzinger addresses the role of the media in perpetuating a completely different set of understandings. This is rooted, I believe, in a perhaps even more fundamental difference. The authors have different ontologies. Davis's is reflexively and consistently constructionist and Kitzinger's is, perhaps inadvertently, objectivist at its core. After discussing each scholar's …
Defining Women: Notes Toward an Understanding of Structure and Agency in the Negotiation of Sex
A preliminary analysis of undergraduate women's accounts of early sexual experience examines structural factors and interpretations of these frameworks to explain decision making. The author articulates coercive historical, cultural, and hierarchical contexts; processes of interpretation; and interactional strategies. An examination of tactics women employ in their quest for valued identities shifts attention from victimization and agency to the …
What Love Has to Do with It: The Cultural Construction of Emotion and Sorority Women's Responses to Forcible Interaction
This paper examines 268 sorority women's interpretations of and emotional responses to a range of hypothetical and real attempts at forcible interaction (ranging from “pestering” to “stalking”) in dating and long-term relationships they seek to terminate. 1 analyze quantitative and qualitative survey data from an interactionist perspective, focusing on the influence of romantic cultural imagery and the effect of relational circumstance in hypothe…
Innocence Lost: Accomplishing Victimization in Intimate Stalking Cases
This article explores identity work and emotion management in felony domestic violence stalking cases, using data collected in a domestic violence unit in a large metropolitan district attorney's office. Victim narratives in crime reports, intensive interviews of stalking victims, and participant observation in a stalking survivors' support group show how women become 'victims' in the criminal justice system. Sometimes women's continued interacti…
Courting Disaster: Intimate Stalking, Culture, and Criminal Justice
This work is a wide-ranging and sensitive examination of the lived experience of intimate stalking victimization. It explores how it feels and what it means to be stalked by a former intimate and how this situation creates dilemmas for victims and their advocates. What is it like to try to become a victim in the eyes of the law and then to remain one, when almost anything a woman does to manage the violent emotions of an ex-husband or ex-boyfrien…
The Jackknife and Multilevel Modeling: A New Application of an Old Trick
In this article the authors demonstrate two instances where the jackknife can be used to enhance hierarchical linear model (HLM) analyses. The jackknife was used to improve the HLM estimates of composite measures by jackknifing over items. The first study examined fixed-effects and variance component estimation. The jackknife appeared to reduce the bias in the estimates both of slopes and of variances by implicitly adjusting for item-by-person an…
The Politics of Empathy: Social Movements and Victim Repertoires
I draw from the sociology of social problems, social movements, and emotions to consider the articulation of cultural resonance and feeling rules in the framing of victims by social movement activists. I theorize that “political empathy,” expressed in policy and through collective identification, is related to social evaluations, attributions of agency, normative emotional responses, and frame resonance. Frames appealing to broad audiences and in…
Victims' and 'Survivors: Emerging Vocabularies of Motive for 'Battered Women Who Stay
This paper reviews the literature providing reasons for why battered women "stay" in abusive relationships and examines the emergence of images of battered women as "survivors" in early and contemporary activists' discourses, drawing on ideas from social constructionist approaches to social problems, identity, and deviance to explore this phenomenon. Most of the early representations of battered women I analyze emphasize their emotionality and th…
When Ontologies Collide it's a Slippery Slide: Differing Representations of the Social Construction of Child Sexual Abuse
ization through the mediating of the trauma model in survivor therapy, while Kitzinger addresses the role of the media in perpetuating a completely different set of understandings. This is rooted, I believe, in a perhaps even more fundamental difference. The authors have different ontologies. Davis's is reflexively and consistently constructionist and Kitzinger's is, perhaps inadvertently, objectivist at its core. After discussing each scholar's …
Everybody Makes Choices”: Victim Advocates and the Social Construction of Battered Women's Victimization and Agency
Semistructured interviews with 32 domestic violence victim advocates illuminate how advocates explain "battered women who stay." The interviews show that this behavior is a source of great frustration for advocates, who struggle to simultaneously conceive of battered women as victims trapped by social, psychological, and interactional forces and as agents whose choices must be respected. The authors argue that their organizational subculture and …
Accounting for Victimization: Social Constructionist Perspectives
This paper reviews research and theory on the social construction of victims and victimization. There are four areas of inquiry: victims’ self‐processes, the collaborative accomplishment of victimization, social problems claims‐making, and social movement framing. Scholars in each area take a symbolic interactionist perspective. Because victimization is potentially stigmatizing, much of this research and analysis draws on the literature on vocabu…
A 'User's Guide' for Participating (and Studying Participation) in the Criminal Justice System
Judging Victims: Why we Stigmatize Survivors, and How They Reclaim Respect
"Why didn't she resist?" "Why is he telling us only now?" "Why can't she move on?" Unpacking the questions that cast victims as deviants, Jennifer Dunn critically examines why we stigmatize survivors of rape, battering, incest, and clergy abuse—and how they reclaim their identities. Dunn explores the shifting perceptions over time of victims as blameworthy, blameless, pathetic, or heroic figures. She also links those images to their real-world co…
Vocabularies of Victimization: Toward Explaining the Deviant Victim
What can the sociology of deviance contribute to victimology, the sociology of social problems, and social movements scholarship? Drawing on the foundational deviance literature on vocabularies of motive, aligning activities, and accounts, I conceptualize the social construction of victims and victimization as deviant, and how deviant identities are managed in different definitional realms, from micro-level self-processes through the cultural cha…
Rethinking Gender and Violence: Agency, Heterogeneity, and Intersectionality
This paper is a consideration of the increasing diversity of images of gender violence and its victims, as both the grassroots antiviolence activists, and the scholars of the movements and the violence that inspires the activism, engage with cultural codes and feeling rules that tend to narrow the criteria for what constitutes gender violence and victimization. We are coming to better understand that social location, including but not limited to …
Be Ye Transformed”: The Sexual Storytelling of Ex-gay Participants
The ex-gay movement in the United States has, for the last three decades, argued that there can be “freedom from homosexuality.” We draw from eighteen in-depth, semi-structured interviews with individuals seeking help from an ex-gay ministry for same-sex attractions. We argue that the testimonies that “ex-gays” or “strugglers” we spoke with represent a distinct genre of story, what Kenneth Plummer would call a “sexual story,” such as, for example…
A case study of strategies for fostering international, interdisciplinary research
Connecting the Dots: A Communications Model of the North Texas Integrated Warning Team during the 15 May 2013 Tornado Outbreak
On 15 May 2013, 19 tornadoes occurred across north and central Texas, killing 6, injuring over 50, and causing more than $100 million in property damage. The majority of the impacts to life and property were the direct result of category-3 and category-4 enhanced Fujita scale (EF-3 and EF-4) tornadoes that affected the communities of Cleburne and Granbury, Texas. This study focuses on an examination of the north Texas integrated warning team (IWT…
How Do States Benefit from Nonstate Governance? Evidence from Forest Sustainability Certification
Forest sustainability certification is emblematic of governance mechanisms associated with neoliberal state reforms. Despite being conceived as a means of compensating for the unwillingness or inability of states to regulate forest practices, in practice, forest certification has come to entail complex and hybrid relationships between private-sector, civil society, and government actors. Indeed, states have increasingly embraced certification as …
Public Water System Governance in Rural Montana, USA: A ‘Slow drip’ on Community Resilience
Recent waves of U.S. federal waterworks investments aim to repair material as well as socioeconomic deficits. Yet a growing recognition of the central role of local capacity in successful water resources and infrastructure governance raises questions about the extent to which such investments will engender more resilient rural communities. Synthesizing resilience theory with the drinking water governance literature, we use qualitative methods to …
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