Then she got a spanking
Social accountability and narrative versions in social workers’ courtroom testimonies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5965633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna G Franzén (0000-0003-0466-1220, Stockholm University, corresponding author), Anna Franzén (Stockholm University), Karin Aronsson (0000-0002-7383-540X, Stockholm University) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 577-597 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461445618760605 |
| OpenAlex | W2796840416 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 26 |
Courtroom talk in child custody interrogations recurrently features contrasting event descriptions about ‘what happened’, as well as contrasting person descriptions. This case study - from a large set of audio-recorded courtroom examinations - documents how social workers’ contrasting narrative versions about alleged domestic violence are related to divergent problem formulations. Blame-account sequences feature descriptions of a particular event as violent or nonviolent and descriptions of a new partner as ‘non-adult’ or merely as ‘impulsive’ but ‘concerned’. Other contrasting person descriptions feature a target child either as ‘normal’ or as someone who ‘has a diagnosis’. This involves categorizations of the particular child either as a victim (‘normal child’) or as someone ‘with a diagnosis’, two contrasting accounts that provide divergent explanatory formulations of what the overall problem is. Ultimately, divergent testimonies also reflect how social accounts in court reflect both mitigated/aggravated descriptions of violence and divergent accounts of parents’ and children’s agency and accountability
Accountability · Blame · Criminology · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Child Abuse and Trauma · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice
Threats
Talk at work
Lectures on Conversation
Relations in Public. Microstudies of the Public Order
Doing actions with identity categories
Story formulations in talk-in-interaction
Violent Men as Good-enough Fathers
Contact Disputes
Mothers, Single Women and Sluts
I’m not gonna hit a lady’
Blame–account sequences in child custody disputes
Ordinary decent domestic violence’
Clients' and Therapist's Joint Construction of the Clients' Problems
"I'm a Bit Concerned"--Early Actions and Psychological Constructions in a Child Protection Helpline
Extreme Case Formulations
Reported Speech and Reported Affect in Child Custody Disputes
Two to Tango
Categories in action
Accounts
Blame-account sequences in therapy
A tutorial on membership categorization
The epistemics of social relations
Emotion Discourse
Script Formulations
Attributions of Responsibilty
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |