"Meet me at the hill where we used to park" : interpersonal processes associated with victim recantation Amy E. Bonomi, Rashmi Gangamma, Chris R. Locke, Heather Katafiasz, & David Martin
By: Bonomi, Amy E
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ArticleSeries: Social Science & Medicine.Publisher: Elsevier, 2011Subject(s): RECOMMENDED READING | ABUSED WOMEN | ABUSIVE MEN | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | EVIDENCE | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | JUSTICE | PERPETRATORS | VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | UNITED STATESOnline resources: Read the abstract
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Social Science & Medicine, 2011, 73(7): 1054-1061Summary: This study used live telephone conversations between domestic violence perpetrators and victims to answer novel questions about how and why victims arrive at their decision to recant and/or refuse prosecution efforts. From October 2008 to June 2011, the researchers conducted a qualitative study involving 25 heterosexual couples, where the male perpetrator was being held in a Detention Facility (in the United States) for felony-level domestic violence and made telephone calls to his female victim during the pre-prosecution period. The researchers used 30–192 minutes of conversational data for each couple to examine: 1) interpersonal processes associated with the victim’s intention to recant; and 2) the couple’s construction of the recantation plan once the victim intended to recant. The researchers used constructivist grounded theory to guide data analysis, which allowed for the construction of a novel recantation framework, while acknowledging the underlying coercive interpersonal dynamic. (From the abstract). Record #4913
Social Science & Medicine, 2011, 73(7): 1054-1061
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This study used live telephone conversations between domestic violence perpetrators and victims to answer novel questions about how and why victims arrive at their decision to recant and/or refuse prosecution efforts. From October 2008 to June 2011, the researchers conducted a qualitative study involving 25 heterosexual couples, where the male perpetrator was being held in a Detention Facility (in the United States) for felony-level domestic violence and made telephone calls to his female victim during the pre-prosecution period. The researchers used 30–192 minutes of conversational data for each couple to examine: 1) interpersonal processes associated with the victim’s intention to recant; and 2) the couple’s construction of the recantation plan once the victim intended to recant. The researchers used constructivist grounded theory to guide data analysis, which allowed for the construction of a novel recantation framework, while acknowledging the underlying coercive interpersonal dynamic. (From the abstract). Record #4913
