"Can I Have a Look?": The Discursive Management of Victims' Personal Space During Police First Response Call-Outs to Domestic Abuse Incidents
"Can I Have a Look?": The Discursive Management of Victims' Personal Space During Police First Response Call-Outs to Domestic Abuse Incidents
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“我可以看一下吗？”：警察在家庭暴力事件第一反应中对受害人个人空间的话语管理
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10.1007/s11196-023-10050-x
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2023
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Steel K
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家庭暴力既是一种生活经历，又是一种犯罪，其复杂性给警察紧急出动现场带来了独特的沟通挑战。空间是这些遭遇者的一个突出而复杂的特征，需要机构和私人的并置，一线官员在发生虐待的同一空间中寻找受害者的虐待证据。本文探讨了演讲者如何处理这些遭遇中一个明显突出的方面：警察进入受害者的个人空间，检查并拍摄他们的伤势。与在正式调查访谈中致力于保护弱势受害者个人“气泡”空间的注意力相比，第一反应指南允许参与者有更多余地根据每种情况的不可预测的需求来调整自己的行为。我在这里介绍两个案例研究，它们是对向英国警察部队报告的家庭暴力事件的第一反应呼叫的更广泛研究的一部分。音频数据是从警察佩戴的视频片段中提取并转录的，视觉信息以线性方式表示。通过对话分析，我研究了使个人空间与展开的对话相关并产生影响的微交互方式，重点是如何以话语方式（重新）构建空间的所有权和控制权。分析表明，进入受害者的个人空间可以通过加强他们被剥夺权力的地位或为他们提供一定控制权的方式进行管理。研究结果对受害者的潜在脆弱性、警察与受害者的关系以及所产生证据的性质具有影响。
The complexities of domestic abuse as both a lived experience and a crime generate unique communicative challenges at the scene of emergency police call-outs. Space is a prominent and complex feature of these ecounters, entailing a juxtaposition of the institutional and the private, whereby frontline officers seek evidence of abuse from victims in the same space in which the abuse occurred. This paper explores how speakers manage one evidentially salient aspect of these encounters: officers’ advancement into victim’s immediate personal space to inspect and photograph their injuries. As compared with the attention dedicated to preserving vulnerable victims’ personal ‘bubble’ of space in formal investigative interviews, first response guidelines allow participants more leeway to adapt their behaviour according to the unpredictable demands of each situation. I present two case studies here which form part of a wider study of first response call-outs to domestic abuse incidents reported to a UK police force. The audio data have been extracted from police body-worn video footage and transcribed, with visual information represented intralinearly. Through conversation analysis, I examine the microinteractional means by which personal space is made relevant and consequential to the unfolding talk, with a focus on how ownership rights and control over the space are (re)constructed discursively. Analysis demonstrates that entering victims’ personal space can be managed in ways that either reinforce their disempowered position or afford them some control. The findings have implications in relation to victims’ potential vulnerability, police-victim relations and the nature of the evidence produced.