"Meet me at the hill where we used to park": Interpersonal processes associated with victim recantation
"Meet me at the hill where we used to park": Interpersonal processes associated with victim recantation
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.07.005
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发表时间：
2011-10-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Martin, David
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作者：
Bonomi, Amy E.;Gangamma, Rashmi;Martin, David
我们的研究使用了家庭暴力肇事者和受害者之间的现场电话交谈，以回答有关受害者如何以及为什么决定放弃和/或拒绝起诉的新问题。从2008年10月到2011年6月，我们进行了一项定性研究，涉及25对异性恋夫妇，其中男性犯罪者被关押在拘留所（在美国）。他以重罪家庭暴力的罪名起诉，并在起诉前给他的女受害人打过电话。我们使用了30-192分钟的对话数据，每对夫妇检查：1）人际关系的过程与受害者的意图撤回：和2）夫妇的建设撤回计划，一旦受害者打算撤回。我们使用建构主义扎根理论来指导数据分析，这允许构建一个新的撤回框架，同时承认潜在的强制性人际动态。我们的研究结果表明，在不同的夫妇中，受害者的翻供意图最受施暴者的影响，施暴者通过描述受害者遭受的精神和身体问题、无法忍受的监狱条件以及没有她的生活来吸引受害者的同情。施暴者对虐待的最小化以及夫妇对没有对方的生活的想象巩固了受害者的翻供意图。一旦受害者决定撤回，这对夫妇就制定了撤回计划，重新定义虐待事件以保护肇事者，指责国家造成夫妇分离，并就应该说什么或做什么交换具体指示。我们的研究结果通过在持续的互动背景下识别犯罪者使用的策略同情呼吁和最小化来成功说服他们的受害者和夫妇用来维护他们的关系的策略来推进科学知识。从业人员必须加倍努力，追究肇事者对其行为的责任，并努力将受害者与可帮助他们抵御肇事者复杂技术的可信律师联系起来。(C)2011爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
Our 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, we conducted a qualitative study involving 25 heterosexual couples, where the male perpetrator was being held in a Detention Facility (in the U.S.) for felony-level domestic violence and made telephone calls to his female victim during the pre-prosecution period. We used 30-192 min 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. We 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. Our results showed that consistently across couples, a victim's recantation intention was foremost influenced by the perpetrator's appeals to the victim's sympathy through descriptions of his suffering from mental and physical problems, intolerable jail conditions, and life without her. The intention was solidified by the perpetrator's minimization of the abuse, and the couple invoking images of life without each other. Once the victim arrived at her decision to recant, the couple constructed the recantation plan by redefining the abuse event to protect the perpetrator, blaming the State for the couple's separation, and exchanging specific instructions on what should be said or done. Our findings advance scientific knowledge through identifying, in the context of ongoing interactions, strategies perpetrators used-sympathy appeals and minimization-to successfully persuade their victim and strategies the couple used to preserve their relationship. Practitioners must double their efforts to hold perpetrators accountable for their actions, and efforts made to link victims to trusted advocates who can help them defend against perpetrators' sophisticated techniques. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.