'So Presumably Things Have Moved on Since Then?' The Management of Risk Allegations in Child Contact Dispute Resolution
'So Presumably Things Have Moved on Since Then?' The Management of Risk Allegations in Child Contact Dispute Resolution
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“那么从那以后事情可能已经发生了变化？”
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10.1093/lawfam/ebp010
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2009
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Trinder L
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Trinder L
在过去十年中，为确保家庭暴力和儿童保护问题在家庭司法系统内得到识别、评估和适当管理作出了相当大的努力。在作出这些努力之前，一直有批评称，有关伤害的指控在法庭程序中被忽视或边缘化，包括在涉及父母分居后的居住和联系纠纷的私法案件中。然而，在本文中，我们认为，在基于法院的争议解决中，损害指控继续被边缘化。我们的研究结果是基于对15次法庭调解或法庭纠纷解决会议的详细研究。我们使用对话分析来详细准确地检查指控是如何被忽视或降级的。我们发现，调解员通常会忽略、改写或拒绝指控，除非有现有的外部证据支持该指控。然而，边缘化发生的确切方式是背景和相互作用的，尤其是由父母提出的指控的特殊性或持久性所决定的。我们认为，调解员对指控的处理反映了对其机构角色和任务的特殊理解，这些角色和任务以和解、联系和案件处理为中心，似乎是以风险管理为代价的。
Over the past decade, considerable efforts have been made to ensure that domestic violence and child protection issues are identified, assessed, and managed appropriately within the family justice system. These efforts follow sustained criticism that allegations of harm have been previously overlooked or marginalised within court processes, including in private law cases concerning residence and contact disputes following parental separation. In this article, however, we argue that allegations of harm continue to be marginalised in court-based dispute resolution. Our findings are based on a detailed study of 15 in-court conciliation or court-based dispute resolution sessions. We use conversation analysis to examine in detail precisely how allegations are overlooked or downgraded. We find that conciliators routinely ignore, reframe, or reject allegations unless there is an existing external evidence to support the claim. However, the precise way in which marginalisation occurs is contextual and interactional, shaped not least by the specificity or persistence of allegations presented by parents. We suggest that the conciliator's handling of allegations reflects a particular understanding of their institutional role and tasks that centre upon settlement, contact, and case processing seemingly at the expense of risk management.