Doctoral Dissertation Research: Domestic Violence and the 'Family Man': Courtroom and Community Narrative About Domestically Violent Fathers in Rural, Urban and Suburban Settings

博士论文研究：家庭暴力和“顾家男人”：关于农村、城市和郊区家庭暴力父亲的法庭和社区叙述

• 批准号: 0211778
• 负责人: Francesca Cancian
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-07-15 至 2003-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0211778&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Domestic; Violence

This study examines narratives about domestically violent family men within three civil courtrooms situated in three geographically, racially, and economically diverse counties in Northern Kentucky. This research explores comparative narratives about domestic violence, family, and fatherhood in order to determine the ways in which the "domestically violent family man" may be differentially constituted by geographic location, race, and class. This study pays particular attention to the role of the legal institution in producing and reproducing these narratives through an examination of the power that legal institutional discourses have in shaping definitions of gendered identities, such as "domestically violent father." More specifically this study asks: What are people within and who encounter the legal arena saying about the intersections of domestic violence, family, and fatherhood? What are the processes by which visitation decisions are given to or denied from domestically violent fathers during protective order hearings, and what does this say about how the legal institution and society conceive of the intersections of domestic violence, family, and fatherhood? This research is comparative and will utilize a multi-method ethnographic approach to data collection including participant observation, content analysis of courtroom hearings, and open-ended interviews. The broader impacts of this research include informing the training and teaching received by those working with domestic violence in the legal arena about child witnesses to domestic violence and domestically violent fathers.

本研究考察了肯塔基州北部三个地理、种族和经济多样化县的三个民事法庭中有关家庭暴力家庭男性的叙述。本研究探讨了有关家庭暴力、家庭和父亲身份的比较叙述，以确定“家庭暴力家庭男人”可能因地理位置、种族和阶级而有差异的构成方式。本研究通过考察法律制度话语在塑造性别身份定义（例如“家庭暴力父亲”）方面的力量，特别关注法律制度在产生和复制这些叙事中的作用。更具体地说，本研究提出的问题是：法律领域内的人和接触过法律领域的人对家庭暴力、家庭和父亲身份的交叉点有何看法？在保护令听证会上，对家庭暴力父亲做出或拒绝探视决定的程序是什么？这说明了法律机构和社会如何看待家庭暴力、家庭和父亲身份的交叉点？ 这项研究是比较性的，将利用多种方法的人种学方法来收集数据，包括参与者观察、法庭听证会的内容分析和开放式访谈。这项研究的更广泛影响包括向法律领域从事家庭暴力工作的人员提供有关家庭暴力儿童证人和家庭暴力父亲的培训和教学信息。