RT Article
T1 The Role of Alcohol in Initial Help-Seeking Telephone Calls About Domestic Violence to the Police
JF Violence against women
VO 31
IS 10
SP 2526
OP 2552
A1 Richardson, Emma
A1 Alexander, Marc
A1 Stokoe, Elizabeth
A2 Alexander, Marc
A2 Stokoe, Elizabeth
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1930397887
AB This article investigates how domestic violence and abuse (DVA), its underreporting and its links with alcohol consumption, manifest in and impact the outcome of help-seeking telephone calls to U.K.-based police services. Conversation analysis of call-takers’ questions about alcohol found that they either (a) focused only on the perpetrator's drinking, and occurred after informing callers that help was being dispatched, or (b) targeted both victims’ and perpetrators’ drinking and complicated the decisions to dispatch police assistance. The article helps specify the communicative practices that may constitute victims’ negative experiences of disclosing DVA to the police.
K1 Conversation Analysis
K1 question design
K1 Alcohol consumption
K1 emergency calls
K1 Domestic Violence
DO 10.1177/10778012241259725