Expert Testimony on Domestic Violence : a Discourse Analysis.

Expert Testimony on Domestic Violence : a Discourse Analysis.

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Hamilton examines the impact of social science evidence on legal reasoning in domestic violence cases. Relying on interdisciplinary theories and methodologies in law, Hamilton analyzes the text and rhetoric from a body of appellate opinions in which expert witnesses provided social science-based tes...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Hamilton, Melissa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2009.
Series:Recht und Gesellschaft.
Subjects:
Forensic sociology > United States.
Evidence, Expert > United States.
Family violence > Law and legislation > United States.
Abused women > Legal status, laws, etc. > California > Cases.
Abused women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Evidence, Expert.
Family violence > Law and legislation.
Forensic sociology.
California.
United States.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Feminist and social constructivist theories
  • Critical discourse analysis in the law
  • Expert witness discourse : the legal framework
  • Expert witness discourse : constructing the battered woman
  • The discourses of resistance.

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