The role of alcohol in initial help-seeking telephone calls about domestic violence to the police

Richardson, Emma, Alexander, Marc and Stokoe, Elizabeth ORCID: 0000-0002-7353-4121 (2024) The role of alcohol in initial help-seeking telephone calls about domestic violence to the police. Violence Against Women. ISSN 1077-8012

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Authors
Divisions:	Psychological and Behavioural Science
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Date Deposited:	10 Apr 2024 15:48
Last Modified:	12 Nov 2024 22:51
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122605

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