“Can I have a look?”: The discursive management of victims’ personal space during police first response call-outs to domestic abuse incidents
(2023)
Journal Article
Steel, K. (2024). “Can I have a look?”: The discursive management of victims’ personal space during police first response call-outs to domestic abuse incidents. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 37(2), 547-572. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-023-10050-x
The complexities of domestic abuse as both a lived experience and a crime generate unique communicative challenges at the scene of emergency police call-outs. Space is a prominent and complex feature of these ecounters, entailing a juxtaposition of t... Read More about “Can I have a look?”: The discursive management of victims’ personal space during police first response call-outs to domestic abuse incidents.