Document Type

Article

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801218794296

Abstract

This exploratory study employs discourse and narrative analysis to assess men’s (n= 45) responses to a writing assignment completed at the end of a solution-focused voluntary batterer intervention program. The study finds that the men primarily use the assignment to reassure themselves of their future success, defined through traditionally male paradigms. The narrative analysis then divides the letters according to type: Participants (22.7%) use a “transformative” discourse of behavior change and intimate partner violence (IPV)-sustaining discourse (18.2%), but the plurality (38.6%) use both simultaneously. The ideological conflict demonstrated in these responses highlights how IPV-sustaining discourse is embedded within broader sociocultural discursive structures. [Kilgore, C., Lehman, P., & Voth Schrag, R., Discourse after a batterer intervention program: Letters from the future, Violence Against Women, 25(5), pp.593-613. Copyright © The Author(s) 2018. DOI: 10.1177/1077801218794296]

Disciplines

Social and Behavioral Sciences | Social Work

Publication Date

8-21-2018

Language

English

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