Expert testimony on domestic violence
Subtitle: a discourse analysis
By: Melissa Hamilton.
Series: Law and society: recent scholarship
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Pub.; Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc
Published: 2009
Place of publication: El Paso
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781593323233
Subjects: Forensic sociology -- United States; Evidence, Expert -- United States; Family violence -- Law and legislation -- United States; Abused women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- California -- Cases
Description: "Examines the impact of social science evidence on legal reasoning in domestic violence cases, analyzing the text and rhetoric from a body of appellate opinions in which expert witnesses provided social science-based testimony about domestic violence"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Feminist and social constructivist theories; title: Critical discourse analysis in the law; title: Expert witness discourse : the legal framework; title: Expert witness discourse : constructing the battered woman; title: The discourses of resistance.