Expert Testimony on Domestic Violence : a Discourse Analysis.

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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Main Author: Hamilton, Melissa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2009.
Series:Recht und Gesellschaft.
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505 0 |a 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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