Easteal, Patricia L.; Bartels, Lorana; Bradford, Sally - 2012
paper illustrates how the language used to describe violence against women may act to minimise these acts and the dominant … perception in the context of the criminal justice system. In particular, we consider the language of domestic violence and sexual … conversational style and female violence victims’ genderlect may collide to produce evidentiary issues and a credibility gap. We …
