TY - BOOK AU - Hamilton,Melissa ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Expert testimony on domestic violence: a discourse analysis T2 - Law and society AV - KF8968.7 .H36 2009 U1 - 345.73/02555 22 PY - 2009/// CY - El Paso PB - LFB Scholarly Pub. KW - Forensic sociology KW - United States KW - Evidence, Expert KW - Family violence KW - Law and legislation KW - Abused women KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - California KW - Cases KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-182) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries N2 - "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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=837741 ER -