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Podcast: New Books in Sociology
Episode: Police First Responders Interacting with Domestic Violence Victims
Description: In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Kate Steel, Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of the West of England, in Bristol, UK.Tazin and Kate discuss discursive management in the context of police first responders and domestic violence victims, focusing on Kate’s research in her 2024 paper ‘“Can I Have a Look?”: The Discursive Management of Victims’ Personal Space During Police First Response Call-Outs to Domestic Abuse Incidents’.Using body cam footage from police call outs for domestic violence incidents, this paper focuses on how the interaction betw...