TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Discourse after a batterer intervention program: a qualitative analysis of "Letters From the Future"
JO  - Violence against women
A1  - Kilgore, Christopher D.
A1  - Lehmann, Peter
A1  - Voth Schrag, Rachel J.
SP  - 593
EP  - 613
VL  - 25
IS  - 5
N2  - This exploratory study employs discourse and narrative analysis to assess men's ( n = 45) responses to a writing assignment completed at the end of a solution-focused voluntary batterer intervention program. The study finds that the men primarily use the assignment to reassure themselves of their future success, defined through traditionally male paradigms. The narrative analysis then divides the letters according to type: Participants (22.7%) use a "transformative" discourse of behavior change and intimate partner violence (IPV)-sustaining discourse (18.2%), but the plurality (38.6%) use both simultaneously. The ideological conflict demonstrated in these responses highlights how IPV-sustaining discourse is embedded within broader sociocultural discursive structures.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1077-8012
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801218794296
ID  - ref1
ER  -