Individual Violence Justification Strategies

Lamnek, Siegfried

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“…The techniques of neutralization that justify and rationalize deviant actions include the following: Denial of responsibility, of injury, and of victim status, as well as condemnation of the condemners, and an appeal to some higher authority. Such norms and values not only rationalize the "deviant" behavior but also prepare the groundwork for other such acts (Sykes & Matza, 1957; see also Lamnek, 2003).…”

Section: Responses To Other "Untoward" Acts: Cognitions Rationalizatmentioning

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What Were They Thinking? Men Who Murder an Intimate Partner

Dobash

2010

Violence Against Women

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The focus is on cognitions of men who murder an intimate partner and includes thinking prior to and after the murder. Based on the Murder in Britain Study, the qualitative accounts of various professionals included in the case-files of 104 men convicted of murdering a woman partner are used to examine beliefs about intimate relationships, orientations toward violence and previous violence to the victim, as well as subsequent denials, rationalizations, and justifications. We conclude that these and other cognitions are important elements of intimate partner murder and must be challenged and changed in efforts to eliminate nonlethal abuse and murder.

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What Were They Thinking? Men Who Murder an Intimate Partner

Dobash

2010

Violence Against Women

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“…Different cultures choose different moral principles to regulate behavior depending on ideology and religion (Graham & Haidt, 2010) and whether an action (such as spousal violence) is considered right or wrong depends largely on distinct motives for social relationship (Rai & Fiske, 2011). Moral judgments of perpetrators of violence are largely consistent with the sentiments and judgments of their cultural communities (Fiske & Rai, 2015), and violence in all forms and manifestations (including spousal violence) requires justifications and institutional or personal discourses that reduce the inhibitions against violence and rationalize its conduct (Lamnek, 2003). A person may deploy moral language to justify violence and appeal to others in a specific cultural context in such a way that the justification reveals the moral standards of the context or those to whom he or she appeals (see Fiske & Rai, 2015).…”

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“Correcting an Erring Wife Is Normal”: Moral Discourses of Spousal Violence in Ghana

Adjei

2015

J Interpers Violence

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This study draws insights from discursive psychology to explore moral discourses of spousal violence in Ghana. In particular, it investigates how sociocultural norms and practices are invoked in talk of perpetrators and victims as moral warrants for husband-to-wife abuse in Ghana. Semi-structured focus group and personal interviews were conducted with a total of 40 participants: 16 victims, 16 perpetrators, and eight key informants from rural and urban Ghana. Participants' discursive accounts suggest that husbands have implicit moral right and obligation to punish their wives for disobedience and other infractions against male authority in marriage. Both perpetrators and victims build their talk around familiar normative discourses and practices that provide tacit support for spousal violence in Ghana. While perpetrators mobilize culturally resonant and normative repertoires to justify abuse, blame their victims, and manage their moral accountability; victims position husband-to-wife abuse as normal, legitimate, disciplinary, and corrective. These moral discourses of spousal violence apparently serve to relieve perpetrators of moral agency; prime battered women to accept abuse; and devastate their agency to leave abusive marital relationships. The findings contribute to our understanding of how cultural and social norms of spousal violence are morally constituted, reproduced, and sustained in talk of perpetrators, victims, and other key members of society.

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“…Various studies dealing with the explanations given by men for their violent behavior toward their partners reveal the use of a variety of speech strategies. Some of these strategies are similar to those which were described here (Dobash & Dobash, 2011;Lamnek, 2003). Cavanagh et al (2001) based their work on the "remedial work" theory of Goffman (1971), according to which males try to reduce the negativity of their violent behavior by use of apologies, explanations and wishes ("You shouldn't interpret my behavior as aggression"), and in this way to neutralize the abusive experience.…”

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The Narrative of Men Who Murder Their Partners

Dilmon

Timor

2013

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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This article deals with the strategies the storyteller uses to influence the listener's perception and thinking. It is based on qualitative research, which examined the narratives of 12 men who killed their female partners. After entering prison, the murderer attempts to salvage some part of his social image. He does this using an assortment of means in two areas: the content of the narrative and its linguistic style. In terms of content, all the storytellers present themselves as extremely positive and their wives as very negative. With respect to language, the killers use verbs that distance them from responsibility, they hedge, repeat words and phrases to persuade, and use figures of speech they expect will impress their listeners. This artificial discourse is cunningly interwoven in terms of content and story art to recreate an alternative reality of a man who is normative and whom society can accept.

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Individual Violence Justification Strategies

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

What Were They Thinking? Men Who Murder an Intimate Partner

What Were They Thinking? Men Who Murder an Intimate Partner

“Correcting an Erring Wife Is Normal”: Moral Discourses of Spousal Violence in Ghana

The Narrative of Men Who Murder Their Partners

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