Publications

Publication details [#65401]

Aronsson, Karin and Anna Franzén. 2018. ‘Then she got a spanking’: Social accountability and narrative versions in social workers’ courtroom testimonies. Discourse Studies 20 (5) : 577–597.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | child | courtroom | narrative | testimony

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This case study – from a broad range of audio-recorded courtroom investigations – records how social workers’ opposing narrative versions about claimed domestic force (involving a child) are linked to different problem formulations.