Rhetoric and Communication Perspectives on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

<p>This book brings rhetorical legal and professional communication perspectives to the discourse surrounding policy-making efforts within the United States around two types of violent crimes against women: domestic violence and sexual assault. The authors propose that such analysis adds to our understanding of rhetorical concepts such as <i>kairos</i> risk perception moral panic genre analysis and identity theory. Overall the goal is to demonstrate how rhetorical legal and professional communication perspectives work together to illuminate public discourse and conflict in such complicated and ongoing dilemmas as how to aid victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and how to manage the offenders of such crimes—social and cultural problems that continue to perplex the legal system and the social environment. </p>