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|Abstract=Over the past decade, considerable efforts have been made to ensure that domestic violence and child protection issues are identified, assessed, and managed appropriately within the family justice system. These efforts follow sustained criticism that allegations of harm have been previously overlooked or marginalised within court processes, including in private law cases concerning residence and contact disputes following parental separation. In this article, however, we argue that allegations of harm continue to be marginalised in court-based dispute resolution. Our findings are based on a detailed study of 15 in-court conciliation or court-based dispute resolution sessions. We use conversation analysis to examine in detail precisely how allegations are overlooked or downgraded. We find that conciliators routinely ignore, reframe, or reject allegations unless there is an existing external evidence to support the claim. However, the precise way in which marginalisation occurs is contextual and interactional, shaped not least by the specificity or persistence of allegations presented by parents. We suggest that the conciliator's handling of allegations reflects a particular understanding of their institutional role and tasks that centre upon settlement, contact, and case processing seemingly at the expense of risk management.
appropriately within the family justice system. These efforts follow sustained
 
criticism that allegations of harm have been previously overlooked or marginalised
 
within court processes, including in private law cases concerning residence and
 
contact disputes following parental separation. In this article, however, we argue
 
that allegations of harm continue to be marginalised in court-based dispute
 
resolution. Our findings are based on a detailed study of 15 in-court conciliation
 
or court-based dispute resolution sessions. We use conversation analysis to
 
examine in detail precisely how allegations are overlooked or downgraded. We
 
find that conciliators routinely ignore, reframe, or reject allegations unless there
 
is an existing external evidence to support the claim. However, the precise way in
 
which marginalisation occurs is contextual and interactional, shaped not least by
 
the specificity or persistence of allegations presented by parents. We suggest that
 
the conciliator's handling of allegations reflects a particular understanding of
 
their institutional role and tasks that centre upon settlement, contact, and case
 
processing seemingly at the expense of risk management.
 
 
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Author(s) Liz Trinder, Alan Firth, Christopher Jenks
Title “So presumably things have moved on since then?” The management of risk allegations in child contact dispute resolution
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Volume 24
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Pages 29–53
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Over the past decade, considerable efforts have been made to ensure that domestic violence and child protection issues are identified, assessed, and managed appropriately within the family justice system. These efforts follow sustained criticism that allegations of harm have been previously overlooked or marginalised within court processes, including in private law cases concerning residence and contact disputes following parental separation. In this article, however, we argue that allegations of harm continue to be marginalised in court-based dispute resolution. Our findings are based on a detailed study of 15 in-court conciliation or court-based dispute resolution sessions. We use conversation analysis to examine in detail precisely how allegations are overlooked or downgraded. We find that conciliators routinely ignore, reframe, or reject allegations unless there is an existing external evidence to support the claim. However, the precise way in which marginalisation occurs is contextual and interactional, shaped not least by the specificity or persistence of allegations presented by parents. We suggest that the conciliator's handling of allegations reflects a particular understanding of their institutional role and tasks that centre upon settlement, contact, and case processing seemingly at the expense of risk management.

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