Resumen de The language of parole: sex offenders’ discourse strategy use in Indeterminate Sentence Review Board hearings
Effie Papatzikou Cochran, Cheryl Comeau-Kirschner
Discourse analysis of 19 video-recorded Indeterminate Sentence Review Board hearings in the State of Washington Department of Corrections revealed that sex offenders used 45 distinct linguistic strategies. We found that discourse strategy use among offenders who were subsequently paroled differed from those offenders who were subsequently not paroled. Offenders who were subsequently paroled used apology, withholding information, and topic management strategies; in contrast, offenders who were not subsequently paroled used minimization, denial, rejecting the Parole Board’s concern, courtesies, repair, self-repair and other repair, and use of “I mean” as turn-grabbing and forewarning strategies.
