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This article utilises critical discourse theory and builds upon my previous work concerning 'misogyny' and hate crime (McGuire, 2021). Below focuses on several different themes regarding the difficulty of using 'Misogyny': the role of discourse, not least the difficulty in legally defining violence against women; the perception of 'Misogyny', including the different interpretations and the confusion regarding this term; that the term 'Misogyny' enables and encourages resistance, and undermines any intended political goal. Thus, it argues that it would be preferable to avoid the term 'Misogyny' when engaging with violence against women. The article utilises first-hand experience of resistance to the term Misogyny and relates this to existing academic work in a number of areas, including work on Incels. Critical discourse theory has been employed to analyse whether misogyny would prove a useful term to help protect women, and indeed, why there has been so much resistance to the term. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using a synthesis of documentary analysis and interviews involving former detainees, this article explores the sociology of denial in relation to narratives of state violence which emerged from the conflict in and around Northern Ireland. It argues that three interrelated levels of denial described by Cohen (2001) - literal, interpretive and implicatory - can be observed within the 'official discourse' surrounding the conflict, and that these denials are experienced by former detainees in diverse and different ways. The article contributes to the literature on state violence within the discipline of criminology through its exploration of the lived consequences of state denial narratives alongside former detainees who have made their private experiences of victimhood part of a contested public history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]