RT Article
T1  The tellability of police use-of-force: how police tell Stories of critical incidents in different contexts
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 58
IS 1
SP 37
OP 53
A1 Schaefer, Brian P.
A2 Tewksbury, Richard A.
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1575996545
AB Critical incidents involving police use-of-force brings forth external critique to the police institution and to police officers. Building on previous research on ideas of emotions and tellability, the present paper examines the role of police storytelling of critical incidents in different spaces. Stories of critical incidents told by police focus on reinforcing the police’s singular right to use force and to interpret use-of-force events. However, stories in the canteen do not question police action and seek to separate out officers who fail to support the in-group, while stories in the squad car provide space for confidants to privately critique these events and provide a more nuanced view of use-of-force. The study concludes by discussing the implications of the findings.
K1 Police storytelling
K1 Tellability
K1 Critical incidents
K1 Use-of-force
K1 Polizeiarbeit
K1 Polizeiliche Kommunikation
K1 Unzuverlässiges Erzählen
K1 Narrative
K1 Police accountability
DO 10.1093/bjc/azx006