RT Article
T1 The 'process structures' of police homicide investigations
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 42
IS 4
SP 669
OP 688
A1 Innes, Martin
LA English
YR 2002
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1639315187
AB This paper discusses how a fairly standardized sequence of actions performed by police detectives can be understood as a form of social process and seen to be productive of an incident of homicide as a meaningful' event. The particular focus is upon how three key factors - the law as a mode of rationality; the organizational properties of the police service; and the circumstances surrounding the incident under investigation - shape the actions performed by individual officers, and in doing so constitute a process structure
K1 Polizeiliches Ermittlungsverfahren
K1 Tötungsdelikte