The 'process structures' of police homicide investigations
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...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electronic/Print Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2002
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The British journal of criminology
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Volltext (doi) |
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| Sumario: | 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 |
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| ISSN: | 0007-0955 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/bjc/42.4.669 |