The media as an investigative resource in murder enquiries

This article examines how the police seek to use the media in an instrumental fashion, as an investigative resource in murder enquiries. The majority of murders are comparatively easy for the police to solve. There are however, a small number of particularly serious and difficult to solve murders an...

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1. VerfasserIn: Innes, Martin (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch/Druck Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 1999
In: The British journal of criminology
Jahr: 1999, Band: 39, Heft: 2, Seiten: 269-286
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England
Tötungsdelikte
Polizei
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Polizeiliches Ermittlungsverfahren
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Kriminalberichterstattung
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Zusammenfassung:This article examines how the police seek to use the media in an instrumental fashion, as an investigative resource in murder enquiries. The majority of murders are comparatively easy for the police to solve. There are however, a small number of particularly serious and difficult to solve murders and it is during investigations into these types of crime that the police may employ a range of tactics to use the media as part of their wider investigative strategy. A discussion of police media strategies is provided and decisions about their strategic deployment are linked to the structural concerns of the police and media organizations
ISSN:0007-0955
DOI:10.1093/bjc/39.2.269