Racial Violence in ‘Action’: Police Storytelling and Narrativisation in the Inquiry of Jermaine Baker
Police tell stories not only to make sense of their experiences but also, as this paper argues, they tell stories to establish legal doctrines and support justifications for their decisions. Departing from police ethnography and narrative criminology, adopting a deconstructive and critical Black Stu...
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The British journal of criminology
Year: 2025, Volume: 65, Issue: 3, Pages: 658-672 |
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