TY  - BOOK
AU  - Komter,Martha
TI  - The suspect's statement: talk and text in the criminal process 
T2  - Studies in interactional sociolinguistics
SN  - 9781108605731
AV  - K5401 .K66 2019
U1  - 345/.052 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Criminal procedure
KW  - Criminal investigation
KW  - Police questioning
KW  - Due process of law
KW  - LAW / Criminal Law / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes
N2  - What suspects tell the police may become a crucial piece of evidence when the case comes to court. But what happens to 'the suspect's statement' when it is written down by the police? Based on a unique set of data from over fifteen years' worth of research, Martha Komter examines the trajectory of the suspect's statement from the police interrogation through to the trial. She shows how the suspect's statement is elicited and written down in the police report, how this police report both represents and differs from the original talk in the interrogation, and how it is quoted and referred to in court. The analyses cover interactions in multiple settings, with documents that link one interaction to the next, providing insights into the interactional and documentary foundations of the criminal process and, more generally, into the construction, character and uses of documents in institutional settings
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