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The suspect's statement : talk and text in the criminal process / Martha Komter.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 33.Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019Copyright date: �2019Description: 1 online resource (xi, 207 pages) : illustrations (black and white)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781108605731
  • 1108605737
  • 9781107445062
  • 110744506X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Suspect's statement.DDC classification:
  • 345/.052 23
LOC classification:
  • K5401 .K66 2019
Online resources: Summary: 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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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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