Martha Komter

The Suspect's Statement

Talk and Text in the Criminal Process

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how suspect statements are elicited in police interrogations, written down and transformed into a document that is cited in court.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781107059481
• ISBN-10: 1107059488
• Artikelnr.: 53448924

Autorenporträt

Martha Komter is research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam. Her research interests include interaction in institutional settings, such as job interviews, courtroom interaction and police interrogations. She has published widely on these themes, and is author of Conflict and Cooperation in Job Interviews: A Study of Talk, Tasks, and Ideas (1991) and Dilemma's in the Courtroom: A Study of Trials of Violent Crime in the Netherlands (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The police interrogation: the talk, the typing and the text
3. The police report: the document, the text and the talk
4. The trial: documents in action
5. The career of a suspect's statement
6. Conclusion and discussion.