The Discourse of Police Interviews / Marianne Mason, Frances Rock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mason, Marianne, Editor.

Rock, Frances, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police questioning.

Reid technique.

Interviewing in law enforcement.

Criminal investigation--Language.

Criminal investigation.

Forensic linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Forensic linguistics, or the study of language and the law, is a growing field of scholarly and public interest. Yet books on the subject have predominantly been introductions to the field or aimed at summarizing its applications, often with a focus on a single aspect of the legal system. The Discourse of Police Interviews aims to further the discussion by focusing exclusively on how police interviews are constructed and used to investigate and prosecute crimes. The first book to focus exclusively on police interview dialogue, The Discourse of Police Interviews examines leading debates, approaches, and topics in contemporary police interview research. Among other topics, the book explores the sociolegal, psychological, and discursive framework of popular police interview techniques employed in the United States and the United Kingdom, such as PEACE and Reid, and the discursive practices of institutional representatives like police officers and interpreters that can influence the construction and quality of linguistic evidence. Together, the contributions situate the police interview as part of a complex, and multistage, criminal justice process. Despite the role of discourse in potentially shaping legal outcomes, the use of linguistic analysis to understand the legal process is yet to be fully and uniformly embraced, and the book will be of interest to both scholars and practitioners in a variety of fields, such as linguistic anthropology, interpreting studies, criminology, law, and sociology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Conventions

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. When Police Interview Victims of Sexual Assault: Comparing Written Guidance to Interactional Practice

Chapter 3. Obtaining Valid Discourse from Suspects PEACE-fully: What Role for Rapport and Empathy?

Chapter 4. The Guilt- Presumptive Nature of Custodial Interrogations in the United States: The Use of Confrontation, Appeals to Self- Interest, and Sympathy/ Minimization in the Reid Technique

Chapter 5. The Discourse Structure of Blame Mitigation in a Police Interrogation

Chapter 6. Now the Rest of the Story: The Collaborative Production of Confession Narratives in Police Interrogations

Chapter 7. Patterns of Cooperation between Police Interviewers with Suspected Sex Offenders

Chapter 8. Supporting Competing Narratives: A Membership Categorization Analysis of Identity Work in Police-Detainee Talk

Chapter 9. Narrative Construction in Interpreted Police Interviews

Chapter 10. Interactional Management in a Simulated Police Interview: Interpreters' Strategies

Chapter 11. Non-Native Speakers, Miranda Rights, and Custodial Interrogation

Chapter 12. "Tell Me in Your Own Words . . .": Reconciling Institutional Salience and Witness- Compatible Language in Police Interviews with Women Reporting Rape

Chapter 13. "Are You Saying You Were Stabbed . . . ?": Multimodality, Embodied Action, and Dramatized Formulations in "Fixing" the Facts in Police Interviews with Suspects

Chapter 14. Functions of Transmodal Metalanguage for Collaborative Writing in Police- Witness Interviews

Chapter 15. Reconstructing Suspects' Stories in Various Police Record Styles

Chapter 16. Police Records in Court: The Narrative Fore- and Backgrounding of Information by Judges in Inquisitorial Criminal Court

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226647821

022664782X

OCLC:

1149416664