Civil Disputes and Crime Recording
Refusals, Disinterest And Power In Police Witcraft
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8400502 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Lynn, Nicholas J Lynn (University of Plymouth, corresponding author), S J Lea, Susan Lea |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 361-380 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azr087 |
| OpenAlex | W1993549454 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 27 |
This paper explores the rhetorical skills or witcraft of police officers as they adjudicate on disputes and crimes reported to them. The first author accompanied officers ‘on the beat’ to record these interactions with members of the public. A discourse analysis of the data revealed officers regularly use a discursive strategy that we term the that’s civil device. Exploiting an epistemological imbalance that exists in police/public interactions, the device not only allows officers to externalize their judgments as matters of law; it also assists them to manage the conversationally and operationally difficult task of refusing. Moreover, it allows officers to resist claims of disinterestedness or neglect of duty as they limit or disbar their involvement in potentially insoluble disputes.
Adjudication · Criminology · Duty · Neglect · Political science · Power (physics) · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Task (project management) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Engineering · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |