31.1791, Books: The Suspect's Statement: Komter

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Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 11:41:53
From: Dan Iredale [diredale at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Suspect's Statement: Komter

 


Title: The Suspect's Statement 
Subtitle: Talk and Text in the Criminal Process 
Series Title: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/suspects-statement-talk-and-text-criminal-process?format=HB 


Author: Martha Komter

Electronic: ISBN:  9781108605731 Pages: 218 Price: U.S. $ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107059481 Pages: 218 Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107059481 Pages: 218 Price: U.K. £ 80.00


Abstract:

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.

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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