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The Suspect's Statement: Talk and Text in the Criminal Process (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics): Series Number 33 - Hardcover

Book 27 of 31: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics

Komter, Martha

 
9781107059481: The Suspect's Statement: Talk and Text in the Criminal Process (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics): Series Number 33

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

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).

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