Police Interrogation, Language, and the Law: The Invocation Game - Hardcover

Marianne Mason

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1316511529 ISBN 13: 9781316511527

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Recent calls for justice reform have put a spotlight on how the police enforce the law in the United States. How a person's constitutional rights may be legally thwarted during police interrogation, however, has not been part of any meaningful discussion on police reform. This novel book examines the intersections of the law and policing discourse through the detailed analysis of a large corpus of United States federal court rulings, starting with Miranda v. Arizona (1966). It covers a wide range of topics, including the history of police interrogation in the United States, the role of federal law in handicapping a person's ability to invoke their right to counsel, and the invocation game of police interrogation that may lead a variety of suspects to change their discursive preferences. It highlights the need for American police interrogation reform, exploring the paths taken by other jurisdictions outside of the United States. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available on open access. Check our website, Cambridge Core, for details.

About this title

About the Author

Marianne Mason is an Associate Professor at James Madison University. Notable publications include The Discourse of Police Interviews (co-edited, 2020) and Courtroom Interpreting (2008). In 2018, she received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1316511529
• ISBN 13: 9781316511527
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 214