University of Chicago Press, 2020 Cloth: 978-0-226-64765-4 | Paper: 978-0-226-64779-1 | eISBN: 978-0-226-64782-1 Library of Congress Classification HV8073.3.D57 2019 Dewey Decimal Classification 363.254
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Forensic linguistics, or the study of language and the law, is a growing field of scholarly and public interest with an established research presence. The Discourse of Police Interviews aims to further the discussion by analyzing how police interviews are constructed and used to investigate and prosecute crimes.
The first book to focus exclusively on the discourses of police interviewing, 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. 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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Marianne Mason is associate professor of translation and interpreting studies and linguistics at James Madison University. She is the author of Courtroom Interpreting. Frances Rock is a reader in the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University and a founding member of the forensic linguistics research network Cardiff Language and Law.
REVIEWS
“The Discourse of Police Interviews is poised to make an important contribution to forensic discourse analysis and language study. The book is useful in that it brings many approaches to and analyses of policing and police discourse in one place, making it useful for teaching and research alike. The topic is timely, the chapters are well written, and the analyses are tight and compelling and sophisticated while remaining clear.”
— Jennifer Andrus, University of Utah
“To my knowledge, there are no other edited volumes devoted exclusively to the discourse of police interviews and interrogations. This book is thus essential reading for scholars and students of language and the law. All of the chapters are empirically grounded, drawing their data from actual police interviews and interrogations. A number of the chapters investigate what the editors refer to as the ‘institutionally endorsed’ methods and techniques; others examine specific discursive practices that have an influence on the kind of ‘evidence’ to emerge from police interviews/interrogations, including the way that police officers and interpreters can shape the trajectory of these interactions. Still others examine the changes that occur when police interviews are transformed into written police records, records which in some jurisdictions play a substantive role in trials.”
— Susan Ehrlich, York University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Conventions
Chapter 1. Introduction
Marianne Mason
Section 1. The Discourse of Reid and PEACE
Chapter 2. When Police Interview Victims of Sexual Assault: Comparing Written Guidance to Interactional Practice
Elizabeth Stokoe, Charles Antaki, Emma Richardson, and Sara Willott
Chapter 3. Obtaining Valid Discourse from Suspects PEACE-fully: What Role for Rapport and Empathy?
Ray Bull and Bianca Baker
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
Marianne Mason
Chapter 5. The Discourse Structure of Blame Mitigation in a Police Interrogation
Philip Gaines
Section 2. Police Interview Dynamics and Negotiation
Chapter 6. Now the Rest of the Story: The Collaborative Production of Confession Narratives in Police Interrogations
Gary C. David and James Trainum
Chapter 7. Patterns of Cooperation between Police Interviewers with Suspected Sex Offenders
Tatiana Tkacukova and Gavin E. Oxburgh
Chapter 8. Supporting Competing Narratives: A Membership Categorization Analysis of Identity Work in Police-Detainee Talk
David Yoong and Ayeshah Syed
Section 3. Discursive Transformations in Bilingual Police Interviews
Chapter 9. Narrative Construction in Interpreted Police Interviews
Ikuko Nakane
Chapter 10. Interactional Management in a Simulated Police Interview: Interpreters’ Strategies
Sandra Hale, Jane Goodman-Delahunty, and Natalie Martschuk
Chapter 11. Non-Native Speakers, Miranda Rights, and Custodial Interrogation
Bethany K. Dumas
Section 4. The Discursive Journey and Institutional Applications of Police Interviews
Chapter 12. “Tell Me in Your Own Words…”: Reconciling Institutional Salience and Witness-Compatible Language in Police Interviews with Women Reporting Rape
Nicci MacLeod
Chapter 13. “Are You Saying You Were Stabbed . . . ?”: Multimodality, Embodied Action, and Dramatized Formulations in “Fixing” the Facts in Police Interviews with Suspects
Alison Johnson
Chapter 14. Functions of Transmodal Metalanguage for Collaborative Writing in Police-Witness Interviews
Frances Rock
Chapter 15. Reconstructing Suspects’ Stories in Various Police Record Styles
Tessa (T. C.) van Charldorp
Chapter 16. Police Records in Court: The Narrative Fore- and Backgrounding of Information by Judges in Inquisitorial Criminal Court
Fleur van der Houwen
Index
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University of Chicago Press, 2020 Cloth: 978-0-226-64765-4 Paper: 978-0-226-64779-1 eISBN: 978-0-226-64782-1
Forensic linguistics, or the study of language and the law, is a growing field of scholarly and public interest with an established research presence. The Discourse of Police Interviews aims to further the discussion by analyzing how police interviews are constructed and used to investigate and prosecute crimes.
The first book to focus exclusively on the discourses of police interviewing, 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. 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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Marianne Mason is associate professor of translation and interpreting studies and linguistics at James Madison University. She is the author of Courtroom Interpreting. Frances Rock is a reader in the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University and a founding member of the forensic linguistics research network Cardiff Language and Law.
REVIEWS
“The Discourse of Police Interviews is poised to make an important contribution to forensic discourse analysis and language study. The book is useful in that it brings many approaches to and analyses of policing and police discourse in one place, making it useful for teaching and research alike. The topic is timely, the chapters are well written, and the analyses are tight and compelling and sophisticated while remaining clear.”
— Jennifer Andrus, University of Utah
“To my knowledge, there are no other edited volumes devoted exclusively to the discourse of police interviews and interrogations. This book is thus essential reading for scholars and students of language and the law. All of the chapters are empirically grounded, drawing their data from actual police interviews and interrogations. A number of the chapters investigate what the editors refer to as the ‘institutionally endorsed’ methods and techniques; others examine specific discursive practices that have an influence on the kind of ‘evidence’ to emerge from police interviews/interrogations, including the way that police officers and interpreters can shape the trajectory of these interactions. Still others examine the changes that occur when police interviews are transformed into written police records, records which in some jurisdictions play a substantive role in trials.”
— Susan Ehrlich, York University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Conventions
Chapter 1. Introduction
Marianne Mason
Section 1. The Discourse of Reid and PEACE
Chapter 2. When Police Interview Victims of Sexual Assault: Comparing Written Guidance to Interactional Practice
Elizabeth Stokoe, Charles Antaki, Emma Richardson, and Sara Willott
Chapter 3. Obtaining Valid Discourse from Suspects PEACE-fully: What Role for Rapport and Empathy?
Ray Bull and Bianca Baker
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
Marianne Mason
Chapter 5. The Discourse Structure of Blame Mitigation in a Police Interrogation
Philip Gaines
Section 2. Police Interview Dynamics and Negotiation
Chapter 6. Now the Rest of the Story: The Collaborative Production of Confession Narratives in Police Interrogations
Gary C. David and James Trainum
Chapter 7. Patterns of Cooperation between Police Interviewers with Suspected Sex Offenders
Tatiana Tkacukova and Gavin E. Oxburgh
Chapter 8. Supporting Competing Narratives: A Membership Categorization Analysis of Identity Work in Police-Detainee Talk
David Yoong and Ayeshah Syed
Section 3. Discursive Transformations in Bilingual Police Interviews
Chapter 9. Narrative Construction in Interpreted Police Interviews
Ikuko Nakane
Chapter 10. Interactional Management in a Simulated Police Interview: Interpreters’ Strategies
Sandra Hale, Jane Goodman-Delahunty, and Natalie Martschuk
Chapter 11. Non-Native Speakers, Miranda Rights, and Custodial Interrogation
Bethany K. Dumas
Section 4. The Discursive Journey and Institutional Applications of Police Interviews
Chapter 12. “Tell Me in Your Own Words…”: Reconciling Institutional Salience and Witness-Compatible Language in Police Interviews with Women Reporting Rape
Nicci MacLeod
Chapter 13. “Are You Saying You Were Stabbed . . . ?”: Multimodality, Embodied Action, and Dramatized Formulations in “Fixing” the Facts in Police Interviews with Suspects
Alison Johnson
Chapter 14. Functions of Transmodal Metalanguage for Collaborative Writing in Police-Witness Interviews
Frances Rock
Chapter 15. Reconstructing Suspects’ Stories in Various Police Record Styles
Tessa (T. C.) van Charldorp
Chapter 16. Police Records in Court: The Narrative Fore- and Backgrounding of Information by Judges in Inquisitorial Criminal Court
Fleur van der Houwen
Index
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