Police interviews with suspects in police stations in England
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...Police questioning in England seems to involve devices or ethnomethods (Garfinkel, 1967) that are much subtler and more refined than the tactics often associated with interrogations and which are legally prohibited....
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...Sociologists have been aware of the importance of accounts since the late 1960’s, when more attention began to be given to talk, considering it as a fundamental and constitutive material of social life (Garfinkel, 1967; Sacks, 1992)....
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...Indeed, it was doing his seminal work on jury deliberations that Harold Garfinkel coined the term ‘ethnomethodology’ in order to characterize the study of the methods jurors use to decide legal cases (Garfinkel, 1967)....
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...In fact, Sacks seemed much more interested in studying the general issues of ordinary social interaction (ten Have, 2007), which resulted in a series of studies which were focused on the ‘systematics of ordinary conversation’ (Sacks et al., 1974)....
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...As Sacks (1992) had previously noticed, one is given partial control of the conversation by being in the position of asking the questions....
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...Put another way, by using particular descriptive devices and resources, suspects manage to exhibit rather than claim that their actions were not intentional (Drew, 1992; Sacks, 1992)....
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...In these interviews, police officers are monitoring the coherence and consistency of suspects’ accounts based on commonsense knowledge of social structures (Komter, 2003; Sacks, 1992), and these sense-making procedures are essential for them to bring the incongruencies of these accounts on to the surface of talk and build evidence for a potential prosecution....
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...Sociologists have been aware of the importance of accounts since the late 1960’s, when more attention began to be given to talk, considering it as a fundamental and constitutive material of social life (Garfinkel, 1967; Sacks, 1992)....
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