Citation

Innes M. Br. J. Criminol. 2002; 42(4): 669-688.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Publisher Oxford University Press)

DOI

10.1093/bjc/42.4.669

PMID

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Abstract

This paper discusses how a fairly standardized sequence of actions performed by police detectives can be understood as a form of social process and seen to be productive of an incident of homicide as a meaningful' event. The particular focus is upon how three key factors--the law as a mode of rationality; the organizational properties of the police service; and the circumstances surrounding the incident under investigation--shape the actions performed by individual officers, and in doing so constitute a process structure.