Organizational communication and the symbolic construction of police murder investigations |
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Authors: | Innes Martin |
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Affiliation: | Department of Sociology, University of Surrey. |
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Abstract: | This paper draws upon a range of empirical data to consider the ways in which police murder investigations are symbolically constructed, both within and outside of the police organization. It is argued that a range of communicative formats serve to produce the activities associated with police murder investigations in a way that serves to legitimate the police function to both members of the public and police officers alike. A particular emphasis is placed upon understanding the connections between informal and formal communications, and the instrumental and expressive objectives that variously underpin them. |
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Keywords: | Murder investigation policing organizational communication distancing strategies symbolic interactionism |
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