The Language of Police Interviewing: A Critical Analysis

by Georgina Heydon

Book Overview

Police interviewing is a critical part of the justice process, and more attention is now being paid to training in interview techniques. This new study uses tools drawn from interactional sociolinguistics and conversation analysis for a detailed study of some police questioning of adult suspects, and work undertaken in the training of police in interviewing children - in which quite different approaches seem to be adopted. Critical discourse analytic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403917264
• ISBN13: 9781403917263
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.8"