Inside out or outside in?: Identity, narrative construction, and the negotiation of power in police interviews of police suspects.

Lead Research Organisation: Cardiff University
Department Name: Sch of English Communication and Philos

Abstract

Despite police misconduct, and therefore investigations into this misconduct, being part of police culture, there have been no academic studies (other than my own - Lukic, 2018) on the discourse of police interviews of police officers who have been accused of misconduct/crime (henceforth 'police suspects'). More specifically, there has never been a study on how a police suspect's dual identity may affect the narrative and linguistic choices of interlocutors in a police interrogation. My aim in this project is to investigate the complex relationship between identity, power, and narrative construction in the interrogation of police suspects.

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Studentship Projects

Project Reference Relationship Related To Start End Student Name
ES/P00069X/1 01/10/2017 30/09/2027
2268560 Studentship ES/P00069X/1 30/09/2019 15/11/2023 Mihaila Lukic