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The British Journal of Criminology 42:669-688 (2002)
© 2002 Centre for Crime & Justice Studies (formerly ISTD)

The ‘Process Structures’ of Police Homicide Investigations

Martin Innes*

*Martin Innes, Department. of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK; M.Innes{at}soc.surrey.ac.uk

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.


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