Recontextualistion in the police station

Recontextualisation involves repetition and change; it is central to police work. Officers routinely transform the words of the legal institution by explaining them to lay people and they routinely transform the words of lay people for institutional use. This thesis explores police officers’ transfo...

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Main Author: Rock, Frances Eileen
Published: University of Birmingham 2005
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.523334