Kerby1998
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Kerby1998 |
| Author(s) | Joanne Kerby, John Rae |
| Title | Moral identity in action: Young offenders' reports of encounters with the police |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Identity, Morality, Police, Reports, Police Encounters |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Journal | British Journal of Social Psychology |
| Volume | 37 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 439–456 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.2044-8309.1998.tb01183.x |
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Abstract
Conversation is a site where social identities are achieved and negotiated (see for example Widdicombe & Wooffitt, 1995). We examine some ‘young offenders” reports of encounters with the police and analyse the identities and categorizations which are used or occasioned. Rather than looking for evidence of some kind of failure of moral reasoning we show that these reports involve detailed analyses of social situations. In particular we note that they contain reflexive analyses of how the speakers' moral identity is visible to the police, and that this serves as a resource to analyse the moral identity of the police.
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