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|BibType=ARTICLE<br />
|Author(s)=Fabio Ferraz de Almeida; Paul Drew<br />
|Title=The fabric of law-in-action: ‘formulating’ the<br />
suspect’s account during police interviews in<br />
England<br />
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Police; Interview; Formulation; Questioning; Law; Law in action<br />
|Key=DeAlmeida2020<br />
|Year=2020<br />
|Language=English<br />
|Journal=The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law<br />
|Volume=27<br />
|Number=1<br />
|Pages=35-58<br />
|URL=https://journals.equinoxpub.com/IJSLL/article/viewFile/38527/38962<br />
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.38527<br />
|Abstract=This article reports findings from a study of police interviews of people suspected of<br />
having committed relatively minor criminal offences, in a police station in England.<br />
The data comprise audio-recorded investigative interviews which were analysed using conversation analysis. It is focused on a communicative practice employed by<br />
police officers while questioning suspects. This practice is to ‘formulate’ what the suspect has just said; formulations are a means of summarising the suspect’s evidence<br />
in a particular phase of questioning, in such a way as to represent the suspect’s own<br />
words. Formulations, as a practice in talk-in-interaction, enable police officers to a)<br />
summarise the upshot of what a suspect has said during a period or phase of questioning, b) attribute this summary directly to a suspect’s ‘own words’, c) construct a<br />
suspect’s account (confirmation) as legally relevant, and which can d) elicit from the<br />
suspect a form of admission. Formulations are employed as a mechanism to rework<br />
prior descriptions and utterances by transforming and elaborating them and consolidating their legal relevance. Through this practice, police officers manage to attribute<br />
legal labels to what suspects have said during the interview, to their evidence (e.g. as<br />
denying, admitting, telling, etc.) as well as to the character of the incidents or events<br />
in question (e.g. assault, breach of harassment warning, criminal damage, arson).<br />
Formulating, therefore, is an interactional practice through which key legal work is<br />
accomplished in police interviews with suspects in England. It is a device that constitutes the fabric of law-in-action.<br />
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