Hester-Hester2015
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Hester-Hester2015 |
| Author(s) | Stephen Hester, Sally Hester |
| Title | Descriptions of deviance: making the case for professional help |
| Editor(s) | Baudouin Dupret, Michael Lynch, Tim Berard |
| Tag(s) | Ethnomethodology, Law, Deviance |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year | 2015 |
| Language | English |
| City | New York |
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| Pages | 241–271 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190210243.003.0011 |
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| Book title | Law at Work: Studies in Legal Ethnomethods |
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Abstract
Descriptions of deviance comprise a pivotal feature of work in settings concerned with the administration and enforcement of law. This chapter considers the case of referral meetings involving teachers and educational psychologists where children are discussed with the aim of producing a legally enforceable statement of their ‘special educational needs.’ Descriptions of deviance in this setting were both selective and recipient designed in the way they invoked the professional expertise of the psychologist to ‘make the case’ for legally accountable intervention and assessment. The accountably referable character of the cases for the psychologist was demonstrated in the ‘response’ phase of the meeting, rather than in the exchanges immediately following a description of a child. Speakers’ understandings of prior utterances often were evident in the ‘next turn,’ but this procedure was sometimes delayed until an institutionally appropriate place had been reached.
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