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Kerby1998
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
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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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